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Demonstrators hold a candlelight vigil to condemn a deadly attack on tourists near Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s scenic Pahalgam, in Srinagar April 23, 2025. — ReutersSecurity forces in IIOJK detain thousands of people since attack.Kashmiris return to their homeland out of fear of rising hostilities.”Kashmiris always have to prove innocence,” says journalist.While Pakistan and India are caught up in the rising tensions at the Line of Control (LoC), Kashmiris across India are facing rising violence following last week’s deadly attack that killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).According to the BBC,…

Vehicles wait in a line before making their way to Pakistan at the Attari-Wagah border crossing near Amritsar, India April 30, 2025. — ReutersBan takes effect immediately, says official.Pakistan also blocks imports from India.Trade between two nations dwindles.NEW DELHI: India said it has banned the import of goods originating from or transiting via Pakistan as diplomatic tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations flared in the wake of a deadly attack on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir (IIOJK) region.India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade in a notification said the ban will take effect immediately. “This restriction is imposed in the…

Florence Pugh gets honest about filming ‘Thunderbolts*’Florence Pugh has become a Guinness world record holder after jumping from the second tallest building in the world, Merdeka 118 while filming Thunderbolts*.During an interview with Variety, she candidly discussed her experience of filming the stunt action in which she jumped off over 2,000 feet tall building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “I wanted to do that stunt because I knew that it meant that we all got to do it. Like, yes, I got to jump off the second-tallest building in the world, but so did we all,” the We Live In Time…

A person holds a volleyball. — Reuters/FileKARACHI: The Central Asia Volleyball Association (CAVA) has relocated its Men’s Nations League to Uzbekistan after some countries expressed reluctance to travel to Pakistan amid tensions between Pakistan and India, officials confirmed Thursday.The tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Islamabad from May 29 to June 4. However, following concerns raised by multiple teams, CAVA shifted the event while keeping the dates unchanged. The decision was finalised during CAVA’s Annual General Meeting on April 25 in Nepal, where member nations cited the strained environment between Pakistan and India as the primary reason for…

Blake Lively supports new film amid Justin Baldoni lawsuitBlake Lively is thrilled over her “unhinged” new project.Her film, Another Simple Favor, a sequel to the 2018 movie, A Simple Favor reached the number one spot globally on Prime Video. The 37-year-old Gossip Girl alum took to her official Instagram to upload a story, just a day after she referred to her legal battle against It Ends With Us co-star, Justin Baldoni, as “intense.”Sharing an image of herself along with her 2025 film co-star, Anna Kendrick, Lively captioned her upload, “Thank you all for watching @asimplefavor.” ‘We’re all so proud of…

Islamabad, Pakistan – Eleven days after gunmen shot 26 people dead in the scenic valley of Baisaran in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam, India and Pakistan stand on the brink of a military standoff. The nuclear-armed neighbours have each announced a series of tit-for-tat steps against the other since the attack on April 22, which India has implicitly blamed Pakistan for, even as Islamabad has denied any role in the killings. India has suspended its participation in the Indus Waters Treaty that enforces a water-sharing mechanism Pakistan depends on. Pakistan has threatened to walk away from the 1972 Simla Agreement that committed…

ABU DHABI/Wam, sponsored by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidency Bureau, the capital Abu Dhabi is preparing to host the Get Summit 2025), which will be held on May 5 and 6 in the St. Regis Hotel Al Saadiyat Island, organized by the AdRC (ATRC), and in the strategic partnership with the Public Prosecution For the United Arab Emirates. This summit comes at a very important time, as the world witnesses a fundamental shift by techniques such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and web 3, which imposes…

Journalists rally against what they call, curbing press freedom and controlling the digital landscape, during a protest in Islamabad on January 28, 2025. — ReutersDrop driven by economic pressures on news organisations.PFUJ offical slams Peca tweaks, Punjab govt’s defamation law.President Zardari reaffirms resolve to promote free press.KARACHI: Reflecting the issues with press freedom and freedom of expression, Pakistan has dropped to 158th spot on the 2025 World Press Freedom Index with the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) describing the situation as the worst global press freedom conditions in history, The News reported on Saturday.In its latest index — released on Friday…

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party wear morph suits and wave flags during an event. — Reuters/FileGermany’s spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as “extremist”, enabling it to step up monitoring of the country’s biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a “blow against democracy”.A 1,100-page experts’ report found the AfD to be a racist and anti-Muslim organisation, a designation that allows the security services to recruit informants and intercept party communications, and which has revived calls for the party’s ban. “Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept…