Riyadh, 29 April 2021 (Daily Dawn) Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia has returned to the country while orders have been issued to six other officers of the embassy in Riyadh to return over complaints by the Pakistani community in the kingdom, the Foreign Office said in a statement on Thursday. The statement issued from Prime...

Islamabad, 28 April 2021 (Daily Dawn) The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) announced on Wednesday that it had developed the country's "first indigenous intensive care unit (ICU) ventilator" — i-Live. The ventilator was developed by PAEC's scientists and engineers while keeping in view all essential quality standards and regulatory requirements, the body said in a...

Geneva, 28 April 2021 (Anadolu News) According to a document leaked to the media on Wednesday, Ersin Tatar, president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), made his six-point proposal to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a sustainable settlement to the decades-long Cyprus dispute. Tatar made the proposal during this week's three-day informal gathering...

Lefkosa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 28 April 2021 (Anadolu News) Turkish Cyprus is standing firm on the need for a two-state solution, the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus said on Wednesday, day two of informal UN talks in Geneva on the island. “We expressed our own views clearly. Of course, there...

Doha, Qatar, 26 Apr. 2021 (AlJazeera News) More than 200,000 people in Qatar have tested positive for the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic last year. The country has also reported 428 deaths as of April 26, including 150 in the last 30 days, following a spike in the daily cases and number of casualties....

Istanbul, 27 April 2021 (Anadolu News) By Batu Coskun (The writer is a London-based political analyst focusing on Turkey, Israel, and the Gulf. He holds a master’s in comparative politics from the London School of Economics). Iran’s nuclear facilities in Natanz took a devastating hit in the form of a power cut on the eve...

Islamabad, 26 April 2021 (Daily Dawn) Members of the legal fraternity, analysts, and politicians on Monday saw as monumental and historic the Supreme Court judgement of accepting the review petitions challenging the top court's verdict in the presidential reference filed by the government against Justice Qazi Faez Isa. Over the course of the last few...

Seoul, 26 April 2021 (Yonhap News) South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung has won best supporting actress at this year's Academy Awards for her performance in the immigrant film "Minari," becoming the first South Korean to win an acting Oscar. At the awards ceremony held at Union Station in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday (U.S. time)...

Ankara, 26 April 2021 (Anadolu News) The Turkish president on Monday denounced US President Joe Biden's "unfounded" statement on the events of 1915, saying it is "contrary to the facts."Addressing a news conference following a three-hour Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "US President Biden made a statement that is unfounded...

Lefkosa/Ankara, 26 April 2021 (Anadolu News) At a UN-led unofficial Cyprus conference this week in Geneva, a common ground will be sought to negotiate a lasting solution to the decades-old conflict on the island. The meeting will be held from April 27-29 with guarantor countries Turkey, Greece, and the UK. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will...