Caretaker Information Minister Punjab Aamir Mir dismissed the claim of searching Imran Khan’s house in Zaman Park as baseless. In a statement, Amir Mir has said that the 3-member team headed by Commissioner Lahore did not conduct any search operation. He further said that Commissioner Lahore has gone to fix the SOPs for searching the…
F-22 Raptor aircraft, file photo The US Air Force will award a contract for sixth generation fighter jets in 2024. In its statement, the Air Force said that it wants to bring innovation in its planes against China’s military technology. The Air Force has issued a document to airlines based on their technical requirements. Companies…
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Friday in a statement, that a location near the town of Enerhodar, home of most of the plant’s staff, reportedly came under artillery fire earlier in the day, “in the latest incident indicating an increasingly tense military situation in the area.” Speculation of military activity The ZNPP,…
The finding is the result of a survey conducted by the UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland, which also revealed that 53 per cent had considered getting, or had already accessed, mental health support since arriving in the country. ‘Not a surprise’ “The psychosocial toll of the war in Ukraine is immense so the results…
The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, said in a statement that the executions on Friday of Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi, were “profoundly concerning in view of the reported involvement of these individuals in the protests that commenced in Iran on 16 September 2022, and allegations of their having been convicted and sentenced through confessions obtained under torture.”…
A wave of deadly attacks reportedly targeted West Darfur’s capital, El-Geneina, in recent days, while the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that more than 700 people had been killed and nearly 5,300 injured nationwide, after five weeks of intense clashes and bombardment. “Over one million people have now been recorded as displaced, within Sudan…
In a new alert, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more countries now face outbreaks, increasing numbers of cases are being reported and the outcome for patients is worse than 10 years ago. Killing the poor in plain sight “The pandemic is killing the poor right in front of us,” said…
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the latest World Health Statistics check-up – covering data up to 2022 – “sends a stark message on the threat of noncommunicable diseases, which take an immense and increasing toll on lives, livelihoods, health systems, communities, economies and societies”. The report calls for a substantial increase in investments in health…
From Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica in 2004 to earthquakes in Peru in 2007 and Haiti in 2010, Raul – chief of the regional office for disaster risk reduction – has developed an acute understanding of what the impact of disasters are, and what can be done to avoid or prevent them. “We continuously face a…
Although the southern African country has made recent progress in reducing chronic malnutrition, the agency said these gains have been threatened by acute food insecurity, compounded by other challenges such as recurrent climate shocks, preventable disease outbreaks and economic instability. Malawi was also slammed by Tropical Cyclone Freddy in March and is still grappling with…
