US issues travel advisory on Pakistan over terror threats and violence
The United States has warned its citizens to reconsider travel to Pakistan, categorising some areas as high-risk over terrorism and sectarian violence.
The travel advisory was issued this week, warning its citizens against traveling to Balochistan province and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) including the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), over fears of terrorism and...
U.N. body rejects debate on China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in blow to West
GENEVA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The U.N. rights council on Thursday voted down a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses by China against Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang in a victory for Beijing as it seeks to avoid further scrutiny.
The defeat - 19 against, 17 for, 11...
Ten years of Afghan economic growth, reversed in just 12 months: UNDP
It says that the already-declining regular economy, as opposed to the black market, lost nearly $5 billion after August 2021 and is reversing “in 12 months what had taken 10 years to accumulate.”
The cost of a basket of essentials needed to avoid food poverty has meanwhile risen 35 percent, forcing poorer households to go...
British deliver aid to Ukraine via Pakistan
Despite internal problems and the political crisis, the UK happens tobe the largest military donors to Ukraine. This is evident from the fact thatLondon has already sent almost three billion dollars to the “square”.Recently reports have surfaced about secret participation of Pakistan in theBritish schemes which had previously demonstrated its neutrality in relationto the Ukrainian conflict.
iPhone in India: Apple makes new handset in India in shift from China
Apple says it has started making its iPhone 14 in India as it diversifies its supply chains away from China.
The company makes most of its phones in China but has shifted some production outside the country as tensions rise between Washington and Beijing.
China's 'zero-Covid' policies, that have triggered widespread...
Chinese envoy says isolation and sanctions will lead to ‘dead end’ in meeting over Russia’s referendums
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - China's Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun told a Security Council meeting that isolation and sanctions would only "lead to a dead end" after the United States called for the body to condemn Russia's referendums in occupied regions of Ukraine.
“Bloc confrontation, political isolation, sanctions and pressurization will...
Chinese yuan: Currency hits record lows against US dollar
China’s yuan has hit fresh record lows against the surging US dollar.
The internationally-traded yuan fell to its lowest level since data first became available in 2011.
China’s domestic currency also reached its weakest point since the 2008 global financial crisis.
It comes as the dollar continues to...
Afghan women protest Hazara ‘genocide’ after Kabul bombing kills dozens
A bomber blew himself up on Friday at a Kabul study hall as hundreds of pupils were taking tests in preparation for university entrance exams in the city's Dasht-e-Barchi area.
The western neighbourhood is a predominantly Shiite Muslim enclave and home to the minority Hazara community - a historically oppressed group that has been targeted in some of Afghanistan's most brutal...
Kabul blast kills teenagers sitting practice exam
A suicide attack at a tuition centre in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 35 people, most of them female students, the United Nations says.
More than 80 others were wounded in Friday's attack at the Kaaj education centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi area.
Students had been sitting a practice...
Taliban official calls for schools to be reopened for girls
Senior member of Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government urges rulers to reopen secondary schools for girls, saying ‘women must get education’.
A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan has called on the country’s new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth year, saying there is no valid reason in Islam for the...