Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Ukraine raids Kiev offices of Russian state media
KIEV: Ukraine’s state security service searched the Kiev offices of Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency and TV channel RT on Tuesday, after detaining one journalist near his home, officials said. “Investigative actions are continuing, there are searches in RIA Novosti and other media structures,” Olena Gitlyanska, a spokeswoman...
China’s first home-built carrier sets out for sea trials
BEIJING: China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier left its northeastern port to begin sea trials on Sunday, state media said, the latest milestone in the country’s efforts to modernize its military. The still-unnamed carrier was launched this time last year but since then has been undergoing fitting of weapons and other...
Merkel blasts breaches of Ukraine truce
ASSISI: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday said she was deeply concerned by repeated breaches of a ceasefire between government forces and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. “Every night there are violations of the ceasefire and every day there are human casualties,” Merkel said in the central Italian town of Assisi, where she...
12 May: Riots in Karachi, Earthquake kills close to 90,000 in China, Asad Rauf, Berlin Blockade, Erik Erikson
Karachi riots 2007 Riots break out in the Pakistani city of Karachi on May 12, 2007 leading to deaths of 48 people. The suspension of the then- chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry raised tensions in the country that culminated in violence in Karachi on 12 May, 2007 after Chaudhry’s plane landed at the city’s airport....
“WhatsApp Uncles”
A lie, they say, would have traveled halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots. We are indeed in the post-factual world. An idiot with high production values can wreak absolute havoc with the nature of public discourse. WhatsApp and Facebook messages with the veneer of homework-done can spread around much quicker than...
Putin reviews Russia’s ‘invincible weapons’ on Red square
MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin watched advanced jets carrying a hypersonic missile he has touted as invincible scream over Red Square on Wednesday, days after the start of his fourth presidential term. Part of an annual event marking the Soviet Union’s World War Two victory over the Nazis, Putin looked on as thousands of troops...
Revolution sweeps Armenian opposition leader into power
YEREVAN: Opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected Armenia’s prime minister on Tuesday, capping a peaceful revolution driven by weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic. Moscow, which has a military base in Armenia, is wary of an uncontrolled change of power which would pull the country out of its...
Pakistani national pleads guilty; failed to register as US foreign agent
WASHINGTON: A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent in connection with lobbying work he did for the Pakistani government in an effort to shape US foreign policy, the Justice Department said on Monday. The newly unsealed case against Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry, a Pakistani national and US permanent...
No longer great people to fly with
Scenarios that could easily take place in Pakistan In December 2004, a massive tsunami caused the death of 62,000 people in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. If even one of these countries had had a viable warning system and an evacuation plan, these deaths could have been prevented, but they did not. A few years prior to 2004, a meteorologist in...
Another patient dies of Congo fever in Multan, death toll rises to three
MULTAN: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever, commonly referred to as Congo fever has claimed another life in Multan district of Punjab. The Congo fever had claimed two lives in Multan, earlier this month. According to media reports, six patients affected by the dangerous virus were brought to Nishter Hospital, one of them is dead and two others are...
