Author: Basbug Sayyid

China’s defence ministry said on Friday that it yet again had to monitor and drive away the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Milius that entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands. “We sternly demand the U.S. to immediately stop such provocative acts, otherwise it will bear the serious consequences of unforeseen incidents,” a spokesperson said in a statement from the Ministry of National Defence. The U.S. Navy said the guided-missile destroyer was asserting its navigational rights and freedoms. “Unlawful and sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas, including…

ISLAMABAD — A prominent female rights activist in Afghanistan lambasted the global community Saturday for failing to come up with a plan or agreement on how to help her crisis-ridden country since the Taliban took control of it 18 months ago.Mahbouba Seraj, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke virtually from the Afghan capital, Kabul, to a town hall at the Munich Security Conference on prospects for her country under Taliban rule.“Is there a plan, or you are just going to sit down and have meetings after meetings and talk about it and not get anywhere?” she asked. “Is that the name…

Alex Ratnasothy went missing while travelling in Nepal Twenty years ago, Alex Ratnasothy told his family he was going on his “greatest adventure yet” in Nepal. They never heard from him again. The 23-year-old, from Grays, in Essex, was due to come home in April 2003. On 21 February 2003, he warned via email he would not be in contact while he made a nearly month-long trek towards Everest basecamp. His last words to his family were: “I’ll be back before you know it.” In July 2003, the month of Alex’s 24th birthday, his sister Dr Anna Crozier and his…

Nepal’s vice president Nanda Bahadur Pun is frustrated. For the past seven years, he has felt disrespected by various government bodies, private organisations and even the parliament. “They send me an invitation, but they don’t even get the address right. How careless is that,” he says. “Even the parliament sends a normal staff member to invite me to events when according to the law, I should have been invited by the speaker, deputy speaker or the general secretary of the parliament.” After serving two terms, Pun is leaving the Green House. And during his time, he has seen it all…

Inflation is too high and the legal basis is not yet in place: Bulgaria has announced that it will not be able to introduce the euro at the beginning of 2024 as planned. The government now wants to achieve this goal by 2025. The Bulgarian government has abandoned plans to introduce the euro in January 2024. “Bulgaria is lagging behind in passing the relevant legislation,” said Acting Finance Minister Rossitsa Velkova. Due to failures in preparation, Bulgaria will not submit a convergence report at the end of February. This means that the planned introduction date of January 1, 2024 can no longer be met.…

After the violent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the danger has not yet been averted. Civil protection workers expect strong aftershocks. Istanbul – The devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria provides sad images of destruction. The official number of dead has now risen to over 44,000 – experts assume even more victims. Thousands of people remain missing. According to the Turkish government, 20 million people in the country are affected by the effects of the quake. Only the reports of “miracle rescues” give hope – eleven days after the earthquake, people are still being rescued alive from the rubble. Earthquake in Turkey: civil protection expects violent aftershocks But the…

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 20th Feb, 2023 ) :Senator Mushtaq Ahmed of Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday expressed his concerns about the increasing use of alcohol and asked the government for taking immediate steps to overcome the menace of its use in the country. The Senator moved a motion in the Upper House of the Parliament to discuss increasing the sale and purchase of alcoholic drinks, their consumption up to dangerous levels and the issue of crimes arising out in the country. He said that the use of alcohol was prohibited according to article 31 of the constitution and…

China and five Central Asian countries on Thursday kicked off a first-ever forum on industry and investment cooperation in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province, eyeing greater collaboration in digital economy, energy and agriculture. Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the China + Central Asia (C+C5) industry and investment cooperation forum, lauding the strategic partnerships between China and the five countries of Central Asia, which have established a new path with a friendly neighborhood and win-win cooperation and a new paradigm for international relations, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Xi said that China is willing to share with…

Afghanistan’s political crisis in August, 2021 triggered economic turmoil and a humanitarian emergency. Widespread hunger threatens the lives of children. Media stories relay the dire situation of some medical facilities—mostly hospitals in Kabul and other urban centres—without funds for staff salaries or medicine. However, although there are real challenges, the resilience exhibited by the health system has been largely overlooked. Since 2002, the provision of public health care in Afghanistan has relied on non-governmental organisation service providers to deliver most health services nationally. These service providers were awarded contracts by the former government (using predominantly donor funds) to provide free-of-charge…

‘Amid Pakistan’s economic crisis and the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban have reemerged as an increasingly potent threat,’ read the report by a US think tank. Islamabad: While Pakistan grapples with a severe economic crisis leading to drastic inflation and “ever-turbulent” political fiasco, the growing threat of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), especially with the support of the Afghan Taliban, presents yet another challenge for the struggling nation, according to a report from a US think tank. “Amid Pakistan’s economic crisis and the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban have reemerged as an increasingly potent threat,” read the United…