Friday, May 21st, 2021
Turkey to host 2022 Amputee Football World Cup
ANKARA – Turkey will host the 2022 Amputee Football World Cup, the country’s youth and sports minister announced on Friday. “Today, we are hosting the Amputee Football Champions League in Gaziantep. We will hold the Amputee Football World Championship in Turkey in October 2022. I want to share the good news with our sports community,” Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu said at the opening ceremony of the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF) Champions League in the southern Gaziantep province. Kasapoğlu expressed satisfaction with the significant progress of Gaziantep towards becoming a sportsRead More
NATO vigilant on ‘disturbing’ Russian aggression in Ukraine
NATO remains vigilant against Russian aggressive actions amid increased troop presence around Ukraine, the head of the intergovernmental military alliance warned on Friday. “Russia still has troops in and around Ukraine, more troops now than before the escalation … NATO remains vigilant because this is part of a disturbing pattern of Russian aggressive actions,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference after a meeting at the Elysee Palace. He added that NATO is committed to a “dual track approach of defense and dialogue” with Russia. There has been aRead More
Pakistan starts local production of anti-Covid vaccine: NA informed
ISLAMABAD, MAY 21 (DNA) – The National Assembly was informed on Friday that Pakistan has started local production of anti-Covid vaccine. Parliamentary Secretary for National Health Services Nausheen Hamid told the house during question hour that the first batch of CanSino vaccine is currently being manufactured at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and this will be available for administration to the people by the end of this month. The Parliamentary Secretary said out of the total stock of vaccine doses imported, ninety one percent were purchased by the governmentRead More
Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani, Dr. Shahzad Waseem visit Palestine Embassy
ISLAMABAD, MAY 21 (DNA) – In Solidarity with Palestinians, Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani has condemned the Israeli atrocities carried out against innocent and unarmed Palestinians. The series of attacks by Israeli occupation forces on innocent people, illegal settlement of the Israelis, and forced evictions of Palestinians are serious violations of human rights and international law, he maintained. Resolution of the Palestine issue was indispensable for lasting peace in the region. Human rights organizations, the UN Security Council, and the International community should take the issue of Palestine seriously and takeRead More
“WHO SAID WHAT?” A RECAP OF PRESENTATIONS AT THE VIRTUAL DIALOGUE ON HUMAN RIGHTS INJUSTICES IN AFGHANISTAN
DNA Islamabad, May 21: China must continue playing a vital role in the region after the US withdrawal as they are working on massive development projects in the immediate neighborhood of Afghanistan,i.e., Pakistan and Iran and any instability in Afghanistan will impact them enormously. These were the remarks made by Dr. David Kilcullen, Professor of International and Political Studies at the UNSW in Canberra, Australia whilst speaking at the quadrilateral webinar organized by the Center for Research and Security Studies Islamabad. The theme of the webinar was“the consequences of theRead More
World peace links to settlement of Kashmir, Palestine disputes: Mushaal
DNA ISLAMABAD, MAY 21 – Mushaal Hussein Mullick, the wife of Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik, said that people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and inhabitants of war-torn Palestine are facing the worst form of terrorism at the hand of their respective occupied forces. Speaking at a rally held in protest against human right violations in Kashmir and Palestine here on Friday, Mushaal said that the, on one hand, Hindutva regime of India unleashed a wave of barbarism and state terrorism in the occupiedRead More