Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (APP): The Ambassador of Turkey in Pakistan Ihsan Mustafa Yurdakul called on Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood and discussed the ways for enhancing the already existing bilateral cooperation in education and vocational training.

Education minister, on next week, is visiting Turkey to have meetings with Turkish ministers of education, culture and tourism to share experiences with them, says a press release here on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (APP): Director General South Asian and SAARC Dr Mohammad Faisal on Monday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia and condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Line of Control (LoC) on September 28 and 29.

Due to indiscriminate and unprovoked firing by Indian Army in Nikial and Rakhchikri Sectors of LoC, Salamat Bibi, 60, and Zeeshan Ayub, 13, lost their lives. Also, a woman in Nikial Sector and two other civilians including another woman in Rakhchikri Sector sustained serious injuries.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP): Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday while advising the nation to ward off pessimism in hard times declared that the whole Pakistani nation would keep standing for the just rights of oppressed eight million Kashmiris who had been bracing the worst kind of inhuman curfew and atrocities in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K).

ISLAMABAD, Sep 29 (APP): Chairman Kashmir Committee, Syed Fakhar Imam has said due to effective policy of the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) government on Kashmir, the international community was now considering Indian narrative wrong that Kashmir was its internal issue on the issue.

Islamabad, Sep 28 (PTI) Pakistan opened all major border crossing terminals on Saturday for the Afghan citizens to allow them to cast their vote in the key presidential election.

Voting is under way in Afghanistan's presidential election, amid heavy security and threats from insurgents.

About 9.6 million Afghans are registered to vote in key presidential poll which marks the culmination of a bloody election campaign.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 28 (APP): People marched in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, against Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir and demanded of the Indian government to end continued curfew in the territory.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the members of a group Kashmir Solidarity Council Bangladesh (KSCB) gathered in Maghbazar, neighborhood of the city, and took out a procession.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 27 (APP): Mishal Malik, wife of Kashmiri freedom movement leader, Yasin Malik Friday asked United Nation (UN) to play its pro active role and must take appropriate measures to stop humanitarian crises emerging in Indian Occupied Kashmir after Hitler Modi’s move of scraping special status of Kashmir.

Talking to private news channel , she demanded the international community and UN to send fact finding mission and peace keeping forces in the Held valley to stop the genocide that Indian forces are committing there.

27 September 2019; AFP: The brother of Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch was on Friday sentenced to life in prison for her murder -- the patriarchal country's highest-profile "honour killing".

Baloch, 26, who shot to fame for her risque selfies -- tame by Western standards, but considered provocative in deeply misogynistic Pakistan -- was strangled in July 2016.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 25 (APP): Minister for Energy Omar Khan Wednesday extended Pakistan’s support to the efforts and innovative idea of making hydrogen energy as an affordable and reliable source of fuel supplies.

In his address at the 2nd Hydrogen Energy Ministerial Conference held in Tokyo, he emphasized that the price of Hydrogen Energy supplies needed to be reduced as compared to conventional fuels to make it a fuel of choice, said a press release issued here.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The death toll from an earthquake in Pakistan on Tuesday has risen to 37, the Mirpur divisional commissioner, Muhammad Tayyab, said on Wednesday.

Tayyab said the dead included men, women and children.