China and Pakistan have drawn closer after the latter has been the recipient of billions of dollars of investment from Beijing, particularly through Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative. Not only are the Chinese creating a military port on the coast of Pakistan, at Gwadar, they are also ensuring ...
KABUL: Long-awaited negotiations with the Taliban to settle the protracted conflict in Afghanistan may begin next week, officials told Arab News on Friday. It came a day after the Taliban chief negotiator said that no peace talks were planned with Kabul for early September.At a time when the two ...
A foster mother who was held at knifepoint by an Afghan father as he abducted his children from her garden has fled her home over fears he will come back and attack her.Neighbours told how the foster carer was no longer staying at her house in Coulsdon, south London, ...
KARACHI — Despite suffering the after-effects of the COVID-19 virus, Husna Gul, a staff member with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Pakistan, is committed to ensuring that as many children as possible are vaccinated against the devastating consequences of polio, which can cause muscle-wasting, paralysis and death.Polio vaccination ...
UNICEF has restarted vaccination campaigns in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two countries in the world where polio is endemic, following a hiatus imposed by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The restart has been accompanied by new guidelines, to help ensure the safety of patients, and health workers. ...
The mental health of cricketers confined to bio-secure bubbles during Covid-19 will be tested over the next two years, and Australia’s staff are working hard to prepare players for the challenges, limited overs captain Aaron Finch said on Tuesday. Finch will lead a 21-man squad to England for a ...
A national advertising campaign is to be launched by the government amid fears parents are afraid to send their children back to school in England next month. Boris Johnson has declared the reopening of schools a “moral duty” almost five months after they closed due to the pandemic, warning ...
Ministers have been accused of trying to cover up the findings from investigations into hundreds of health and social care worker deaths linked to coronavirus after it emerged the results will not be made public. The Independent revealed on Tuesday that medical examiners across England and Wales have been ...