23 Oct. 2020 (Jazeera News) Pakistan will remain on a terrorism financing watch list until it completely implements a set of preventive guidelines, a global watchdog said, urging Islamabad to improve financial controls. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body, praised Pakistan for progress on 21 of 27 recommendations but said the rest...

Islamabad/Karachi, 20 Oct. 2020 (Express Tribune) Army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa has ordered an inquiry into the ‘Karachi incident’ that led to registration of a first information report (FIR) against PML-N’s Capt.  (Retd) Muhammad Safdar and his subsequent arrest during a visit to Sindh provincial capital. “Taking notice of the Karachi incident, the COAS...

Washington, 20 Oct. 2020 (Anadolu News) Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee to late Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, filed suit in US district court Tuesday against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the journalist's grisly murder. Cengiz and a rights group founded by Khashoggi before his death filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C. District Court...

Ankara, 20 Oct. 2020 (Anadolou News) Turkey is set to continue its search for energy resources in Black Sea region, where it has so far discovered 405 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas, the country's president said on Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference following an hours-long cabinet meeting in the presidential complex in...

Gujranwala (Pakistan), 16 Oct. 2020 (Tribune Express) The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) began its countrywide protest campaign against the incumbent government by holding a maiden power show in Gujranwala on Friday, which the opposition termed a “decisive referendum against the incompetent” rulers. The PDM, comprising around a dozen opposition parties on a joint platform to...

Landi Kotal (Pakistan), 16 Oct. 2020 (Express Tribune) Two container truck carrying Nato supplies to Afghanistan were set on fire by unidentified miscreants on Bara Road near Jalandher village in Khyber district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Friday. A security official told The Express Tribune that the attackers fired gunshots at the trucks, forcing the drivers to abandon the...

Doha, 16 Oct. 2020 (Qatar Tribune) Ashraf Siddiqui The Afghan negotiating teams are close to finalising a roadmap and the rule of procedures for discussion, a top Afghan Taliban official has said. “It is a matter of merely two clauses. We hopefully will remove hurdles in reaching a final agenda of bilateral discussions,” Dr Mohammad...

Kabul, 12 Oct. 2020 (AlJazeera News) The United States military in Afghanistan has said its forces launched air raids against the Taliban in order to support Afghan government forces amid heavy fighting in the southern Helmand province. Fierce battles broke out in recent days after the Taliban attacked several security outposts on the outskirts of...

10 Oct. 2020 (Anadolu News) 198,867 Voters of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) will cast their vote today on Sunday, 11th of October 2020 in 10th Presidential General Elections. The presidential election in the TRNC is held every five years. The age of candidacy for Deputy ship is 25 years old, and 35 for...

Doha, 08 Oct. 2020 (Qatar Tribune) By Ashraf Siddiqui The people of Afghanistan hope for a comprehensive ceasefire after the Intra-Afghan dialogues aimed at ending the 20-year conflict in the country, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said. President Ashraf Ghani was speaking on Tuesday at a lecture on the ‘Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan’, moderated...