Indian Sub-continent

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13 (APP): President Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Ahmed Shah said on Monday that the Indian bid to host the G-20 summit in Srinagar territory was an attempt to deflect world attention away from the real issue of Kashmir.

In a letter addressed to the Secretary Generals UN and OIC, Shah said that the Modi government’s plan to hold the summit in the disputed territory was part of its disinformation campaign aimed at creating a smokescreen to hide ground realities in Kashmir and to hoodwink the international community.

DHAKA, Mar 12 (NNN-BSS) – The apex trade organisation of Bangladesh, held the “Bangladesh Business Summit 2023” in partnership with the Bangladeshi government here yesterday.

The three-day summit came, as part of efforts to further boost the country’s growing trade, commerce and investment sectors.

Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, inaugurated the summit to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), the country’s top business body.

ISLAMABAD, March 12 (Xinhua) -- A polio vaccination campaign to immunize more than 21.54 million children under the age of five will kick off in Pakistan's southern Sindh province and eastern Punjab province on Monday, the Pakistani Health Ministry said.

In the first phase of the drive, more than 17 million children during the five-day campaign from March 13 to March 17 would be vaccinated in 13 districts of Punjab, 16 districts of Sindh and the federal capital Islamabad, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise scam, has moved a city court accusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of forging his statements in the matter.

Islamabad, Mar 11 (PTI) Pakistan’s ex-premier Imran Khan on Saturday accused the Punjab caretaker government of covering up the death of one of his party workers and demanded a judicial probe into his killing.

Ali Bilal, also known as Zillay Shah, died, while several others were injured on March 8 as the Punjab government used force to block a rally staged to launch Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s campaign for the April 30 elections in the province.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 10 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday felicitated China’s President Xi Jinping on being elected for the position for third time.

“The confidence of the Chinese people and parliament in President Xi Jinping is a recognition of his extraordinary leadership skills,” the Prime Minister said in a message of greetings on behalf of the government and people of Pakistan.

President Xi Jinping was voted unanimously by the People National People’s Congress (NPC), as the President of China for the next five years.

NEW DELHI, Mar 19 (NNN-PTI) – In a bid to tighten oversight of digital assets, the Indian government has imposed money laundering provisions on cryptocurrencies or virtual assets, officials said yesterday.

A gazette notification, issued by the country’s federal finance ministry, said, the anti-money laundering legislation has been applied to crypto trading, safekeeping, and related financial services.

With this decision, digital assets, cryptos or virtual asset businesses, will now fall under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

9 Mar 2023; MEMO: Pakistan, on Thursday, dispatched another shipment of over 1,200 tons of relief goods for people affected by twin earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria, an official said, Anadolu News Agency reports.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 9 (APP): Jamaat ul Ahrar, a militant outfit Thursday accepted responsibility for the suicide bomb blast that killed Governor of Balkh province in Afghanistan Mulla Mohammad Dawood Muzammil , said a spokesman of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan.
Seven people including the governor were killed and nine others were injured in the bomb blast.
Mulla Dawood was the leading figure of Taliban.
The Jamaat ul Ahrar had differences with the governor over the rule in the Balkh province.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Mar 9 (NNN-ANA) – A blast killed the governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province today, a local television channel reported.

The explosion rocked Mazar-i-Sharif city, capital of Balkh province, provincial police spokesman, Mohammad Asif Waziri, said.

“A blast took place next to the office of provincial governor’s office, minutes ago and so far we have no more details,” Waziri said.