KARACHI: The Joint action Committee (JAC) of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees announced to end the strike and asked the employees to resume flight operations across the country with immediate effect. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday evening, JAC chairman Sohail Baloch announced the decision to end the eight day long strike and requested “all...
RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday that Israeli and Palestinian officials will hold a security meeting in Jerusalem this week to discuss the security situation in the West Bank. Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), who was speaking to Voice of Palestine Radio, did not give further details about...
ABUJA: At least 23 people were killed following an attack by gunmen who invaded a village in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara, local authorities said Tuesday. The attackers rode on motorbikes and shot indiscriminately at residents of Kwanar Dutse village located in Maru district of the province last weekend, said Salisu Isa Dangulbi, the most...
ISLAMABAD: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands arrived in Pakistan on a three-day visit on Tuesday in her role as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). She is visiting Pakistan in support of the implementation of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy. Pakistan launched this strategy in May 2015, in order...
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced three Islamic State (IS) group supporters to between three and five years in prison for recruiting locals to join the militant movement. The West Jakarta District Court handed down 3 years, 3.5 years, and 5 years to Ahmad Junaedi alias Abu Salman, Helmi Muhammad Alamudi alias Abu Roya, and...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi security forces fought fierce clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants and retook control of the eastern part of the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s western province of Anbar, while the troops seized a road linking the city to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the military said on Tuesday. The troops...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) recorded bearish trading activities on Tuesday for the first time since Jan.21 as investors tracked lower international oil prices to book profits at higher levels. The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark KSE 100-Index declined by 0.8 percent or 262.02 points to 32,444.20 points on Tuesday when compared with 32,706.22 points...
ISLAMABAD: The Variety Evaluation Committee (VEC) on Rice has recommended fourteen (14) new rice hybrids to National Seed Council for their commercial cultivation in the country. Some of the recommended hybrids have yield up to 106 maunds per acre. Chairman Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) Dr. Nadeem Amjad said that with the addition of new...
ISLAMABAD: A minor student girl was hurt after a metallic kite string cut her face here on Tuesday. According to details, Haleen Masih d/o Arif Masih, a student of KG class at a private school near 7th Avenue was returning home from school when a metallic kite string slit her cheek and forehead. The wounded...
PESHAWAR: Unknown armed men shot dead former President of Peshawar Chambers of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) and a prominent leader of traders here on Tuesday and fled the scene. Police said that unidentified miscreants sprayed bullets at shop of trader’s leader Haji Haleem Jan in historical Qissa Khwani Bazaar of Peshawar leaving him critically injured...