Archive for the May 1, 2017
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Japan will dispatch its biggest warship since World War II to protect a US supply ship, as tensions mount in the region over North Korea, media reports said on Sunday. The helicopter carrier Izumo will
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British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday denied she was "in a different galaxy" after European Union leaders were reportedly dismayed by her Brexit negotiating demands at a meeting this week. May told European Commission
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Libya has seized two foreign-flagged oil tankers and detained their crews for allegedly smuggling fuel after an hours-long gunbattle off the west coast, authorities said. Oil is Libya's main natural resource, with reserves estimated at
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte failed to condemn China's push to control most of the disputed South China Sea on Sunday after hosting a regional summit, handing Beijing a political victory. A day after taking centre
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Donald Trump hailed a "very productive" first 100 days as America's president on Saturday, telling a roaring crowd of supporters other "great battles" ahead would be won. In an hour-long speech Trump lambasted the media
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Civil society activists concerned over violations of the labor rights of the women cotton pickers in Sindh. According to a rough estimate more than a million cotton pickers work in cotton picking from July to
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The workers of Jamaat-e-Islami continued their protest on Sunday outside Governor House in the city on looad-shedding and over-billing "We want the authorities to make up for the losses borne by [the people of] Karachi,"
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Speakers among educationists, head teachers and civil society activists came together to contribute in educational status in district Matiari and emphasised that pro-active leadership role may increase girls' education. This was discussed in a closing
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Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that International Labour Day revives the memory of struggle of workers of Chicago in 1886 for their fundamental rights and sacrifices they offered in the attainment of
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Ambassador Aizaz Chaudhry presides Urdu poetry recitation event (Mushaira) organised by the Urdu Writers Society (North America) in California on Sunday. During his first visit to Los Angeles, California as Ambassador of Pakistan to the
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