Thursday
- March 9, 2017
| Pakistan hangs
five TTP terrorists Staff Report RAWALPINDI: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), in a statement on Wednesday, announced the hangings of five Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists, at district Jail Kohat, the hanged TTP terrorists had earlier been tried by the military courts. (Full Report) |
| COAS meets Qatari Emir, agrees on defence
cooperation Staff Report RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is on an official visit to Qatar, met with Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Wednesday, matters related to regional security and defence cooperation were discussed; an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said. (Full Report) |
British Ambassador discusses Pak-Afghan
relations with NSA Staff Report ISLAMABAD: British Ambassador Thomas Drew called on National Security Adviser (NSA) Lieutenant General (R) Nasser Khan Janjua on Wednesday, both agreed to work collectively to improve bilateral relationship between United Kingdom (UK) and Pakistan and to help ease tensions in Pakistan-Afghan relations; an official statement said. (Full Report) |
APHC slams Mehbooba’s employment-peace
hypothesis Monitoring Desk SRINAGAR (Indian Occupied Kashmir): All parties Huriyat Conference (APHC), in a statement on Wednesday, while ridiculing the statement of Indian Occupied Kashmir’s (IOK) puppet chief minister (CM) Mehbooba Mufti, wherein “she claimed to provide employment to youth, if they maintain peace,” lashed that present disturbances and turmoil is the outcome of continued forced occupation of Kashmir by India. (Full Report) |
| IAEA
approves K-2 and K-3 nuclear power plants’ safeguards Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors (BoG) on Wednesday approved Pakistan’s request for the application of safeguards for nuclear power plant units K-2 and K-3, the two are pressurised water reactors of 1,100 megawatts (MW) each and are being acquired from the People’s Republic of China; an official statement said. (Full Report) |
Pakistan urges democratic reform of UN
Security Council Staff Report NEW YORK (United States of America): Describing democracy as the overarching 21st century reality, Pakistan told the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday that this principle should determine reform of the UN Security Council, an official statement said. (Full Report) |
World condemns hospital terrorist attack
in Kabul Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a hospital in Kabul on Wednesday, resulting in the loss of 30 precious lives and injuring over 60 others; an official statement said. (Full Report) |
| WikiLeaks exposes CIA’s “hacking techniques” E.2 Monitoring Desk UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: WikiLeaks, on Tuesday, revealed how United States (US) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hacks, worldwide and conducts operations suiting US interests. (Full Report) |
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