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New Delhi, India: The tourism will increase as the easing restriction said business tycoon Mohamed Ali Janah. He also thanked India for helping his country in the hour of need when and sending covid relief.   “We have had almost 600,000 tourists coming to Maldives under very difficult circumstances. Most of the tourists come to Maldives from Russia followed by India,”. “Because of the high numbers of COVID-19 patients in this part of the world, the government temporarily closed the borders, but then now they again open so I’m sure that India would overtake Russia. I would say that Russia and India saved Maldives, during these very difficult circumstances,” he said. Talking about India as an investment destination, Janah elaborated that business communities from both countr...

CHITRAL: The locals of the of Yurjogh village in Lot Koh valley have complained that the government is suooprting the local leader of the ruling party PTI in grabbing public land. They said that the government had also approved a huge amount of Rs40 million for irrigation project on the said piece of land. Addressing a press conference, the villagers including Wazir Khan, Mufti Israruddin, Haji Mohammad Nawaz, Sher Wali Khan and others said that the piece of land was a pasture near their village that was a public property as given in the gazette notification of 1975. They said that the irrigation project would render their village Yurjogh vulnerable to landslide. They added that the geological survey carried out by Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Pakistan in 2002 unambiguously ...

Washington, US: The former American military commander in Afghanistan in Afghanistan said that US might regret the withdrawal of its troops in such way as the condition is worsening with every passing hour.   Speaking on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," General David Petraeus on Sunday said, "The situation on the ground has become increasingly dire with each passing week. The on-ground situation in Afghanistan has become dreadful in the last few weeks with large number of Afghan National Security Forces dying in battle with the Taliban. These forces are not sure if someone is coming to their rescue, which has caused uncertainty in the battlefield, CNN reported citing former Gen Petraeus. "I fear we will look back and regret the decision to withdraw," Petraeus said. "Beyond that, ...

Islamabad, Pakistan: The opposition has lashed on the ruling party jamaat-e-Islam and the leader of the country Imran Khan for not able to find a missing person and decrease the poverty in Balochistan region.  Lashing out at Prime Minister Imran Khan, Jamaat-e-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has failed to end poverty, resolve missing persons' issue and restore law and order in Balochistan, despite completing three years of its rule. Dawn reported that the Jamaat-e-Islami chief on Thursday said that there was no difference between the Imran Khan-led country's government and previous governments of PPP and PML-N in destroying the economy by taking massive foreign and internal loans. The former senator said that clean drinking w...

LAHORE: Since 2014, foreign engineers in Pakistan had been faced attacks on them. In May 3, 2004, a car bomb in Gwadar had killed three engineers from China, a suicide bomber had killed 11 French engineers in Karachi in 2002. The recent incident took place in Kohistan, which claimed a dozen lives including that of nine Chinese nationals, the Pakistani government said the bus carrying Chinese and Pakistani construction workers plunged into a ravine from a slippery mountainous road The claim raised many a eye-brow on the social media platforms, knowing country’s foes like India have been spewing venom against the US$62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, which is a paradigm shift for the country due to building of network of roads, railways, hydro-power projects and ...

Kabul, Afghanistan: The USA having a dialogue with Turkey regarding the handing over of the security of Kabul Airport after the withdrawal of the US Troops from Afghanistan which is opposed by Taliban. A spokesperson of the group said that the Taliban are against the presence of any foreign troops after the given deadline for their withdrawal from Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported. “If they remain within the framework of NATO or Turkey or any other country, it will not be acceptable both for the people of Afghanistan and for the Taliban,” former Taliban commander Sayed Akbar Agha said. The US and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces are slated to complete the drawdown by August 31. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that a deal has been agreed upon the post-...

Hong Kong: European Parliament resolution of denouncing closure of the China’s pro democracy newspaper Apple Daily has been opposed by China. "Under the national security law in the HKSAR, Hong Kong society has returned to stability, the rule of law and justice have been upheld, and the extensive lawful rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents have been better protected in a more stable and secure environment," the Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said in a statement. The spokesperson also accused European Parliament of "distorted facts with ulterior motives." This comes after European Parliament on Thursday had adopted with a landslide majority urgent resolution denouncing the closure of A...