A bill has been introduced to deal with those who enter the UK illegally. The bill was introduced by Home Secretary Sylla Braverman in London. Soyla Braverman said on the occasion that those arriving in Britain on small boats would be immediately sent to other countries. Illegal persons can be detained without bail for up…
In the 24th match of Pakistan Super League (PSL) 8, Islamabad United have won the toss and decided to field against Multan Sultans. Captain Shadab Khan and Mohammad Rizwan entered the field for the toss of the match being played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Islamabad United and Multan Sultans have played 7 and 7…
Karachi: The price of gold per tola and per 10 grams of gold decreased by Rs 700 and Rs 600 respectively in the local bullion markets on Tuesday as the price of gold per ounce fell by $7 to $1842 in the global market. After the decrease in the global market, the price of gold…
Chinese Foreign Minister Xi Jinping, file photo China’s Foreign Minister Xi Jinping says that the US and China are heading towards an irreversible conflict. He said while holding a press conference that the US says that it wants to dominate China without any conflict, but this competition from the US side is to stop and…
Students belonging to the Hindu community celebrating Holi in University of Karachi were prevented from celebrating Holi. In this regard, a statement of a Hindu student on social media has also gone viral, in which the student has accused a religious organization of forcibly stopping Holi from opening. The Hindu student said in her statement…
Colombo, January 2022: Chinese Foreign Minister Weng Yi stands arm in arm with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Rajapaksa. China came to the rescue in tough times, agreeing to reschedule Sri Lanka’s debt. After debt restructuring by China, it will be easier for Sri Lanka to get a $2.9 billion package from the IMF. According to…
The unprecedented flooding, triggered by severe monsoon rains, submerged a third of the country and resulted in some 1,700 deaths. Millions displaced, infrastructure damaged More than 33 million people were affected overall, or one in seven Pakistanis, while eight million were displaced and 13,000 injured, according to the UN Office in the country. Around one…
Among the many challenges they face, the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) remain hotspots of chronic and acute food insecurity, with an average prevalence of chronic undernourishment of 22.1 per cent, and in some countries, reaching more than 50 per cent. Despite some progress since 2020, the overall situation has worsened over the past decade due…
The current human rights landscape is compounded by conflict, discrimination, poverty, shrinking civic spaces, and the emergence of new human rights challenges such as the rise of artificial intelligence and surveillance, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk noted. “Fresh thinking, political leadership, renewed commitments, and dramatically scaled-up financing, with the centrality of human…
Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, was speaking during a Council meeting to reaffirm the importance of Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, adopted in October 2000, and to take stock of implementation since it turned 20 nearly three years ago. “As we meet today at the mid-point between the 20th and 25th anniversaries, on…
