(Xinhua/NAN) Maltese Customs intercepted the largest ever drug haul, the Customs Department said on Tuesday. According to local media Malta Today, over 15 tonnes of cannabis resin was seized while in transit at the Malta Free port on a container ship. “The containers, which were transiting through Malta on theirContinue Reading
No fewer than 6.3 million children under the age of 15 died from mostly preventable causes in 2017, a group of UN agencies said in a new mortality estimates study. The estimate is the equivalent to one child dying every five seconds, according to the new report compiled by theContinue Reading
China is expected to have the most organ transplant surgeries in 2020, said Huang Jiefu, Director of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee. Huang said this at the opening of 3rd China International Organ Donation Conference in Xi’an on Friday. Huang said that the number of registered volunteersContinue Reading
An Indian village has banned Muslim rituals, including growing beards, praying publicly and giving children Islamic names after a calf died allegedly at the hands of a Muslim boy, Telegraph reported. The report further stated that the youth was consequently barred from entering the village. The consultative body of the village also barredContinue Reading
Pakistan “remains ready” to discuss terrorism, he said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to PM Narendra Modi seeking to restart the “stalled dialogue process” between the two neighbours By Nidhi Razdan, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking that India and PakistanContinue Reading
By Rizwan Shehzad ISLAMABAD: Hours after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended the sentences against them, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law retired captain Mohammad Safdar were released on bail from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail Wednesday evening. Earlier in the day, a division bench comprising Justice Athar MinallahContinue Reading
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Except that the professionalism of the judiciary tends to decrease as one climbs down the judicial institutional ladder Written by Christophe Jaffrelot , Gilles Verniers The SC has a history of defending Muslims against the high courts of other states.While the percentage of Muslims in prison has never beenContinue Reading
The United Kingdom says it is working with Nigeria to fight corruption through the provision of technical assistance and equipment to key agencies fighting financial and economic crimes. UK Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Karen Pierce, said at the Security Council briefing on ‘Corruption and Conflict’ that the twoContinue Reading
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday it would “continue to do its work undeterred” a day after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton threatened sanctions if the tribunal investigated U.S. activities in Afghanistan. The Hague-based court said in a statement it was an independent and impartial institution withContinue Reading
