Mon 20 January 2020: Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish bin of the world can “dream on.” Shipments of unwanted rubbish have been rerouted […]
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Sun 19 January 2019: Hamid Ansari said that good laws are made when parliament and assemblies are not called to endorse the views of the ruler of the day. New Delhi: When parliament makes bad laws, they end up in courts where judges do what the lawmakers should be doing, former Vice President Hamid Ansari […]
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Sat 18 January 2020: Pakistan’s foreign minister, who has shuttled between Washington and Tehran in the course of a week, voiced confidence Friday that Iran was seeking to lower tensions. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi discussed Iran and Afghanistan’s peace process Friday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, five days after seeing Iranian President […]
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Raveesh Kumar, spokesman for the Indian Foreign Ministry Thu 16 January 2020: India said Thursday that Pakistan’s prime minister will be invited to the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar told reporters: “All eight members of SCO as well as four observer states and other international dialogue […]
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Tue 14 January 2020: India’s most popular Muslim televangelist Dr Zakir Naik – who has been living in self-exile in Malaysia since 2016 – has confirmed that an emissary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered him a “safe passage to India” in return for supporting the BJP government’s revocation of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K)’s […]
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Mon 13 January 2020: (REUTERS) Indian palm oil importers have effectively stopped all purchases from Malaysia after the government privately warned them to shun product from the country following a diplomatic spat, industry and government sources said. The warning, issued last week, comes almost in parallel with New Delhi’s move to restrict imports of refined […]
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Sun 12 January 2020: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi left for Tehran on Sunday to discuss the ongoing situation in the Middle East with the Iranian authorities and plead the case for de-escalation in the region. According to an official statement released by the country’s foreign ministry in Islamabad on Saturday night, Qureshi […]
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Sat 11 January 2020: A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer and at least 11 others, police said. The bombing also wounded 11 other worshipers in the city of Quetta, the capital of the restive Baluchistan province, said local police chief Mohammad Ajmal. […]
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Kashmiri journalists protest against the communication blackout in Srinagar, Fri 10 January 2020: India’s Supreme Court said on Friday that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional in a rebuke for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The government imposed a communications lockdown in August after it withdrew the Muslim majority […]
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Tue 07 January 2020: Iran has vowed retaliation for the US’ airstrike against Soleimani in Iraq, but experts say the hardline Shiite regime in Tehran is not in a position to directly confront Washington. Instead, it could attempt to harm US interests in the Middle East, as well as Afghanistan, they say. The Afghan government said Friday it was […]
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