Stock markets in Europe and the US are facing for their biggest worst falls since the 2008 financial crisis after the trading week began with panic selling amid the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an oil-price war. The FTSE 100 was projected to plunge by 6.3% when trading begins on Monday, while...
Turkish President Erdoğan and his counterpart Putin have repeatedly met each other in recent years to coordinate their moves in Syria. In September 2018, they reached a de-escalation deal on Idlib in Sochi, Russia, aimed at turning Idlib into a de-escalation zone in which acts of aggression and offensive are expressly prohibited. With nowhere to...
President Donald Trump confirmed that he had spoken by phone with a top leader of the Taliban about the recent peace agreement reached in Qatar aimed at winding down a conflict that has turned into America’s longest war. Trump called the conversation a “very good talk”, Trump told reporters as he left the White House...
After almost 20 years of war and 18 months of talks, a peace deal has been signed between US and Taliban in Doha on February 29th 2020 /Rajab 5, 1441 Hijri in Pashto, Dari, and English languages. American side was represented by Zalmay Khalilzad and Mullah Barader from Taliban in the presence of Foreign Minister...
It is almost hundred years, the Balfour Declaration was issued by the British government in 1917 to establish a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority of Jewish population. Before this declaration, land was purchased in Ethiopia to establish a Jewish home. After Balfour declaration (1917)...
Sabtain Ahmed Dar New Delhi’s mysterious press release and framing in media on Soleimani assassination as to that of Osama and Al-Baghdadi is indeed a stab in the back. Indian media has failed to realize that rule of comparison in an analysis is always “like with like”; there is no justification to the notion that...
Sabtain Ahmed Dar New Delhi’s mysterious press release and framing in media on Soleimani assassination as to that of Osama and Al-Baghdadi is indeed a stab in the back. Indian media has failed to realize that rule of comparison in an analysis is always “like with like”; there is no justification to the notion that...
Mohammad Seemab Zaman Today, President Putin and Erdogan has launched the TurkStream gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey. Its length is 910 km and running under Black Sea. It will transfer 31.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year and meet the energy demand of 15 million homes to Ankara and Istanbul. The second pipeline...
A report released by ICIMOD in February 2019 emphasised that air pollution in the Himalayas is on the rise and regional air quality has worsened in the past two decades, with the adjacent Indo-Gangetic Plains now one of the most polluted regions in the world. It noted that in 12 cities (Allahabad, Patna, Dehradun, Delhi,...
The 16th International Natiya Mushaira was conducted under the aegis of the “Al-Noor International”, a religious, cultural and literary organization at Dallas in American state of Texas. This spiritual event has been hosted by renowned personality and poet Dr. Shamsa Qureshi and Dr. Noor Amrohvi very well annually in an orderly fashion. Well known personality...