Late one night, South African journalist Simon Allison woke up his wife with an idea: a weekly African newspaper for Africans, distributed via WhatsApp. She told him to go back to sleep, and “keep it for the morning”. But that was the birth of The Continent, in the middle of the pandemic. Even though it’s … Read more
The team Peshawar Zalmi is owned by Javed Afridi and it is a part of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) since its first edition. Afridi and the Haier Group bought the team for $16 million for 10 years period. Mohammad Akram is Bowling Coach and Director of Operations for Zalmi. Darren Sammy is the head … Read more
Srinagar – The Kashmir Press Club in Srinagar was permanently shut down on January 17 with its premises formally taken over by the government of the union territory of Kashmir. The government announced that the biggest journalist body of the Valley has ceased to exist — it has lost its registration as a society, its … Read more
Vietnamese authorities and the Chinese embassy in Vietnam held a ceremony to officially inaugurate the China-constructed Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line project, the first one of the type completed in the Southeast Asian country. Over the past two months of commercial operation, the metro line transported some 15,000 passengers per day and has welcomed 1 … Read more
Farmers of Southern Punjab are facing challenges in effectively applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to increase crop cultivation, which has resulted in a decline in the overall crop yield and has added to the rising commodity prices in the country. Agriculture is a major industry in Pakistan which contributes around 20 per cent to the overall … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan on January 14 unveiled a public version of the country’s first-ever National Security Policy (NSP), while claiming that Pakistan was in dire need of a multi-pronged strategy for the future to ensure the protection of its citizens and guard economic interests. The federal cabinet approved the NSP on December 28, … Read more
GAZA – Each morning more than 140 Palestinian farmers gather in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to plant and tend to crops to sell locally or in Israel. “This scene has long been absent from a town famous for being an agricultural area, due to the difficult political and economic … Read more
RUMAH, Saudi Arabia – With heated stalls and hot milk, life couldn’t get more glamorous for Saudi Arabia’s most beautiful camels when they stay at a luxury compound near Riyadh. For 400 riyals (just over $100) a night, the camels are trimmed, scrubbed and pampered before taking part in beauty contests, where millions of dollars … Read more
After fighting a legal battle for the last 60 years, finally the third generation of Tarbela Dam affectees got justice as the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) to give them alternative land as compensation. The SC has dismissed the appeal of WAPDA against the claims of the Tarbela Dam … Read more
Brazil began vaccinating children aged five to 11 against Covid-19 after the move was approved, despite objections from President Jair Bolsonaro as he said that the spreading variant Omicron is just the flu and not merciless. Davi Seremramiwe Xavante, an Indigenous eight-year-old boy, was the first child to be vaccinated during an official ceremony at … Read more
KABUL – Every day, about 300 impoverished families receive naan from a charity via bakeries in the west of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul over the past three months. “We give one naan to each member of a family every day. If a family has 10 members, they can receive 10 naan each day,” said Mohammad Sharif … Read more
GAZA – Each morning more than 140 Palestinian farmers gather in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip to plant and tend to crops to sell locally or in Israel. “This scene has long been absent from a town famous for being an agricultural area, due to the difficult political and economic … Read more
Of late, a lot has been happening on the political front. Some rifts are surfacing in the rank and file of the sitting government, and the opposition continues to express its commitment to give the regime a tough time. However, it also seems reluctant to exercise a no-confidence move against the government. For the time … Read more
Lithuania is right to recognise its mistake, but it is more important to take action to correct this mistake and get back to the right track of upholding the one-China principle, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the remarks at a daily press briefing in response to media reports that Lithuanian … Read more
In the world of cricket, the T20 format has now become the face of the sport where in the space of three hours or just a little more, fans get to witness all the action and drama, that too with certainty that there will be a result. In the world of T20 cricket, different leagues … Read more
NEW DELHI – Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane sent a clear message to China that India won’t let any attempts to unilaterally change the borders succeed at the Line of Actual Control amid an ongoing standoff between the two sides when addressing an Army Day parade on January 15, according to Hindustan Times. Naravane’s … Read more
Dr. Nafeesa Shah, PPP MNA National Accountability Bureau could not be termed as an independent institution and Co-Chairman of the party Asif Ali Zardari had rightly said that NAB has damaged the very fabric of the national politics. The victimization of political opponents by government through NAB is evident and in my view the … Read more
Although rural Sindh is approximately 100 kilometres away from Karachi, barring a few districts of the province, the rest depict a gloomy picture of deprivation and an abundance of issues that make life for the rural population extremely difficult. These issues include poor to no infrastructure, a bad law and order situation, dismal health and … Read more
Dhaka – Accused of abductions and extrajudicial killings, the South Asian nation’s law enforcement agencies are intimidating families into retracting statements. On January 10, Zahid Khan Shakil, a small-time businessman in the Basabo area of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, had an unexpected guest. A sub-inspector from the local police station came to his house and asked … Read more
Studies of pregnant women found the two most widely used Covid vaccines pose no risk to mothers or babies, the EU’s drug regulator said. Research involving some 65,000 women showed “growing evidence” that the Pfizer and Moderna jabs did not cause pregnancy complications, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said. The shots also provided increased protection … Read more
In an interesting recent judgment, the Lahore High Court held that it could not order an ambassador of a foreign country to issue visas and air tickets to citizens of Pakistan. A citizen, Saghir Ahmed, had pleaded that he had applied for asylum in the USA by filing an application through the post, claiming that … Read more
It is said that white collar crime is difficult to detect because the criminals are smooth operators and have deep and wide tentacles spread at all the right places. It takes months, sometimes even years and decades to trace out the culprits who commit white collar crime. But as the phrase goes, crime doesn’t pay, … Read more
TEHRAN – Iranian envoys have returned to the Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in the first such diplomatic move since the two countries cut ties in 2016, the foreign ministry announced on January 17. “The delegation is now in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to start its work at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation,” Saeed Khatibzadeh … Read more
Climate change in the coming decades could lead to an increase in cases of kidney stones that would bring huge costs to healthcare systems, according to research by scientists in the United States. A study, published in Scientific Reports, found that even if measures are put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there would … Read more
CAIRO – Egyptian and Chinese civilisations share common characteristics in terms of their distinctive imprints on humanity, said Ayman Abdel Wahab, vice-chairman of state-run Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in a recent interview with Xinhua. Abdel Wahab, who is also editor-in-chief of “Ahwal Masryah” magazine, has prepared a research under the title of … Read more
The United Kingdom’s post-Brexit foreign policy mission phrase, “Global Britain,” invokes Britain as a buccaneering trading nation, free from the “shackles” of the European Union, moving toward a brighter future that lies beyond Europe. A more detailed codification of the mission was presented in the policy document, “Global Britain in a Competitive Age”, published earlier … Read more
The ongoing ailment of PML-N Quaid and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has remained under the scanner since he left the country under a rumored ‘deal.’ From PM Imran Khan to his advisors, and from the general public to medical professionals, even sceptics of Sharif were surprised to see how the supposedly critically ill former … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Some 31 per cent of Asian American residents in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, one of the largest Asian communities in California and the United States, said they or their family experienced a hate incident based on their race or ethnicity since the Covid-19 outbreak, a new survey has found. … Read more
