Islamabad, 09 May 2019 (APP) Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Saeed Ahmad Al-Malki Thursday said the Kingdom was keen to establish a cultural centre in Islamabad with a view to strengthen cultural collaboration between the two countries. He expressed these views during a meeting with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and...

Islamabad, May 05 (APP) Pakistan and Afghanistan on Sunday agreed to make efforts for availing their geographic locations to enhance regional connectivity. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani telephoned Prime Minister Imran Khan wherein they discussed bilateral ties and agreed to realize the true economic potential of the two countries for socio-economic development, alleviation of poverty, and welfare of...

Islamabad, 05 May 2019 (APP) President Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Dr. Bandar Hajjar on Sunday said IsDB group has provided a total financing of US $ 12.43 billion to Pakistan through development projects in past years. Pakistan is the integral member country of the IsDB group and is the third largest beneficiary of IsDB financing...

  South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said the latest projectile launch from North Korea is “not a missile,” Yonhap News Agency reported, citing unidentified lawmakers briefed by the agency. The height and distance traveled by the projectiles were not far, Yonhap said Saturday, adding that a full assessment of the launch has not been completed....

Moscow, 05 May 2019 (Anadolu News) Up to 41 people were killed after a Russian Aeroflot plane made an emergency landing in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Russian Investigative Committee said late Sunday. A Superjet-100 plane with 78 people on-board, traveling from Moscow to the northern port city of Murmansk, caught fire soon after taking off and...

Zahran Hashim, believed to have masterminded the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, spent “substantial” time in “south India,” a top Sri Lankan military source said on Friday. Investigators identified Hashim as the leader of the National Thowheed Jamaath, which they said executed the highly coordinated blasts on Sunday. Over 250 people, including 45 children and...

BBC, 27 April 2019 Fifteen people including six children were killed in Sri Lanka on Friday when suspected Islamist militants blew themselves up in a raid, police said. The raid occurred in Sainthamaruthu, near the hometown of the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 250 people. Gunmen opened fire as troops...

Seoul, 27 April 2019 (Yonhap) South Korea held an event Saturday to mark the first anniversary of last April's inter-Korean summit, in a modest and quiet tone with no participation from North Korea amid the stalled denuclearization talks. Televised live, the ceremony began at 7 p.m, at the southern side of the truce village of...

Islamabad, 26 April 2019 (APP) China and Pakistan agreed to revive the cooperation in order to ensure investment promotion in prioritized sectors such as Information Technology, Textiles and Agro-based products. Chairman Board of Investment (BoI), Haroon Sharif met the Director General of Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) of Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of...

Oxford, 26 April 2019 (Anadolu) By Samuel Ramani On April 17, President Donald Trump vetoed a bill passed by both houses of Congress that would have ended U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia’s military intervention in Yemen. To justify his decision, Trump described the bill as an “unnecessary and dangerous attempt to weaken his constitutional...