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The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) ATR42 aircraft smashed into a mountain in northwestern town of Havelian 50 km (31 miles) short of its destination, Islamabad, after taking off from the northern region of Chitral in December, 2016. The crash killed everyone on board, including Junaid...

Country records 4-month daily-low in case count on Monday While India saw Monday its lowest daily cases for the last four months, critical care facilities in COVID-19 hospitals in the country's capital New Delhi are almost occupied, official data showed. Delhi is currently witnessing an...

The international force that monitors the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement said Thursday that eight peacekeepers, including six Americans, were killed when one of its helicopters crashed during a routine mission in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. A ninth peacekeeper was badly injured. The...

Abstract: China’s military capability to perform out-of-area operations and provide international public goods falls short of the increasing need to protect its expanding economic, political, and security interests abroad. Overseas military bases can not only facilitate the soft application of...

Taiwanese officials have denied that it shot down a Chinese Su-35 fighter jet after social media footage of the wreckage of a plane burning near a building emerged. Footage circulated on Twitter shows the wreckage engulfed in flames and thick smoke. Several online accounts claimed that it was a...

Turkey, Greece continue with military exercises in eastern Mediterranean, with potential for dispute on exploration rights to escalate into confrontation . Turkey said on Saturday it will hold a military exercise off northwest Cyprus for the next two weeks, two days after it intercepted six...

A prominent female Afghan film director who is also an actress and senior police officer was recovering from bullet wounds on Wednesday after unidentified gunmen shot her as she was being driven through the capital, Kabul, her husband said. Saba Sahar, 44, is one of Afghanistan's first female...

UAE calls off ceremonial meeting due to Israeli prime minister's opposition to arms deal between Washington and Abu Dhabi, Axios reports. The United Arab Emirates cancelled a meeting with Israeli and American officials to formalise normalisation, due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the country's current account balance had recorded a surplus of $424 million in July, signalling that the economy was "on the right track". Hailing the development in a message on Twitter, the premier noted that in July last year, Pakistan had a current...

Palestinian militant group Hamas fired 12 rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip overnight, nine of which were intercepted, and Israel responded with three airstrikes on targets linked to Hamas leaders, the Israeli military said early Friday. It was the most serious exchange of fire along the...

The agreement makes the UAE the third Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan, to have full diplomatic ties with Israel. Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday they are establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal that required Israel to halt its contentious plan...

SCYTALYS continuing its dynamic expansion of its advanced technologies in the international marketplace, announced it has received a 49$ M contract award from the Indonesian Ministry of Defence, through an open competitive tender, for the provision of the Indonesian Armed Forces’...

Use the scenarios below to see how your country's NTI Index score can improve by taking specific actions. Within each scenario, the actions your country is already taking are indicated by checked boxes. Taking the actions with unchecked boxes will increase your country's overall score by the...

Islamabad: Pakistan has discovered new deposits of oil and gas in the Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The discovery was reported by state-owned firm, Pakistan Oilfields Ltd. (POL), at the exploratory well in Tal Block, Mamikhel South-01. Tal Block is considered one of the largest...

ISLAMABAD: Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was involved in several terrorist activities in Pakistan, will be granted second consular access today, diplomatic sources privy to the matter said. Indian Charge d’affaires has reached the Foreign Office as New Delhi has accepted Pakistan’s offer to...

LAHORE: The son of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has responded to allegations by US columnist Cynthia Ritchie who has accused senior members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of rape and sexual assault. Ali Haider Gilani, the younger son of former the prime minister, said he had...

Abu Dhabi: Bahrain’s Minister of Labor and Social Development categorically dismissed as rumours reports about a wave of layoffs of Bahraini workers in the private sector, soon after the end of a three- month government COVID-19 relief package to the sector. Minister Jameel Humaidan called on...

China, Pakistan and Nepal has surrounded India. Last year Pakistan had successfully thwarted Indian aggression. This year China has encroached upon Indian claimed territory. This shows the region has explosive potential. A major military conflict is brewing at the heart of Asia. It could come...

Israel has once again attacked Syria's Hama province, using warplanes to launch an airstrike. Hezbollah's chief, Hassan Nasrallah, has said that Israel is insecure about missile production in Syria, and is fighting an 'imaginary battle' with Iranian troops in Syria. Syrian forces fired...

As the new coronavirus that has killed more than 134,000 people worldwide continues to spread, Russia has stepped up its measures to slow the pandemic's spread within its borders. There have been 27,938 cases of coronavirus infections reported in Russia so far and 232 deaths. April 16: 3 things...