ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug 23, 2015 (AFP) – Pakistani intelligence agencies have rescued a Chinese tourist kidnapped last year in an area close to insurgency-prone regions, it was announced Sunday. The unidentified man was abducted in May last year from Daraban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the border with Baluchistan province and the South Waziristan tribal […]
Islamabad, Aug 23 (PTI) Pakistani media today blamed India for the cancellation of first-ever NSA-level talks by setting “pre-conditions” ahead of National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz’s visit to New Delhi, in a blow to the efforts to normalise their bilateral ties. Aziz was expected to discuss terrorism and other outstanding issues with his counterpart Ajit […]
DAMASCUS, Aug. 22 : (Xinhua) A Syrian journalist working for the Lebanese al-Manar TV died Saturday from wounds he sustained a day earlier as he was reporting on the clashes in a Syrian city near the Lebanese borders, the state news agency SANA reported. Abdo Ali Jawad was hit Thursday while covering the clashes between […]
BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has predicated severe waves induced by Typhoon Goni in the East China Sea and South China Sea in the coming days. The Bashi Channel will see waves with a height of up to 11 meters by noon on Saturday, with waves as high as nine […]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — United Nations Command has offered to the Democratic People’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) having talks about the shelling at the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), Yonhap News Agency reported Friday citing a government official. The UN Command’s military armistice commission sent a telephone notice to the DPRK […]
