7.8 Magnitude Powerful Earthquakes Shake Turkey & Syria ‘Disaster of the Century’ Death Toll in Türkiye, Syria Climbs 50,000 On 6 February 2023, a Mw 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was 32
Visit of a High-Level Pakistan Delegation to Afghanistan (22 February 2023) The delegation includes Inter-Services Intelligence Director General Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum and Pakistan’s special envoy on Afghanistan Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq. The delegation met senior leadership of the Interim Afghan
Taliban signs first international deal with China for major foreign investment in Afghanistan Chinese petroleum company CAPEIC to invest $150m (£124m) a year (6 Jan 2023) Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil
100+ killed, 157 wounded, as suicide blast rips through Pakistan police mosque Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who visited the wounded in Peshawar, and vowed “stern action” against those behind the terror attack PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a
Call to save Rohingya refugees adrift on boat without water, food Sri Lanka navy rescues over 104 Rohingya adrift in rough seas On December 8, a boat carrying 154 Rohingya refugees was rescued off the coast of Thailand by a
President of Pakistan, visited Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Doctor Arif Alvi, President of Pakistan, visited Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Rawalpindi. He met with the officers and soldiers who got injured while clearing CTD complex Bannu. President praised their bravery and resolve
Dutch court sentences three to life for flight MH17 downing (17-11-2022) Russians Sergey Dubinskiy and Igor Girkin, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, were found guilty of causing the crash that killed 298 civilians in 2014. A Dutch court has
Gen. Sahir Shamshad Mirza appointed chair of joint chiefs of staff committee Pakistan names former spy master Gen. Asim Munir as new army chief Outgoing Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa served since 2016, retires Nov. 29 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz
Rishi Sunak, A British Indian, becomes UK Next Prime Minister At 42, Rishi Sunak, who is Hindu, is also the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years. For the first time in the United Kingdom’s history, the country is