KARACHI: A 4.7 magnitude earthquake, having epicentre 75 kms north of the Metropolis at a depth of 19 kms shook the city and the terrain in its vicinity 4.11pm Monday (31st March, 2025). Not many karachiites (celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr) felt the shock, nor any casualty or damage has been reported. Newspakistan.tv Anum Mashkoor
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PARIS: A court here on Monday (31st March, 2025) has convicted far-right leader Marie Le Pen, [who belongs to the National Rally (RN)], for using European Parliament Fund’s three million Euros to pay per party members. She has been banned from participating for political office for five years. That means she will not be able […]
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GAZA: Khalil al-Hayyam of Hamas has informed that they had agreed to release five hostages (including an American-Israeli ) in exchange for a 50 days of ceasefire (a plan proposed by mediators in Egypt and Qatar). If Hamas and Israel sign the 50-day truce, the ceasefire would commence on Sunday (30th of March, 2025). Surprisingly, […]
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TEHRAN: President of Iran Masoud Pazeshkian, while referring to Trump’s correspondence sent to the Irani Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (on 6th March, inviting him to come to the negotiating table to ponder over a nuclear deal), said during a cabinet meeting here on Sunday (30th March) that his country had responded. “We responded to […]
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KARACHI: Muslims in Pakistan will be celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday (31st March, 2025). The government of Pakistan has announced 31st March and 1st, 2nd April as public holidays on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of United Nations, took to the Twitter to express best wishes for Eid-ul-Fitr to Muslims all over the world: “But I […]
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GENEVA: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has stated on Friday (28th March, 2025) that the Organisation was pondering over shrinking its budget by 21% due to the withdrawal of USA, its biggest donor. WHO will have to reduce its reach and make cutbacks due to USA’s decision to freeze all such contributions and foreign aids. […]
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BANGKOK: Thai and Myanmar authorities have confirmed the death of 2056 people, 3400 injured, as rescuers are pulling more and more dead/wounded out of the rubble of bâtiments that collapsed due to the 7.7 magnitude tremor that hit the region on Friday (28th March, 2025). Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra had declared a state of emergency […]
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MASTUNG: A suicide bomber blew himself up near the rally led by Balochistan national Party-Mengal (BNP-M) here on Saturday (29th March, 2025). Akhtar Mengal took to the X to state: “A failed attempt to make our protest unsuccessful once again. Alhumdullah I’am safe with all party workers.” In order to protest against the arrest of […]
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KARACHI: National Academy of Performing Arts’ Zia Mohyeddin Theatre was the venue where music aficionados converged to listen to Musica Senza Confini – a performance by Italian singer Silvia Boreale – organised jointly by the Italian diplomatic mission here and the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA). Silvia opened her performance with National Anthem of […]
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PITUFFIK SPACE BASE (Greenland): US Vice-President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance landed here on Friday (28th March, 2025) for a visit to military base. Among others there were National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright in his delegation. It is pertinent to mention here that the visit of Vance was […]
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