Fri 21 February 2020: Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid called Thursday for greater trade and investment with Turkey to explore the potentials of the two countries in various sectors. “There is enormous scope for exploring the commerce and investment potentials between the two countries, but this is yet to reflect reality,” he said. Hamid made the […]
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Tue 18 February 2020: Due to the internet shutdown and communications blockade, telecom companies have lost 1.4 million subscribers in Indian-administered Kashmir, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The data accessed by Anadolu Agency shows that through last November, the telecom sector recorded negative growth of 12.59% in the region, with 1.46 […]
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Mon 17 February 2020: The United Nations urged India to fully respect human rights in the disputed Kashmir region and stressed a dialogue between Pakistan and India to resolve the decadeslong dispute. U.N. chief Antonio Guterres began a four-day visit to Islamabad on Sunday by underlining his fears about tensions between the South Asian nuclear-armed […]
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Mon 17 February 2020: Indian officials have denied entry to a British legislator who chairs a parliamentary group focused on the disputed region of Kashmir, after she landed at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Debbie Abrahams, a Labour MP who was visiting family, was unable to clear customs on Monday after her valid Indian visa […]
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Fri 14 February 2020: (Reuters) – The United States barred Sri Lanka’s army chief, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva, from entering the country over accusations of human rights violations including extrajudicial killings in 2009 during the country’s civil war, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday. “The allegations of gross human rights violations against […]
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Fri 14 February 2020: A peace deal with Taliban is “very close,” U.S. President Donald Trump said late Thursday. Earlier on the same day, the United States secured a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan that it hopes will allow it to strike a deal with the Taliban. The announcement came a day after Afghan […]
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FILE PHOTO Thu 13 February 2020: Pakistanis from all walks of life are eagerly awaiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s two-day official visit to Islamabad starting Thursday. The capital Islamabad’s main Kashmir Highway and other roads have been decorated with Turkish and Pakistani flags as well as life-size portraits of Erdogan, President Arif Alvi and […]
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Wed 12 February 2020: Malaysia is among 120 countries which bought rigged encryption devices from a Swiss company that was secretly owned by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Washington Post reports. The report did not state when Malaysia bought the encryption devices from Crypto AG or whether they are still being used. The […]
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Sun 09 February 2020: Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik has filed a defamation suit against former Batu Uban assemblyperson S Raveentharan over five postings uploaded to the latter’s Facebook page in October last year. Zakir, through legal firm Messrs Akberdin & Co, filed the writ of summons at the Kuala Lumpur High Court Registry on […]
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FILE PHOTO Sun 09 February 2020: Two US service members were killed and six others injured when an individual in an Afghan uniform opened fire on them, the US military said on Saturday. The incident, which took place in Nangarhar province, occurred after a combined US and Afghan force was returning from a “key-leader engagement,” […]
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