TEHRAN: Irani President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the unveiling ceremony of a new ballistic missile here on Sunday (2nd Feb, 2025) that can hit a target (such as Israel) 1,700 kms away In a televised address to the nation President Masoud Pezeshkian stated: “The development of defence capabilities and space technologies… aims to ensure that no […]
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KARACHI (NPTV/UN): Protecting wetlands for our common future is the theme of this year’s World Wetlands Day that is being observed on 2nd February. A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine and coastal ecosystems such as all lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and […]
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OTTAWA: Responding to Trump’s move of imposing 25 percent levy on Canadian/ Mexican (and 10% on Chinese) commodities, Canada has announced 25 percent tariffs on American goods. While China stated that it would take necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests, Mexico too is all set to retaliate by soon announcing similar tariffs […]
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KARACHI: The inaugural flight of Saudi Arabian airline Flydeal (FE-661), that took-off from Riyadh, landed here on Saturday (1st Feb, 2025). According to details the low-cost Flyadeal will operate 2 weekly flights to and from the Metropolis: one from Riyadh every Thursday and another from Jeddah every Saturday. Flyadeal, that in 2024 operated charter flights […]
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GAZA: Hamas on Saturday (1st Feb 2025) handed over 3 hostages (Yarden Bibas, 34, Ofer Kalderon, 53, and Keith Siegel, 65) held here, to Red Cross in exchange for 183 Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli gaols. It is pertinent to mention here that the process of prisoners’ swap commenced on 19th Jan, 2025 and this was […]
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KALAT (Balochistan): Security forces have neutralised 12 militants during an operation carried out in the general area of Mangocher here on the Fri/Sat (31st Jan/1st Feb, 2025) night. “On behest of inimical and hostile forces, this cowardly act of terrorism was aimed at disrupting the peaceful environment of Balochistan by targeting mainly the innocent civilians,” […]
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KARACHI: Govt has augmented, for the next fifteen days, the price of petrol by one rupee per liter while the price of HSD has been raised by Rs. 7 per liter. Citoyens will be able to buy a liter of petrol for Rs. 257.13 and a liter of diesel for Rs. 267.95 from 1st till […]
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WASHINGTON DC: 26-year-old Asra Hussain (who had recently located here for work) texted her husband informing that she was landing in 20 minutes, but that proved to be her last message. The plane, Asra Hussain was travelling in, collided with an army heli and plunged into the freezing Potomac River near Reagan National Airport on […]
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LAHORE: ICC Men’s Champions Trophy Squad has been announced by PCB here on Friday (31st Jan, 2025). According to PCB: “The squad, to be captained by Mohammad Rizwan with Salman Ali Agha as vice-captain, includes three members from the 2017 title-winning side – Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf and Fakhar Zaman. Babar and Fakhar, along with […]
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Security forces have neutralised ten terrorists during an IBO carried out here on Thursday/Friday (30th/31st Jan, 2025). According to details four militants were neutralised in D. I. Khan, while six more were killed in separate encounters in North Waziristan district’s general areas of Datta Khel, Hassan Khel, Ghulam Khan and Mir Ali. Weapons […]
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