Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
Pakistan extends for 3 years an agreement with India for Rail Link
ISLAMABAD, JAN 30 (DNA) – The government of Pakistan on Tuesday extended an agreement with India for the Rail link between Munabao (India)- Khokhrapar (Pakistan) for another three years from February 1st, 2018 to January 31, 2021. According to Foreign Office statement, the Agreement was signed in 2006 to facilitate people to people contacts which Pakistan believed were essential for improving relations between both the countries, the statement said.
Pakistan calls for strong regional alliance and integration
ISLAMABAD, JAN 30 (DNA) – Pakistan has vocally pursued the agenda of regional integration and advocated look inward approach to work jointly for regional development as Asia is rising and people of Asia have to be the masters of their own destiny. This was stated by Chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani while addressing the inaugural session of the 3rd ECO Attorney General Conference being held in Pakistan from Tuesday. Mian Raza Rabbani said that 21st century belongs to Asia and it is only through enhanced cooperation and linkages that we can riseRead More
FC Balochistan arrests 10 terrorists, huge weapons cache seized
QUETTA, JAN 30 (DNA) – Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan Tuesday apprehended 10 suspects during multiple intelligence-based operations (IBOs), according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The IBOs, conducted in Dera Murad Jamali and Dera Bugti areas, resulted in the recovery of weapons and ammunition including explosives, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), anti-personnel mines, hand grenades, accessories of different weapons, and a large number of ammunitionsthe ISPR said in a statement. In similar IBOs conducted on January 25,FC Balochistan had apprehended 20 terror suspects from Dera Murad Jamali, Pashtoon Abad, Sangan, and Shahreg areas. Weapons andRead More
Pakistan, India deliberating proposal to release each other’s disabled, elderly prisoners
Pakistan and India are considering a proposal to release prisoners of certain categories on humanitarian grounds held in each other’s jails, even as tensions simmer between the two South Asian rivals over ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary, it emerged on Tuesday. During high-level discussions in past weeks, officials from both countries deliberated over a plan to release imprisoned citizens that fall into the following three categories: Prisoners over 70 years of age Mentally disabled and hearing or speech impaired persons Female prisoners According to official documentsRead More
Security Forces soldier martyred in Quetta
QUETTA, JAN 30 (DNA) – A Levies Force personnel was shot dead by some unidentified armed assailants at Qambarani Road near Sariab area, here on Tuesday. According to police sources, the Levies Force official Muhammad Ismail s/o Muhammad Akbar resident of Mastung was near Sharif Abad, Qambarani Road when some unknown armed assailants riding a motorbike opened fire at him and fled away from the scene. As a result, he died on the spot. The body of the deceased was shifted to Sheikh Zahid Hospital for medico- legal formalities. The policeRead More
British human rights activists ask for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from UN body
LONDON, JAN 30 (DNA) – Two British human rights lawyers said on Tuesday they will ask for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council over 61 people “arbitrarily detained or disappeared” by the country’s authorities. Ken Macdonald and Rodney Dixon said in a statement that they will submit their report to the Council in Geneva on Wednesday, stating that the 61 arrests were “in breach of both Saudi and international law”. The report will accuse the authorities of “targeting human rights activists, political dissidents and others merely exercisingRead More