Prominent Parliamenterian Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani has long been recognized as most influential and thoughtful voice in Pakistan’s intellectual and political landscape—an advocate of interfaith harmony, a firm believer in good governance, and a courgious writer who blends history with modern-day reasoning. In his recent Urdu-language op-ed titled “The Enemy of My Enemy is My…
The territory of Islamabad has a rich and diverse history that spans thousands of years and dates back to stone age.
The American bioengineering company has announced the world’s first ‘head’ transplant in a short period of a decade. According to foreign media reports, the bioengineering company released details on its website and said that it is working on a ‘head transplant system’ and plans to perform the first ‘head’ transplant in human history in the…
From expanding indigenous peoples’ seats at the UN table to appointing an Israeli-Palestinian orchestra co-founded by renowned scholar Edward Said as a UN Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding, here is a peek at some of what happened on this day across the decades. Zanzibar, which became independent on 10 December 1963, was admitted as the…
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell briefs the UN Security Council in February 2003 on evidence of Iraq’s failure to disarm. (file) This #ThrowbackThursday, we’re featuring UN Video’s visual collage of some of the most memorable moments in UN history through its Stories from the UN Archive series. Giving viewers a front-row seat, the…
Virginia: Cybersecurity researchers have warned that the recent leak of more than 26 billion private records has been dubbed the biggest data leak in history. According to the report, this leak includes sensitive data of several websites including Twitter, Dropbox and LinkedIn. Worryingly, researchers who tracked down the leak say the breach is extremely dangerous…
Sitting in a small, windowless room in a government building in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed loops another audio tape onto the dilapidated machine and presses a few buttons. He’s beginning a time-intensive process to digitize some seven decades of unique historical recordings belonging to the government-run Radio Mogadishu. One down, a couple…
When will the annual matriculation exams be held? History came out The date of annual matriculation exams has been revealed. According to the details, in the meeting of the Education Boards Committee, the schedule of the annual matriculation examinations has been approved for the next year. The annual matriculation examinations organized by all education boards…
His call came just hours before UN agencies reported that phone lines, internet and mobile service in Gaza went down. “Gaza has lost contact with the outside world amid reports of intensified bombardment,” Lynn Hastings, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Palestine, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. The World Health Organization (WHO) has “lost…
“History is watching,” Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told UN News in Geneva, highlighting the desperate situation facing around one million Gazans uprooted in the last week, after the Israeli military warned of an imminent offensive following the deadly 7 October attacks on Israel by militant group Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza strip since…
