Maryam says situation for no-trust move against PM Imran now 'favourable'
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Thursday said the situation for tabling a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan was now "favourable", and asked PTI members to stop backing the party in view of the "changed situation". Former president Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had met PML-N President Shehbaz Shar...
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Pakistan's FIA arrests man for obtaining US visa using fake employment claim
The Anti-Human Trafficking Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a man for allegedly defrauding the US Consulate General in Karachi by impersonating a reporter of a private TV channel.Talking to The News on Wednesday, Sindh FIA Director Amir Farooqui said the arrest came after he had recently received a letter with a complai...
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Pakistan
Nepal's Pashupatinath temple to be opened from tomorrow
KATHMANDU, Feb. 10 -- The Pashupatinath Temple, which has been closed due to the fresh wave of COVID-19, will reopen starting Friday (tomorrow). According to the Pashupati Area Development Trust, the temple is being opened as per the new order issued by the District Administration Office, Kathmandu. The DAO on Monday directed allowing activities li...
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Study: Cargo ship disasters are 'oil spills of our time'
Container ship accidents at sea should be considered the “oil spills of our time”, warned environmental organisations that found a toxic mix of metals, carcinogenic and other harmful chemicals on plastic washed up on Sri Lanka’s beaches after a cargo ship fire. When the X-Press Pearl sank off nine nautical miles off Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital, in...
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SriLanka
Japan offers gas to Europe over Ukraine fears
Japan is offering Europe part of its liquified natural gas imports over fears supplies will be disrupted by tensions surrounding a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tokyo's trade minister said Wednesday. But Tokyo's offer is seen as symbolic, and comes with frenetic diplomatic manoeuvring under way in an attempt to ease tensions with Russia over Ukraine.
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Myanmar’s NUG Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung wants China to pressure junta
China's current lukewarm approach towards Myanmar's junta is encouraging but Beijing and other major regional players must urgently step up their pressure on the generals to prevent a prolonged armed conflict, the coup-ravaged country's parallel civilian government has said. In a wide-ranging interview with the Post, the National Unity Government's...
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Pakistan name strong squad as Australia prepare to tour
Babar Azam will captain a strong 16-man Pakistan squad named Wednesday to face Australia on their first tour of the South Asian nation in nearly a quarter of a century. Ace leg-spinner Yasir Shah has been demoted to reserves for the three-Test series, which will be played in Rawalpindi, Karachi and Lahore beginning March 4. Australia last toured Pakistan in 1998, declining to visit the cricket-crazed nation in the intervening years on security...
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Chinese 'space cleaner' spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite
Something out of a Star Wars movie occurred in Earth’s orbit last month. A Chinese satellite was spotted in late January grabbing another long-dead satellite and days later throwing it into a "graveyard" orbit 300 km away, where objects are less likely to hit spacecraft. These rare events were presented by Dr. Brien Flewelling in a webinar hosted b...
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Why has a Chinese city's lockdown sent aluminium prices surging?
The Covid lockdown this week of a relatively unknown Chinese city sent global prices of aluminium rocketing to a 14-year high. - The global aluminium price surge was sparked by the Baise lockdown but other major factors were already at play too, analysts said.
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'My work is not done': jailed Duterte critic runs for Senate
From behind bars, Philippine senator and human rights campaigner Leila de Lima is running for re-election in an against-the-odds campaign that gives her the chance to once again "go after" President Rodrigo Duterte. Instead, the 62-year-old is running again for the Senate in May's national elections, determined to continue her campaign against him.
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Sri Lanka not on verge of sovereign default, says central bank
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's central bank said on Wednesday the country was committed to honouring all forthcoming debt obligations, adding that the island nation was not on the verge of a sovereign default. Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crisis in decades, and foreign exchange reserves have fallen to $2.36 billion, ...
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As Hong Kong tightens Covid curbs, residents complain of being held ‘hostage’
A viral open letter from a member of Facebook group, HK Moms, marked something of a shift in public opinion. The group is the type not usually preoccupied with the city’s political upheavals, but the letter revealed a limit had been reached. Addressing Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, it accused the government of holding its citizens hostag...
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Study: Chinese funding of sub-Saharan African infrastructure dwarfs that of West
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's development banks provided $23 billion in financing for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa from 2007 to 2020, more than double the amount lent by such banks in the United States, Germany, Japan and France combined, a new study showed. The Center for Global Development think tank said a review of 535 publi...
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Taliban erases signs of ex-government from Kabul streets
In the six months since taking back control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have erased all visible signs of the former government from the capital. Gone are flags of the former republic, murals of national heroes, and memorials honouring those killed in Taliban attacks. Blast walls are now covered with slogans of the new Islamic Emirate. "With the help of God, our nation defeated the Americans," reads one. The owners of many beauty salons in...
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Somaliland pitches 'huge' oil & gas potential during Taiwan trip
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Somaliland has "huge" investment potential in untapped oil and gas reserves, the foreign minister of Somalia's breakaway region told Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday, pitching investment opportunities on a high-profile visit. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recogn...
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China's 'zero-COVID' curbs may hurt global growth, says BOJ policymaker
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -China's "zero-COVID" restrictions could weigh on world growth by prolonging supply chain disruptions and global inflationary pressures, a Bank of Japan policymaker said, warning of the broadening fallout from rising Omicron variant cases. Board member Toyoaki Nakamura also said it was premature for the BOJ to tighte...
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IHC grants Zardari one month
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday granted one month time to ex-president Asif Ali Zardari to approach Supreme Court in matter pertaining to jurisdiction of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in two fake bank accounts references.A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah stated that NAB had started investigation in...
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B'desh, India meeting in March
The Bangladesh and India commerce secretary level meeting is likely to be held in the first week of March to discuss various issues including removal of trade barriers and development of infrastructures to boost bilateral trade.The meeting, which will be held in New Delhi, will focus on lifting of anti-dumping duty on Bangladesh's jute products, In...
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Election Commission of Pakistan disqualifies PTI's Faisal Vawda in dual nationality case
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has declared PTI’s Senator Faisal Vawda disqualified in a case related to his dual nationality.Earlier on December 23, the ECP had reserved its judgment on a petition seeking disqualification of Vawda for concealing his dual nationality at the time of filing his election nomination papers in 2018...
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Unplanned urbanization Dhaka lacks sustainable housing
09 February 2022 Md. Zillur Rahaman :Planned urban management is not keeping pace with the growing urbanization and rapid urbanization in the whole country including the capital Dhaka. As a result, livelihoods and the environment are severely neglected in the formulation and implementation of infrastructure-centric development plans, including unequal distribution of civic amenities and formulation of extreme discriminatory policies. Considering...
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