Islamabad [Pakistan], February 5 (ANI): Pakistan is witnessing an alarming rise in the number of honour killings as it claims 176 lives last year, mostly including women, local media reported citing the Sindh Suhai Sath, a non-governmental organisation.
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Parliamentary committee has approved four bills, including one that seeks separation of the judiciary and the district administration in the country's capital Islamabad, local media reported on Saturday.
Beijing [China], February 5 (ANI): As China is hosting Beijing Winter Olympics, it reported 27 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours amid the zero-Covid policy, local media reported citing the National Health Commission on Saturday.
Buenos Aires [Argentina], February 5 (ANI/Sputnik): Seven people have died as a plane with tourists crashed in the Nazca desert in Peru, media reported.
Berlin [Germany], February 5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's China visit -- first in the last two years -- points to Islamabad's financial dependence on Beijing, especially as the West continues to ignore Pakistan, according to a media report.
London [UK], February 4 (ANI): Disgraced former Labour peer Lord Nazir Ahmed has been jailed five-and-a-half years for sexual abuse of two children in the 1970s, UK media reported on Friday.
Amsterdam [Netherlands], February 4 (ANI): Media reports in this past week have claimed that the US has held up the acceptance of the Pakistani Ambassador-designate to the US, Masood Khan, over his sympathy for terrorist leaders and organizations.
Beijing [China], February 4 (ANI): Plans for a hypersonic plane capable of flying between Beijing and New York in an hour have been unveiled by a Chinese company, New York Post reported citing media reports.
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 4 (ANI): Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August last year, thousands of people from the crisis-torn country have fled to Turkey looking for shelters to survive, said a media report.
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 4 (ANI): Several Journalists were injured during a clash between two rival groups inside the National Press Club (NPC) on Thursday, local media reported.
Karachi [Pakistan], February 4 (ANI): Amid ownership dispute between provincial and federal governments, Sindh has declared two islands off the coast of Karachi as "protected forests", local media reported on Friday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 4 (ANI): Afghan businesswomen, who have gone bankrupt and lost their jobs following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, urged the Islamic Emirate to pay attention to solve their challenges, local media reported.