Author: Javaneh Buriro

The committee will explore and discuss all aspects of Pakistan and India relations, the government’s policy of keeping sports and policy apart, and the situation in India for the players, officials, fans, and media before submitting its recommendations to Sharif. Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has formed a high-level committee, headed by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, to decide on the national cricket team’s participation in the 2023 ODI World Cup in India. The committee will explore and discuss all aspects of Pakistan and India relations, the government’s policy of keeping sports and policy apart, and the situation in India for…

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s bail on corruption charges was extended again Monday, after he urged supporters to take to the streets if he is re-arrested. Khan’s brief detention last month on graft charges sparked days of deadly violence as thousands of his followers rampaged through cities, setting fire to buildings and clashing with police. He was freed from custody after the Supreme Court declared the arrest illegal, but he says the government still plans to detain him to quash his momentum ahead of elections due by October. “They believe that people will sit as silent spectators when they…

Pakistan has been awarded the hosting rights for the Champions Trophy 2025, with the tournament scheduled to take place in February and March, 2025.  The International Cricket Council (ICC) sent the hosting agreement to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) some time ago. Typically, such documents are promptly signed and returned.This time, the PCB decided to exercise caution and sought the advice of prominent lawyers before moving forward. Subsequently, the PCB sent a letter to the ICC outlining a few objections that needed to be addressed before signing the agreement.  According to sources, the primary purpose behind the recent visit of…

In recent days, Imran Khan has cut an increasingly isolated figure. Since Pakistan’s former prime minister was released from jail, after a brief but explosive attempt to arrest him last month, his return has been marked by a mass exodus of the top leadership of his party, on a scale that has surprised even his critics. Late on Thursday night, Pervez Khattak, the former chief minister and defence minister, became the latest high-profile resignation from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. He followed in the path of Khan’s former finance minister, his former human rights minister, his former information minister and his former shipping minister,…

During a period of two months, the ministry of health reported at least 40 new cases of AIDS from the city of Chiniot in the province of Punjab. According to details, as many as 40 new cases of AIDS have emerged in the city of Chiniot in Punjab province over a two-month period, with 22 individuals testing positive for HIV during screening of 62 people. Coordinator of the AIDS Control Program, Azhar Abbas, stated that a total of 715 cases of AIDS have been reported in the past three years. According to Azhar Abbas, out of the 62 individuals screened,…

The Taliban has been ruling Afghanistan for more than 20 months. The country is in the most profound humanitarian crisis in the last twenty years. International assistance is frozen or at a minimum. The population of the country is suffering, and drug production does not indicate a downward trend. At the same time, the international community is in a challenging situation. Diplomatic pressure on the Taliban leaders is in vain. The radical movement does not liberalize the political regime, granting rights to national minorities and women. In addition, the Taliban are not accepting any significant measures to combat international terrorist…

ASTANA – Tashkent is set to hold the Tashkent International Investment Forum 2023 on April 27-28 to present business and investment opportunities in Uzbekistan and the Central Asian region, reported Uzbek news agency Nuz on March 31. Major international investment, financial and economic organizations and companies are expected to attend the event featuring plenary sessions, roundtables, business-to-business meetings and panel discussions. Last year, the forum brought together more than 2,000 investors and participants from 56 countries.  Source : AstanaTimes

We never had a lot. But before last summer, most people living in my neighbourhood in Pakistan’s Sindh province got by, were safe and could afford to feed our children. Last summer, everything changed when heavy rains and extreme floods – worse than anything I’ve ever seen in my life – brought misery to us all. I do not know anyone whose home wasn’t at least partially destroyed. Luckily, two rooms in my house were spared, but some extended family had their entire homes washed away, so we put them up and I slept in a car on the side…

Russian Satellite News Agency, Ankara, March 26. Turkish President Erdogan thanked Putin for his positive attitude on the extension of the “grain deal” during the teleconference with Russian President Putin. The Turkish President’s Office released a message saying: “During the talks, President Erdogan thanked President Putin for his positive attitude on extending the Black Sea Food Initiative. conflict”. The Turkish Presidential Office stated in a message, During the talks, President Erdogan said that “Ankara and Moscow can take new steps on the basis of the economic cooperation consensus reached at the Sochi summit.” Source : baijiahao.baidu.com

People of Pakistan are in the middle of the country’s worst food crisis in history. Fights have started breaking out outside flour distribution centres. Two people died outside flour distribution centres in Pakistan’s Punjab province in separate incidents, Dawn reported. One of the incidents took place at Muzaffargarh and the second at Khairpur Tamewali. Free flour distribution centres in Pakistan are seeing surging crowds as the cash-trapped nation battles a burgeoning food crisis.  In Muzaffargarh’s Jatoi, an elderly woman who had gone to collect free flour fell to the ground in the crowded area and died on the spot. The…