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Media, journalists lost their independence after Taliban takeover: Report
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 18 (ANI): Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, media and journalists have lost their independence in the crisis-torn country, local media reported.
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Taliban trying to 'erase' women from public life, say UN experts
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 18 (ANI): A group of UN human rights experts warned on Monday that that large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls has been ongoing since the Taliban took over the control of Afghanistan in mid-August in order to "
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Adaptation of Fire Safety in times of Covid 19
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI/TPT): In just a few months' time, the COVID crisis has brought about years of change in the way companies in all sectors and regions do business.
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Pakistan NSA set to visit Afghanistan this week
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 17 (ANI): Pakistan National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf is set to visit Kabul this week amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country.
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China's reluctance to export chemical fertilizer creates a crisis in Nepal
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], January 17 (ANI): Nepal is facing a shortage of chemical fertilizer due to the reluctance of China to supply the important agricultural component despite an agreement between the two sides.
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Pakistan: Farmers protest over fertiliser crisis, poor law and order situa
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Rahim Yar Khan [Pakistan], January 16 (ANI): Hundreds of farmers in Pakistan staged a protest against the fertiliser crisis, unavailability of irrigation water and the "precarious" law and order in Sadiqabad Tehsil, local media reported on Sunday.
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Beat your quarantine blues with Abida Parveen, Naseebo Lal's 'Tu Jhoom'
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): Amid the COVID-19 crisis and the extreme cold weather, the latest song of legendary Pakistani singers Abida Parveen and Naseebo Lal's 'Tu Jhoom' feels like a long hug from someone making you warm and telling you to just jhoom and wear your heart on your s
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Texas synagogue hostage crisis: Biden condemns anti-Semitism, extremism
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has condemned anti-Semitism after several people were taken hostage at a synagogue in the town of Colleyville, Dallas, and pledged to do everything to prevent "the rise of extremism" in the country.
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Texas synagogue hostage crisis establishes Pakistan as state sponsor of te
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): Pakistan has once again emerged as a terror-sponsoring country after reports of the man who took hostages of four people at a synagogue in the town of Colleyville, Dallas, linked to the Pakistani Scientist Aafia Siddiqui who was serving sentence in US pr
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Amid humanitarian crisis, misgovernance in Afghanistan, Taliban calls on c
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 16 (ANI): Amid humanitarian crisis, misgovernance and turmoil in Afghanistan, the Taliban called on Afghan citizens to pay their taxes on time.
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State Bank of Pakistan refuses to open Afghanistan Relief Fund
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 15 (ANI): The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has refused to open the Afghanistan Relief Fund and requested the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to review its decision, expressing the fear that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) might impose sancti
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Afghanistan: Number of teenagers involved in hard labour rises in Ghor pro
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 15 (ANI): Post-Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the number of poverty-stricken Ghor children involved in hard labour had surged.
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