Qaisar Mansoor On the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, Pakistan reiterated its commitment to continuing working with the UN for advancing the shared ideals of peace, stability and cooperation. UN designates 29 May as ‘International Day of UN Peacekeepers’ in commemoration of the day in 1948
Guwahati: The Assam Police have detained 26 Myanmar nationals after they entered the Assam state. 26 Rohingya Muslims reached in the state’s capital Guwahati in a train from occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Assam police arrested them when they entered the Silchar city in a car. Many Rohingyas
Bihar: In Indian State of Bihar, a 16-year-old Muslim girl was raped, tortured and murdered by village head, his brother and accomplices. The victim’s family said that the local authorities and police are protecting the accused and have manipulated the post-mortem report for the same. She went
New Delhi: Three men stole and sold 40 luxury cars in a grand heist using a software-based hacking device after being inspired by Hollywood series Fast and Furious, reported Hindustan Times. Police identified the trio as Manish Rao (42), Jagdeep Sharma (43), and Aas Mohammad (40). Deputy
London: A Conservative lawmaker submitted a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson on Friday and another quit a role as an assistant to Britain’s interior minister, putting new pressure on the prime minister over illegal parties at his Downing Street residence during COVID-19 lockdowns. Bob
Khartoum: Sudanese women's activist Amira Osman Hamed has won a Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, the organisation announced. The activist and engineer, now in her forties, has been advocating for Sudanese women for two decades, and was detained this year in
Moscow: Two Communist lawmakers in Russia’s far east urged President Vladimir Putin to put an end to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine in a rare public show of dissent. Despite thousands of people having been killed and wounded during Russia’s three-month military campaign in Ukraine, Putin has
Kabul: The Taliban rejected the UN Security Council's call to reverse heavy restrictions imposed on Afghan women, dismissing their concerns as "unfounded". The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday that criticised the Taliban for limiting girls' and women's access to education, government jobs and
Texas: The husband of a heroic fourth grade teacher who was killed protecting her students during a massacre at a Texas elementary school has died of an apparent heart attack. A GoFundMe page set up by Debra Austin, who said she was the cousin of teacher
Jerusalem: A Palestinian teenager was shot by Israeli troops near the town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank and died of his wounds, the Palestinian health ministry said. Zayd Mohammed Ghouneim was shot in the back and neck and died in hospital, a ministry statement