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KABUL -- Afghan officials say a former prominent female television journalist in Afghanistan has been killed in Kabul. Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Raimi says Mena Mangal was shot dead in Kabul’s 8th district at 7:20 a.m. on May 11. Shopkeepers who witnessed the shooting near Kabul's...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday is set to challenge Maryam Nawaz’s appointment as vice president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in the Election Commission of Pakistan. The application challenging her appointment is finalised by the PTI’s lawmakers. “Awarding party...

Iran will resume high-level enrichment of uranium if world powers did not keep their promises under a 2015 nuclear agreement, President Hassan Rouhani has said on Wednesday, responding to the U.S. withdrawal from the deal a year ago. In a speech on national television, Rouhani said the UK...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Saturday appointed new heads of the State Bank of Pakistan and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to effectively deal with the challenges of weakening growth rates and soaring inflation. Dr Reza Baqir has been appointed as Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)...

ISLAMABAD: Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing here on Friday called on Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan in Islamabad. Talking to the Chinese ambassador, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said that Pakistan would send a cultural troupe to...

LONDON: Speaker of the Punjab Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi arrived in London on Friday night. He was welcomed by PML-Q London chief organiser Naeem Warraich upon arrival at the airport. Speaking to the media, the PML-Q leader ruled out the...

LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday extended judicial remand of former railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique and his brother Khawaja Salman Rafique for 14 days in Paragon City scam case. Jail officials produced the Khawaja brothers in the court on expiry of their judicial remand under...

Non Operational Military awards were conferred upon Officers and Airmen of Pakistan Air Force during an Investiture Ceremony, held at Air Headquarters in Islamabad today (Thursday). Chief of the Air Staff Pakistan Air Force Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, conferred awards on the...

LONDON - Theresa May is reportedly planning to hold a vote on a key piece of Brexit legislation next week in a risky attempt to breathe new life into her plan for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. The prime minister is set to let Members of Parliament vote on the Withdrawal...

WANA: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday promised people of Waziristan that the federal government will provide all possible health, education and development facilities to impoverished people of tribal areas, ARY News reported. Addressing rally in Wana area of South Waziristan, the premier...

SEOUL: North Korean pioneer Kim Jong Un will visit Russia for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean state media affirmed. With his Russia visit, North Korea's Kim is seen attempting to develop outside help for his monetary advancement plans, since the breakdown of the...

Published:Defence.pk On Apr 22, 2019 GOUDA: Surrounded by 15-kg (33 lb) wheels of cheese ready to be carted away in horse-drawn carriages, a dairy farmer in the Dutch city of Gouda faces off against a cheese trader wearing traditional wooden clogs. Staring each other in the eyes, they clap...

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It was no secret that Pakistan’s finance minister, Asad Umar, was not preforming up to the mark. The opposition was salivating at the prospects of his failure. Even members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were grumling. Umar was seen as being responsible for failing to control...

The well-celebrated Time Magazine has just published the list of “100 Most Influential People” for the year 2019 and it has the name of our Prime Minister Imran Khan in it too. Pakistani Premier’s name is among leaders like Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad, America’s Donald Trump, New Zealand’s...

NEW DELHI: An image of a doppelganger of Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthanam, who was captured and later released by Pakistan, has gone viral showing him openly support the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The post which has gone viral on social media claims that IAF wing commander...

SYDNEY: Ball-tamperers Steve Smith and David Warner were on Monday selected for Australia´s World Cup squad, but there was no room for Josh Hazlewood or Peter Handscomb. It is the first call-up for the former captain and his deputy since the expiry late last month of year-long bans for their...

LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday arrived at Sharif Medical City Hospital, Lahore where a team of doctors from Karachi’s Aga Khan University Hospital will examine him. According to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb, the former premier will...

Bhartiya Janta Party Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Raja Singh copied a Pakistani patriotic song by the Inter-Services Public Relations and passed it off as his own by making slight changes. DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor pointed out the blatant act of copying on social media. “Glad...

MOSCOW (Defence.pk) - The launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy heavy-lift vehicle is a major success for the US space industry but Russia is also developing its own launch vehicles with reusable elements, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said on Friday. "Of course, we are working on it...