Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Police arrested 13 suspects and detained dozens of others in the lynching of a Sri Lankan employee at a sports equipment factory in eastern Pakistan, officials said Saturday.

A mob of hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on the factory in the district of Sialkot in Punjab province Friday after the Sri Lankan manager of the factory was accused of blasphemy.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 29 (APP): After the British-Pakistani cricketer Azeem Rafiq recently spoke up against the “institutional racism” in the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, one of the top clubs in the UK, people are speaking up in the country against the bigotry they had been facing in the society.

Social media trends, video campaigns and public speeches are being made against race-based discrimination with the active participation of non-governmental organizations to call out the evil.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 28 (APP): President Dr. Arif Alvi Sunday held a bilateral meeting with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev wherein he reaffirmed Pakistan’s full support for the Trans-Afghan Railway project and assured all possible cooperation for its early realization.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 15th ECO Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Ashgabat.

The talks covered the entire spectrum of bilateral cooperation, with a special focus on trade and economic relations, and connectivity agenda.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 25 (APP): Pakistan has so far dispatched 13 consignments containing 1,669 tons of relief items for Afghan people as the process of extending humanitarian aid to the war-torn country continues.

Consisting of food, medicine and shelters, eight consignments were donated by the Government of Pakistan. Out of these five consignments were dispatched through Torkham border, two from Ghulam Khan border and one from Chaman border.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 24 (APP): Pakistan on Wednesday allowed transportation of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat and medicine from India to Afghanistan, citing the “goodwill and exceptional humanitarian gesture”.

The transportation of wheat and life-saving medicine was allowed from India via the Wagah Border.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 21 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan recorded 313 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 1,281,872, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), said today.

A total of 28,659 people have died from COVID-19 in Pakistan, including four deaths newly reported, said the NCOC, the department leading Pakistan’s campaign against the pandemic.

Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has been the worst hit, with a total of 474,058 cases, followed by eastern Punjab province with 442,422 infections.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 19 (NNN-APP) – The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been providing multifaceted opportunities for Pakistan to further enhance regional connectivity and the national economy, a Pakistani expert said yesterday.

Lahore/Der Baba Nanak (Gurdaspur), Nov 18 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi along with some of his Cabinet ministers on Thursday offered prayers at the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan after travelling through the visa-free Kartarpur corridor that reopened for pilgrims after a gap of 20 months.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 14 (APP): Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has confirmed that they were mediating between Pakistan and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), though no agreement was reached yet.

Muttaqi, who was visiting here mainly to attend Troika Plus meeting, told BBC Urdu in an interview published Sunday that the Taliban government was mediating on the desire of both the parties in Pakistan.

He said the parties had not yet reached an agreement; the beginning was a good one with the announcement of a month-long ceasefire.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 13 (APP): As Pakistan issues visas to 3,000 Sikh Yatrees for 552nd birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak, the Sikh community in India has given a deadline of November 19 to their government for reopening the Kartarpur Corridor.