Sunday, August 4th, 2019
India intends to prevent Pakistan from support to Kashmiris: Masood
GILGIT, August 4: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President, Sardar Masood Khan has said that frequent aggressions by India at the Line of Control are designed to bring Pakistani under pressure and to deter it from extending moral and political support to the Kashmiri people. However, he maintained that Pakistan was a nuclear power and its defense rested in strong hands. Addressing students and teachers of Karakoram International University here on Sunday, he said that Pakistan through its befitting response to the Indian aggression on February 27 this year, hadRead More
Rehabilitation work on main double road of sector I-14 completed
ISLAMABAD, AUG 04 (DNA) – Capital Development Authority (CDA) has completed rehabilitation work on main double road of sector I-14. The main double road of the sector I-14 is not being used by the residents of sector I-14 but is also used to access sector I-16 passing through sector I-15. Under this project, Triple Surface Treatment (TST) of the 16 km long double road, eight (08) kilometers on each side, was carried out. While damaged drainage systems has also been rehabilitated in addition to repair maintenance of protection walls andRead More
Qureshi chairs ex-foreign secretaries meeting on Indian atrocities in Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, AUG 04 (DNA): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has chaired a meeting of former foreign secretaries to discuss Indian atrocities and human rights violations in occupied Kashmir. The session was attended by Foreign Secretary Sohail Mehmood and former foreign secretaries of Pakistan. Foreign Minister Qureshi consulted the participants of the meeting over the serious situation of the occupied territory and decided to highlight the Indian aggression at every international forum. Qureshi said that the world is concerned over the situation in Kashmir. “Indian designs are a bid to unsettleRead More
Tour De Hajj team gets a rousing welcome in Madinah
MIDINAH, AUG 04 (DNA) – “After cycling 4,000 miles and travelling through 17 countries amazing brothers from the UK have finally reached Madinah. They achieved this milestone in over 60 days . The inhabitants of the city of Madinah accorded a rousing welcome to these cyclists upon their arrival in Madinah. People praised the commitment and devotion of the cyclists and wished best of luck to the Tour De Hajj team.=DNA
Hong Kong police make fresh arrests, city braces for further protests
HONG KONG, AUG 04 (DNA) – Hong Kong police said on Sunday they arrested more than 20 people after violent clashes with anti-government protesters overnight, as the Chinese-controlled territory braced for more protests and a general strike aimed to bring the city to a halt. On Saturday police fired multiple tear gas rounds in confrontations with black-clad activists in the city’s Kowloon area, the latest escalation after more than two months of protests against a proposed bill to allow people to be extradited to stand trial in mainland China. In aRead More
OIC expresses concern over deteriorating situation in occupied Kashmir
JEDDAH, AUG 04 (DNA) – The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir including reports of deployment of additional paramilitary forces and use of banned cluster munition by the Indian forces to target civilians, OIC said in statement. The General Secretariat is saddened to learn about the civilian casualties resulting from ceasefire violations carried out by Indian forces across the Line of Control and expresses solidarity with the people of Indian occupied Jammu andRead More