Tue 29 March 2022: Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad on Tuesday announced that the discussion on the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan will start in the National Assembly on March 31 and voting on it will be held on April 3. The Minister gave the information while addressing a press conference in […]
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Tue 29 March 2022: China said Monday that the West has applied “double standards” by catering to the human rights of people fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war but by ignoring those of refugees from countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. “I want to stress that the international community should not adopt a double […]
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Mon 28 March 2022: The opposition alliance in Pakistan on Monday submitted a no-confidence motion in the lower house of parliament against Prime Minister Imran Khan. The motion signed by some 152 opposition members contending that the prime minister has lost the confidence of the parliament, was moved by the Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif amid […]
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Mon 28 March 2022: Forest loss in India could become an even bigger problem than anticipated in the coming years, with new research revealing climate change has caused significant recent losses. The first ever national-scale study of the relationship between forest loss and rainfall and temperature trends in India, led by the University of Reading, revealed they may have […]
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Sun 27 March 2022: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday revealed that “foreign elements” are involved in the attempts to topple his government and said, “some of our own people” are being used in this regard. The premier was speaking during one of the “biggest” rallies in his party’s history at the Parade Ground in Islamabad […]
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Sun 27 March 2022: Increasingly isolated on the world stage, Myanmar’s deepening Russia ties will be on display at annual Armed Forces Day event. Myanmar’s military usually marks Armed Forces Day with a grand parade in the country’s capital as commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing – in full regalia – inspects his troops from […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was “increasingly real”, while welcoming a visit by the United States ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer a nuclear attack. Japan, the only country attacked by atomic weapons, has regularly spoken out against nuclear armaments. Kishida, […]
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Fri 25 March 2022: A senior White House official said on Friday that India’s UN stance on the Ukraine situation was “unsatisfactory,” but that this was unsurprising given the country’s history with Russia. Mira Rapp-Hooper, director for the Indo-Pacific on the White House National Security Council, told an online forum hosted by Washington’s School of […]
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Fri 25 March 2022: Rights group slams India’s repeated denial of bail to Umar Khalid, who is accused of ‘conspiracy’ behind Delhi riots and charged under UAPA. New Delhi, India – Rights group Amnesty International has described India’s repeated denial of bail to jailed Muslim activist Umar Khalid as a “big blow” to those exercising their […]
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Fri 25 March 2022: Turkey has urged the Taliban government of Afghanistan to allow girls of all ages to pursue their education in the country, as the group’s leadership yesterday imposed limits on girls’ access to education based on their age. Educational institutions in Afghanistan were officially re-opened yesterday, seven months after the Taliban took […]
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