19-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The United States was joined by Russia, China and Pakistan on Thursday in calling on Afghanistan’s warring sides to reach an immediate ceasefire, at talks that showed Washington’s determination to win backing from regional powers for …
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19-03-2021 Bureau Report KUWAIT CITY/ ISLAMABAD: Kuwait, after a ten-year-long suspension, will be resuming work visas to Pakistanis, according to Minister for Interior Shaikh Rasheed. While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Rasheed said the Kuwait interior minister has assured him the country will resume work visas for Pakistanis. He said …
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19-03-2021 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked his US counterpart Joe Biden, escalating a war of words between the two world leaders. Putin said “it takes one to know one” after Biden, a day earlier, said he thought the Russian leader was a “killer”. Biden made the …
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18-03-2021 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Washington wants a new agreement with Tehran and wants to talk about issues other than what has been agreed in the JCPOA, stressing that in Iran’s view there is nothing to talk about with the United States. “They want a …
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18-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is not worried about some European Union countries suspending use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and will continue to roll out the shot in its huge immunization program “with full vigour”, a senior official said. The AstraZeneca shots are produced by India’s Serum Institute …
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WhatsApp condemns violence against Asian community in US 18-03-2021 CALIFORNIA/ ATLANTA: After the recent events of hate against the Asian American Community in the US, WhatsApp has condemned the acts of xenophobia, violence, and intolerance, in a statement issued Thursday. The widely-used app posted its message on Twitter with a …
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18-03-2021 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Nine Afghan security force members died in a helicopter crash late on Wednesday, according to defence ministry. Two sources told media the helicopter was hit by a rocket during takeoff in central Maidan Wardak province. Meanwhile, four people were killed and nine wounded when a roadside …
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17-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ATLANTA (GEORGIA)/ KARACHI: Each and every world of Press Media of India (PMI) and Karachi based Pakistani English Daily Messenger’s reporting has not only been proving 100 percent correct, true, confirm, establish and perfect along with the sensitivities of day, place, date and time …
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17-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ KARACHI: Armed men in southwestern Niger have killed at least 58 Shia people when they intercepted a convoy returning from a weekly market and attacked a nearby village, the government said on Tuesday. The attacks on Monday occurred in the Tillabery region, which …
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17-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir. IQAir is a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5. India was home to 35 of the …
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