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Pakistan-Iran agree to boost trade volume to $10 billion

Amir Hamza Shaukat
Pakistan-Iran agree to boost trade volume to $10 billion

Pakistan-Iran agree to boost trade volume , including those for the energy and trade sectors, have been signed during the two-day visit of the Iranian president. Pakistan and Iran have signed agreements pledging to raise bilateral trade to $10 billion and committing to work more closely to eliminate the terrorism in favour of peace and prosperity in the region. “We have set a target of $10 billion in trade and hope to achieve it as soon as possible,” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said. The Iranian president said, “My deep…

Wildfires in Turkey Turn Deadly Amid Brutal Heatwave

Amir Hamza Shaukat
Wildfires in Turkey Turn Deadly Amid Brutal Heatwave

Wildfires in Turkey have overtake for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing more than 1,700 people to flee their homes. Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa in northwest Turkey spread rapidly, tinting the night sky over the city’s eastern suburbs with a red glow. Dozens of severe wildfires have hit the country daily. Bursa governor’s office said in a statement Sunday that 1,765 people had been safely evacuated from villages to the northeast as more than 1,900 firefighters battled the flames. Wildfires in Turkey have killed at…

World Reaction: Israel air strikes Syria’s Damascus

Amir Hamza Shaukat
World Reaction: Israel air strikes Syria's Damascus

World reaction after Israel air strikes syria’s damascus near the Defence Ministry and presidential palace in Syria’s capital. syria condemn Israeli attacks, denouncing the strikes as a dangerous escalation, brought many days of unrest in the Suweyda region. Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli strikes on thursday. “The new wave of violence in Syria is deeply concerning,” the ministry said in a statement. “The Russian side has repeatedly condemned Israel’s arbitrary use of force in Syria. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Israel’s air strikes. Turkiye’s Ministry of Foreign…

Iran’s President orders to suspend cooperation with UN nuclear

Amir Hamza Shaukat
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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian put into effect on Wednesday a law pass by parliament last week to suspend cooperation with the U.N. nuclear. the IAEA, Iranian state media reported, likely further limiting inspectors’ ability to track Tehran’s program that had been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels. The order by Iran’s President included no timetables or details about what that suspension would entail. Iran has limited IAEA inspections in the past as a pressure tactic in negotiating with the West though as of right now Tehran has denied that there’s any immediate…

Major Questions Raised! Iranian Retaliation, a sudden Ceasefire?

Amir Hamza Shaukat
Major Questions Raised! Iranian Retaliation, a sudden Ceasefire?

The Middle East has experienced a dramatic series of events from an unprecedented U.S airstrike on Iran using its most powerful non-nuclear weapons, to a swift Iranian Retaliation targeting the largest U.S. air base in the region, culminating in a tentative truce that many hope will ease tensions between Iran and Israel and restore regional stability. As the crisis unfolded overnight into Tuesday, both the region and the international community looked on with concern. Yet by morning, there was cautious optimism that what U.S. President Donald Trump referred to as…

Russia President Putin visits Kursk region for first time since ejecting Ukrainian forces

Amir Hamza Shaukat
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Russia President Vladimir Putin has visited the border region of Kursk for the first time, since Russian forces ejected Ukrainian troops from the area last month, the Kremlin said. Ukrainian forces made an incursion into the Kursk region in August 2024 in one of their boldest battlefield successes in the more than three-year war. It the first time Russian territory was occupied by an invader since World War II. Since the end of 2023, Russia has mostly had the advantage on the battlefield, with the exception of Kursk. At the…