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31 December:
A Pakistani-origin oncologist in
Arkansas forgave more than half a million dollars in outstanding debts form
nearly 200 cancer patients. The Arkansas Clinic, founded by Dr Omar
Atiq in 1991, provided cancer treatments ranging from chemotherapy and
radiation therapy and tests such as CAT scans. It had to shut its doors in
February 2020 due to a shortage of staff.
30 December:
The Ministry of Religious Affairs and
Inter-Faith Harmony removed Mufti Muneebur Rehman from the post of
chairman of Ruet-i-Hilal Committee and replaced him with Maulana Abdul Khabeer
Azad, Khateeb of Badshahi Masjid, Lahore.
30 December:
Tehran will pay $150,000 to every family
of the 176 victims killed when a Ukrainian passenger plane was mistakenly shot
down by Iran in January
30 December:
New Zealand become top-ranked Test nation
for the first time
30 December:
PAF launches serial production of latest
JF-17 Thunder Block III
29 December:
UK, Turkey sign £18b post-Brexit trade
deal. Britain announced it had signed an £18.6 billion ($25 billion)
trade deal with Turkey that “lays the groundwork” for a more comprehensive
post-Brexit agreement in the future.
29 December:
Karachi reported over 10,000 cybercrimes
in 2020: FIA
28 December:
The ICC Awards of the Decade winners
announced
Virat Kohli wins the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male
Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry wins the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female
Cricketer of the Decade
Steve Smith is ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade
Virat Kohli is ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry is ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
Rashid Khan is ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
Ellyse Perry is ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
Kyle Coetzer is ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade
Kathryn Bryce is ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade
MS Dhoni wins ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade
28 December:
A Saudi court sentenced prominent
activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison
for terrorism-related crimes
28 December:
Chinese astronomers
discover 591 high-velocity stars with LAMOST and Gaia. A research team, led by
astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of
Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars based on data from the
Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and Gaia,
and 43 of them can even escape from the Galaxy.
28 December:
Chief of the Naval Staff
Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi conferred the rank of honorary
lieutenant in the Pakistan Navy on Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman.
26 December:
Saudi Arabia’s oil exports to
China increased by 43 percent month-on-month in November 2020 to reach 8.48
million tons, or 2.06 million barrels per day (bpd)
26 December:
China will overtake the US to become the
world's biggest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast,
due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Centre for Economics and Business
Research (CEBR), a UK-based think tank, said in its annual World Economic
League Table 2020
26 December:
3.1 million motorists fined Rs751 million
for violating traffic rules in Karachi this year
26 December:
Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the
foundation stone of different projects including the university in
Chakwal’s Balkassar, 500-bed hospital, law college and Ring Road
25 December:
Legendary Urdu writer Shamsur Rehman
Faruqi succumbs to Covid complications
25 December:
Trump pardons of Blackwater contractors.
This pardon of four men convicted in killings of 14 Iraqis in 2007
undoes years-long fight for accountability. These include Nicholas Slatten,
Paul Alvin Slough, Evan Shawn Liberty and Dustin Laurent Heard
25 December:
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F)
expelled four members. The four ousted members include senior party
leader Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Gul Naseeb
Khan and Maulana Shujaul Mulk.
25 December:
Saudi Arabia appoints hundreds of women
to serve at Khana-e-Kaaba. The General Presidency for the Affairs of
the Two Holy Mosques has appointed around 1,500 females in its different
departments to serve female visitors
24 December:
Moldova's pro-EU former
prime minister Maia Sandu took the oath of office as the ex-Soviet
country's first ever woman president.
24 December:
Britain and the European Union struck a
free-trade deal that should bring a measure of certainty for businesses after
years of Brexit turmoil.Boris Johnson said the £668bn a year agreement would
"protect jobs across this country" and "enable UK goods to be
sold without tariffs, without quotas in the EU market".
23 December:
UK slaps £20,000 fine on Indian TV
channel over anti-Pakistan content
22 December:
A 9-year-old made more than $29 million
on YouTube last year and is the highest paid YouTuber for the third year in a
row
22 December:
Cricketer Muhammad Hafeez overtook K. L.
Rahul to become the highest run-scorer in calendar year 2020 in Twenty20
internationals
21 December:
Karachi University's Institute of Space
Science and Technology (ISST) observed the rare phenomenon of Jupiter
and Saturn, known as the "Great Conjunction"
20 December:
Nepal’s president dissolved parliament at
the request of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s cabinet and announced that
general elections would be held in April and May, more than a year ahead of
schedule.
19 December:
Iran, Pakistan open Rimdan-Gabd
cross-border gateway.The border crossing point between Rimdan in Iran’s
southeastern Sistan province and Gabd in Pakistan’s Balochistan province is
located about 120 kilometers from the Iranian port of Chabahar and 70
kilometers from Pakistan’s port of Gwadar
19 December:
Pakistan has reached at 0.88 points out
of 5 on cigarette tax scorecard of 170 countries which identifiably is lowest
in the region
19 December:
India’s ranking dropped to 111th
out of 162 countries in the Human Freedom Index 2020 report, released by
the Cato Institute, plummeting 17 spots from its position in the last
index.
18 December:
UN confirms Indian troops
targeted vehicle near Rawalakot on LoC
17 December:
Pakistan’s ranking on Human
Development Index (HDI) fell two notches and stood at 154th position in
accordance with the 2020 report out of total 189 countries.
17 December:
Muhammad Amir leaving cricket over
'mental torture' by current management
17 December:
Pakistan-born molecular biologist Asifa
Akhtar wins big at Germany's Research Foundation. The Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz Prize rewards a maximum of €2.5 million per award to its winners.
16 December:
Doha, Qatar will host the 2030 Asian
Games and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will stage the event in 2034 after a historic
and last-minute double election awarded both cities for their highly-regarded
projects
16 December:
Islamabad Zoo closed after Himalayan
bears Bubloo, Suzie flown to Jordan
16 December:
Man who designed the Kaaba door, Muneer
Al Jundi passes away in Germany. Engineer Al Jundi also has the honour of
having his name inscribed on the door of the Kaaba as a designer
16 December:
An Afghan Taliban delegation led by
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will arrive today
15 December:
Chile's army announced that 36 people at
the Gen. Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme Antarctic base have tested positive. The
pandemic has finally reached every continent on Earth.
15 December:
Armed groups, criminals and others have
carried out 66 massacres across Colombia this year - the UN
15 December:
China to open giant
telescope to international scientists from 2021
15 December:
Kabul Deputy Governor
Mahboobullah Mohebi has been killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s capital
city
14 December:
China approved coal imports
without restrictions except for those from Australia.
14 December:
US agencies hacked in months long global
cyberspying campaign - Revealed by company FireEye
14 December:
The United States removed Sudan from its
state sponsors of terrorism blacklist in less than two months after the
Arab nation pledged to normalise ties with Israel.
14 December:
Oil tanker 'attacked by bomb-laden boat'
in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The tanker company Hafnia reported that the BW
Rhine had been "hit from an external source whilst discharging at Jeddah
14 December:
US sanctions NATO ally Turkey over
Russian S-400 defence missiles
14 December:
Turkey appoints new envoy Ufuk Ulutas to
Israel after two years. In May 2018, Ankara recalled its ambassador
over violent attacks against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
12 December:
Iran executes dissident journalist
Ruhollah Zam for inspiring 2017 protests
12 December:
At UN summit, PM Imran Khan said Pakistan
to have 60% clean energy by 2030 Pakistan to plant 10 billion trees in the next
three years, PM Imran Khan assures UN.
12 December:
At UN summit, PM Imran Khan
said Pakistan to have 60% clean energy by 2030 Pakistan to plant 10 billion
trees in the next three years, PM Imran Khan assures UN.
11 December:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
jointly named Time's 'Person of the Year'
11 December:
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed made
interior minister
10 December:
French President Emmanuel
Macron gave his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al Sisi his country’s highest
award - Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
10 December:
Morocco agreed to become
the fourth Arab nation to normalise relations with Israel in as many
months, as part of a deal in which the US agreed to recognise its claim
over the disputed Western Sahara region
10 December:
China launches a pair of satellites to
observe electromagnetic signals emitted alongside gravitational waves at the
Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province
10 December:
A Lebanese judge charged caretaker
Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with criminal neglect over
the huge explosion at Beirut's port
10 December:
Russian navy to join first drill with
NATO members in 10 years
10 December:
Morocco, Israel agree to normalize ties.
Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in
the past four months
10 December:
Sindh CM adviser Aijaz Shah Sheerazi
passes away in Karachi from coronavirus
10 December:
Sindh CM adviser Aijaz Shah
Sheerazi passes away in Karachi from coronavirus
09 December:
COVAX, formally known as
The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, is a global collaboration for
speeding up the development, manufacture and equitable distribution of new
vaccines. Countries that sign on to COVAX will get access to a broad portfolio
of new vaccine candidates to combat the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19
09 December:
62nd Gwadar Day
celebrated in Balochistan. This day is celebrated every year to
mark the merger of Gwadar with Pakistan
09 December:
Afghan woman journalist Malalai Maiwand
shot dead in Jalalabad
09 December:
France’s draft law aimed at tackling what
the government terms “Islamist radicalism” was unveiled
09 December:
A new FATF-Egmont Group report launched
on Wednesday aims to help public and private sector with the challenges
of detecting trade-based money laundering
08 December:
China has turned on its nuclear fusion
reactor - which hopes to replicate the sun's heat and energy - for the first
time
08 December:
Karachi businessman Siraj Kassam Teli
passes away in Dubai
08 December:
Indian Army Chief General Manoj Naravane
is in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh till December 8
07 December:
World-renowned linguist and philosopher
Professor Noam Chomsky regretted Pakistan's drift away from science.
07 December:
Gen Chuck Yeager, 'Right
Stuff' test pilot who broke sound barrier, dead at 97. He was the first
person to fly faster than speed of Sound
07 December:
Pakistan backs Egypt's decision to move
international court against blasphemous French cartoons
07 December:
United States designated Pakistan,
China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Nigeria, North
Korea, Myanmar and Eritrea as "countries of particular
Concern" (CPC) under its International Religious Freedom Act.
07 December:
Sindhi becomes the first language from
Pakistan to be selected for digitization by the Universal Dependencies,
a combined project of Stanford University and Google
06 December:
President Nicolas Maduro won total
control over the country's legislature, the National Assembly (AN), and fully
consolidated his regime's grip on power in the country
06 December:
Sindh celebrates annual Sindhi Culture
Day
04 December:
China successfully powered up its "artificial
sun" nuclear fusion reactor. The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is
China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device,
It uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma and can reach
temperatures of over 150 million degrees Celsius
04 December:
Pakistan to start coronavirus vaccination
drive from April 2021
04 December:
President Arif Alvi announced that
Pakistan will be observing a day of prayer on December 4
03 December:
Global Teacher Prize 2020: Indian teacher
wins $1 million. Ranjitsinh Disale made an extraordinary announcement
that he will share half the prize money with his fellow top 10 finalists.
03 December:
The US space agency NASA
awarded contracts to four companies to collect lunar samples for $1 to $15,000
03 December:
Indian Spice King; Dharampal Gulati of
MDH group passes away at 97
03 December:
PM spells out 10-point action
plan to avert economic collapse in developing countries. At UN summit
on Covid response PM also called for reforming the international
financial architecture
02 December:
Intra-Afghan Negotiations: The two
sides recognized a three-page agreement that codifies rules and procedures
for negotiations on a political roadmap and a "comprehensive
ceasefire".
02 December:
Ex-prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan
Jamali passes away at the age of 76
02 December:
New Zealand promised its public
sector would become carbon neutral by 2025 as it declared a climate emergency
02 December:
Bangladesh begins moving Rohingya
families to remote island
02 December:
The Central Development Working Party
(CDWP) cleared five development projects at a cumulative cost of about
Rs54 billion including Rs38bn second phase of a project for laying cross-border
optic fibre cable with China.
01 December:
Pakistan approves $150m to procure
COVID-19 vaccine
01 December:
Pakistani lecturer Dr Mubashir Husain
Rehmani has been named in the world’s top 1% researchers in the field of
computer sciences. Rehmani is teaching at the Department of Computer
Science at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT)
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November 2020
30 November:
Leading Pakistani actress Sajal
Ali awarded for her contribution to film and television by the
Distinctive International Arab Festivals Awards (DIAFA).
30 November:
Kaavan, Pakistan's lonesome elephant,
starts new life in Cambodia
30 November:
GBLA elected Khalid Khurseed as new chief
minister
29 November:
China has powered up its first
domestically developed nuclear reactor — the Hualong One
28 November:
The United States has closed at least 10
bases across Afghanistan since the signing of a deal with the Taliban in February
- Washington Post
27 November:
47th session of the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers scheduled to
take place in Niamey on November 27-28
27 November:
Only one university from Pakistan has
made it to the top 100 QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) Asia University
Ranking for 2021. The National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
secured a spot on the list at 76.
27 November:
President Alvi proposed establishing
trade triangle between Pakistan, China & ASEAN
27 November:
Top Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh
assassinated: state media
26 November:
Pakistan joined the Digital
Cooperation Organisation (DCO), a Saudi-led initiative, aimed at promoting
digital cooperation among member states.
25 November:
'India most corrupt country
in Asia'. Transparency International survey reveals highest bribery
rate of 39% in the South Asian nation
25 November:
English cricket launched commission to
tackle racial inequality
25 November:
Greg Barclay elected as new ICC
chairman. Barclay, director of New Zealand Cricket since 2012, replaced
interim chairman Imran Khwaja
25 November:
Football legend Diego Maradona dies aged
60
25 November:
World Bank approves $19.8m aid to
Pakistan for education sector. For the country's response, recovery, and
resilience in the education sector amid the Covid-19 outbreak
24 November:
China launches Chang'e-5 mission to bring
back rocks from moon
24 November:
Mahira Khan and SAPM Dr. Sania Nishtar
featured on BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women list
24 November:
The Cabinet approved two approved bills
included "The Anti-Rape (Investigation & Trial) Ordinance 2020
& the Pakistan Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2020"
24 November:
India banned 43 mobile apps, including
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's e-commerce app Aliexpress, in a new wave of web
sanctions targeted at China
22 November:
The US formally left the Open Skies
defense treaty
19 November:
Australian special forces
involved in murder of 39 Afghan civilians, war crimes report alleges - Brereton
report
18 November:
Constable Zeena Ali is New
Zealand Police's first member to wear a specially designed hijab as part of her
uniform.
18 November:
Iraq, Saudi Arabia reopen Arar
border crossing after 30 years
17 November:
Charity says G20 states sold
weapons worth $17bn to Saudi Arabia since it joined Yemen war in 2015,
but gave a third of that amount as aid.
16 November:
Pakistan briefs P-5 envoys on India
dossier
16 November:
Syria's veteran foreign minister Walid
al-Moallem dies
16 November:
UAE to grant experts 10-year residence
visa to defeat Covid
16 November:
EU must assert autonomy in face of
US-China dominance, says Macron
12 November:
12 billionaires among 342 NA members: ECP
12 November:
The federal government has given the
go-ahead to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to probe a huge
banking fraud allegedly committed by a Dubai-based Pakistani-Norwegian
businessman and involving $101.2 million (over Rs16 billion).
12 November:
The Federal Board of
Revenue (FBR) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National
Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for real-time verification of
computerised National Identity Card and associated details.
11 November:
The Council of Common Interests (CCI)
unanimously agreed on launching a Rs350 billion project to tackle the
critical issue of malnourishment and stunted growth
11 November:
Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin
Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world's longest-serving prime ministers died at
age 84
10 November:
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia sign
agreement to end fight in Nagorno-Karabakh
10 November:
Russia brokered a new peace deal between
Armenia and Azerbaijan
10 November:
Six-year-old Arham Om Talsania has
earned a Guinness world record by becoming the youngest computer programmer. He
belongs to India
10 November:
Palestinian veteran negotiator Saeb
Erekat died on Tuesday of coronavirus complications at age 65
09 November:
ON Nov 9, Pfizer announced the interim
results for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate: more than 90 per cent
effective. A week later, Moderna reported its vaccine's
late-stage trial results of 95pc efficacy, followed by Russia's Sputnik
vaccine at over 92pc efficacy. Not to be left behind, the interim results for
the Oxford vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 70pc, which rose to 90pc
when the dosages were adjusted.
08 November:
UAE's Hope Probe set to reach
Mars on February 9, 2021
07 November:
Chinese
rocket firm Galactic Energy successfully sent a small satellite into
orbit with the first launch of its Ceres-1 launch vehicle.
07 November:
Harris bursts through
another barrier, becoming the first female, first Black and first South
Asian vice president-elect
07 November:
Joe Biden wins historic 2020 US
Presidential Election
06 November:
Sri Lanka rescues 120 whales after
country's largest stranding. Cause of mass strandings remains unknown
06 November:
New Zealand's Ardern sworn in for second
term
06 November:
US removes shadowy group East
Turkestan Islamic Movement from terror list blamed by China for
attacks. State department said 'no credible' evidence the exists
06 November:
European Union slaps sanctions on
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
05 November:
Kosovo's president resigns to
face war crimes charges in The Hague Hashim Thaçi was guerrilla leader
during 1990s war for independence from Serbia
05 November:
A Danish vaccine specialist has warned
that a new wave of coronavirus could be started by the Covid-19 mink variant.
05 November:
Lakhdar Bouregaa: Algeria war hero and
protest icon dies
04 November:
Pakistan, Bosnia sign accord for illegal
migrants’ return.
04 November:
Pakistan and the European
Union agreed to commence their bilateral security dialogue from next
year.EU-Pakistan Security Dialogue in 2021
02 November:
Prime Minister Imran Khan approved
the setting up of the National Intelligence Coordination Committee
(NICC), would be chaired by ISI Chief
02 November:
A journalist killed every four days
this past decade: UNESCO. Latin America and the Caribbean recorded 40
percent of of the total killings registered worldwide in 2019- UNESCO
02 November:
Azerbaijan claimed to have retake enough
land in Nagorno Karabakh war to resettle 500,000 Azeris
01 November:
China starts once-a-decade census
of world's largest population About seven million people will
drive the two-month data-collection effort, covering areas from downtown
Shanghai to remote Tibetan mountain villages.
01 November:
Veteran British journalist Robert Fisk
has died at the age of 74
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2020
30 October:
Armenia, Azerbaijan meet in Geneva for
Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks
30 October:
A strong earthquake struck between the
Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos
29 October:
The United States said it successfully
tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile
29 October:
Russia said that Armenia and
Azerbaijan should resolve the Karabakh conflict through negotiations within the
OSCE Minsk Group, which also includes Turkey.
29 October:
India outraged as bank note
issued by Saudi Arabia shows new borders for Kashmir
28 October:
Nearly 6,000 Afghan
civilians killed or wounded in 2020: UN
27 October:
China sanctions major
US defence companies after arms sales to Taiwan. Lockheed Martin, Boeing
Defense, Space & Security and Raytheon named along with US officials who
played a role in weapons sales.
27 October:
The Campaign Against Arms
Trade (CAAT) filed for a judicial review of the UK government's decision to
renew arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
27 October:
India and the US on Tuesday inked
a landmark defence agreement that will allow sharing of high-end military
technology, classified satellite data
26 October:
EU allocates Euro 1.15 mln assistance for
Pakistan flood victims
26 October:
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran's Oil
Sector. Sanctions on Iran's Ministry of Petroleum, the National Iranian
Oil Company for providing support to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,
that is designated as a terrorist group by the United States
25 October:
Hamilton overtakes Schumacher with record
92nd F1 win. Six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton became the most
successful Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins with a dominant
92nd career victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
25 October:
Lee Kun-hee, man behind Samsung’s rise
to tech titan, dies at 78 Twice pardoned for crimes including bribing
a president, Lee transformed Samsung into a global electronics giant.
25 October:
The Pakistan Navy signed a contract with
Turkey's military factory and shipyard corporation, ASFAT, in July 2018
to acquire four MILGEM-class ships. 3rd Turkish anti-submarine class ship has
been sledged as a part of this treaty
25 October:
Treaty to ban nuclear
weapons made official with 50th UN signatory. Production, use and stockpiling
of nuclear weapons illegal from January 2021
24 October:
Raoof Hasan made PM aide on information
24 October:
158 Pakistani peacekeepers sacrificed
lives for global peace, DG ISPR says on UN's anniversary
24 October:
Rayyan Air acquires PIA aircraft for
Pak-Urumchi cargo flights
24 October:
Erdogan says Macron ‘needs treatment’
over attitude to Muslims
24 October:
FATF keeps Pakistan in grey list till Feb
2021
23 October:
Pakistan desires to reactivate its antarctic
programme matter was raised in the fourth round of bilateral
political consultations between Pakistan and Argentina
23 October:
International donors pledge nearly $600m
to support Rohingya
23 October:
Washington convened Armenia-Azerbaijan
talks
22 October:
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has
started issuing the Islamic Naya Pakistan Certificates (INPCs) for
expatriates and residents who own properties abroad
22 October:
Saad Hariri returns as
Lebanon PM a year after resigning
22 October:
The United States is urging
countries that have ratified a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons to withdraw
their support as the pact nears the 50 ratifications needed to trigger its
entry into force
21 October:
State of Global Air 2020 report
claims Polluted air kills half a million babies a year across globe
21 October:
Australia has become one of the earliest
signatories to NASA's Artemis Accords, principles to promote
international collaboration.
21 October:
French government blocks U.S. LNG deal as
too dirty. The French trading firm Engie had been poised to sign the $7
billion, 20-year contract.
20 October:
Washington has removed Sudan from
a terrorism blacklist after the country agreed to pay $335m in compensation for its
alleged role in the bombing of two US embassies in east Africa by al-Qaida in
1998.
20 October:
In the 2020 Global Hunger Index, Pakistan
ranks 88th out of the 107 countries. While India ranks 94
in Global Hunger Index
20 October:
Mideast, Central Asia face a decade of
economic pain: IMF
20 October:
UN announces urgent donor
conference for Rohingyas.The UN has appealed for more than $1
billion to meet the humanitarian needs of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
20 October:
Israel, UAE sign four agreements
including visa-exemption deal, aviation, economic cooperation and
protection of investments.
20 October:
Germany issues
warrants for founders of Panama Papers firm
19 October:
Top US economist, Lawrence H Summers,
praises Pakistan's handling of pandemic ‘Heck, if the US had handled
the pandemic as well as Pakistan, we would have saved $10 trillion’
18 October:
Israel and Bahrain formalise relations at
ceremony in Manama
18 October:
Ms Ardern, 40, won the New
Zealand election by a landslide
18 October:
Longstanding UN ban on arms sales
to and from the Islamic republic expired in line with a 2015
landmark nuclear deal
16 October:
Italy adds Pakistan to "Decreto-Flussi"
work visa list.Pakistani workers in agriculture, tourism,
construction and freight forwarding sectors can avail this opportunity
15 October:
First exchange, of 1,000 political
prisoners, on flights to and from Saudi Arabia and inside Yemen, after two-year
UN/ICRC negotiations. These were captured during Yemen Civil War
15 October:
11m girls won't return to school
after coronavirus: UNESCO
15 October:
Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov
resigned
15 October:
Government approved 340,000 tons
of wheat import by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP), while
accepting the lowest bid of $284 per metric offered by a Russia-based
grain trader GTCS
14 October:
World Bank approves $12bn
to increase COVID vaccine accessibility in developing countries
14 October:
Lebanon and Israel take
up disputed maritime border in rare negotiations, after 4 decades
13 October:
Amy Coney Barrett: Trump
nominee testifies in Supreme Court hearing. She replaced Ruth Bader
Ginsberg who was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
from 1993 until her death in 2020
13 October:
Ecuador Indigenous group sues president
Lenin Moreno and other officials for alleged crimes against humanity
13 October:
NAB to investigate closure of Roosevelt
Hotel, losses borne by government
13 October:
Pakistan was re-elected to the United
Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) with an overwhelming majority,
securing 169 votes in the 193-member UN General Assembly
12 October:
Asia-Pacific Group keeps Pakistan on
enhanced follow-up list
12 October:
China Launches Its Gaofen 13
Satellite Into Orbit
12 October:
Tajikistan re-elects Emomali Rahmon
secured another seven-year term after garnering 90 percent of votes
12 October:
Nadal wins 13th French Open to claim
record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title
11 October:
the WTO will have the first
female chief in its 25-year history.
11 October:
The South Korean candidate
will now compete with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria, also a female,
for the top seat at WTO
11 October:
South Korean Trade Minister Yoo
Myung-hee has made it onto the shortlist of two finalists in the race to become
the new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
11 October:
Israel opposes US F-35 sale to
Qatar to 'maintain military superiority'
11 October:
Jaffar Shah, 70. PTI G-B chapter
president dies due to coronavirus
11 October:
First British Airways flight lands in
Lahore after four-decade hiatus
11 October:
Jamia Farooqia head Maulana Adil, driver
shot dead in Karachi
10 October:
The Roosevelt Hotel, a Pakistani
possession in the heart of Manhattan, would shut its doors on
guests permanently on Oct 31 2020
10 October:
TikTok banned in Pakistan
10 October:
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a
ceasefire and to begin "substantive talks"
09 October:
The United Nations'
World Food Programme has been announced as the winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize for the agency's "efforts to prevent use
of hunger as a weapon of war".
08 October:
Northern Cyprus reopens Varosha
beach for the first time in 46 years
08 October:
Greek court finds Neo-Nazi party Golden
Dawn guilty of running a criminal organisation
07 October:
Mexican economy needs years to recover
from virus: IMF
07 October:
Kuwait's new emir names Sheikh
Meshaal as new crown prince
06 October:
Pakistan has decided to file a case
against India’s claim of Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Basmati
rice in the European Union.
06 October:
The International Policy Centre
for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) has acknowledged Pakistan as one
of the top-ranked countries in Asia with the highest number of responses to
social protection
06 October:
Afghanistan top order batsman Najeeb
Tarakai has died from injuries following a road accident
06 October:
Kyrgyzstan PM Kubatbek Boronov,
resigned and was replaced by Sadyr Japarov, who was
elected in an extraordinary meeting in a hotel after being freed from
jail by protesters.
05 October:
Canada announced suspension of arms
exports to NATO ally Turkey as Ottawa investigates the alleged
use of its military technologies in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
04 October:
Sudan govt, rebel groups
sign deal
Daily Current
Affairs 2020 | Current Affairs Today | National & International Updates September
2020
30 September:
Russia to supply 25 million
doses of Sputnik V COVID-19 Vaccine to Egypt
30 September:
The United Nations Summit
on Biodiversity will be convened by the President of the General Assembly Today
29 September:
Kuwait ruler, longtime
diplomat Sheikh Sabah, dies at age 91
28 September:
The UK will hand back a 4,000-year-old
sculpture to Iraq after an investigation found that it had been looted
28 September:
Japan eyes using Moon-water-derived
fuel for exploration in 2030s
26 September:
Putin proposes election non-interference
pact with US
24 September:
Dean Mervyn Jones AM was an Australian
cricket player, coach and commentator. Died today in Mumbai India
24 September:
UAE introduces equal pay for men
and women in private sector
24 September:
Iran opens a new naval base named Shaheed
Rahbari base near the Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with US forces
24 September:
UK preparing human
rights sanctions against Belarus
08 September:
India overtakes Brazil with second
highest virus cases
08 September:
Strong protests in Belarus against
Belarusian Strongman Alexander Lukashenko
08 September:
China's Sinovac coronavirus
vaccine candidate in trials
08 September:
To China entire Arunachal
Pradesh is established illegaly on its territory
07 September:
Putin's rival, Russia's Alexei
Navalny out of coma.
06 September:
Libyan Dialogue - the talks brought
together five members of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA)
and five from a parliament in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk - commenced
in Rabat, Morocco
06 September:
Sudan declares 3-month state of
emergency over deadly floods
05 September:
The Afghan government has accepted a
proposal to put mothers' names on their children's birth certificates,
in a rare win for women's rights activists in the deeply conservative country.
04 September:
The 2020 Kosovo–Serbia agreement is
an agreement for the normalisation of economic relations between the
Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. Signed in Whitehouse on 4th
September 2020
Daily Current
Affairs 2020 | Current Affairs Today | National & International Updates August
2020
26 August:
Sima Kamil as deputy
governor of the State Bank of Pakistan for a period of three years. Her Prior
Position was CEO of UBL
24 August:
The lowest MMR(Maternal
Mortality Rate) of all regions in the country is in Azad Jammu &
Kashmir at 104 deaths, while in Gilgit-Baltistan it is 157
24 August:
With 157 deaths per 100,000 live
births, Punjab has the lowest MMR(Maternal Mortality Rate); followed
by KP at 165; then Sindh at 224; while Balochistan
has the highest, at 298 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
21 August:
Baloch nationalist leader Senator Mir
Hasil Khan Bizenjo has died at the age of 62
20 August:
PM Inaugurated Sehat Insaf
Card that will provide health cover of Rs1m to every
deserving family in KPK
20 August:
Trump Administration planning to pursue
F35 Sale to U.A.E.
16 August:
Pakistan has the second highest
deforestation rate in Asia. First is Afghanistan
16 August:
Only 5.7pc of Pakistan's total land is
under forest cover, in contrast to the recommended 25pc - WWF
16 August:
President Donald Trump's brother Robert
has died. He was 71.
10 August:
Beirut
blast blamed on the incompetence and corruption in the country, Lebanon's premier Hassan
Diab stepped down
10 August:
President-elect of
the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkir -
First Turkish to ascend to the Post
Daily Current
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2020
24 June:
Global trade set to shrink 18.5% in
second quarter: WTO
23 June:
China will be launching its GPS
rival Beidou - a £7billion global navigation constellation that
will give Beijing military independence
23 June:
United Nations orders probe into human
rights abuses in Libya, after discovering Tarhua Mass Graves
21 June:
Greece urged UK to return Parthenon
marbles which were stolen from early Athens
20 June:
Pakistan signs $1.5b loan
accords with WB, ADB, AIIB
18 June:
India, Mexico, Norway,
Ireland elected to UN Security Council for 2021 and 2022
13 June:
Nepal's lower house of
parliament on Saturday approved a new national emblem with a political map that
includes strategic territories disputed with its giant neighbour India
13 June:
Ukraine's First Lady Maryna
Anatolyivna Poroshenko Contracts Covid-19
04 June:
Global Vaccine Summit 2020 held in UK
Daily Current
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2020
23 July:
According to the Nuclear Security
Index for 2020 published by US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative Pakistan
ranked most improved in protecting nuclear materials.
22 July:
Bashar Al Assad's Baath party wins
majority in parliamentary polls in Syria
20 July:
The Sindh government proposes to
nominate late Sister Ruth Lewis, the Darul Sukoon in-charge who succumbed to
Covid-19 for Sitara-e-Imtiaz
10 July:
Erdogan declares Hagia Sophia a
mosque, The first prayers will be held in Turkey's Hagia Sophia on July 24
01 July:
President Donald Trump has approved
the withdrawal of 9,500 American troops from Germany
Daily Current
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2020
22 May:
The U.S. plans to withdraw from the Open
Skies treaty
10 May:
Zero turnout as Poland holds bizarre
ghost election amid virus lockdown
Daily Current
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2020
06 March:
Chinese firm Timesaco is
now set to expand its Tatu Mobility operations to Karachi to
provide Ride Hailing platform
05 March:
The City of London Corporation
(CLC) on Thursday revoked an honour granted to Aung San Suu
Kyi over the treatment of minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
05 March:
Pakistan ranks 76th on
internet inclusiveness
04 March:
Jalila Haider awarded for
being an International Woman of Courage
04 March:
Senate adopts Zainab
Alert, Response and Recovery Act 2020
03 March:
Government to assist people who earn less
than Rs25,000 in buying rations
02 March:
Undergraduate Scholarship Programme has
been initiated purely on government expenses under 'Ehsaas initiative
to ensure 50,000 deserving students' access to higher education annually
01 March:
Malaysia has a new prime minister Muhyiddin
Yassin was sworn in by the king.
Daily Current
Affairs 2020 | Current Affairs Today | National & International Updates February
2020
29 February:
China may send 100,000 ducks to battle
Pakistan's locust swarms
29 February:
The European Union will
provide a grant of €13 million for improving public sector financial
management in the federal and provincial governments of Sindh
and Balochistan.
28 February:
Pigeon flies from Rajanpur to Peshawar
in 7 hours and five minutes to win longest-ever race:The Peshawar
Racing Pigeons Association
18 February:
Pakistan conducts successful test of
air-launched cruise missile. Ra'ad-II, has a reported range of 600
kilometres
18 February:
Pakistan is expected to receive support
from 12 countries to exit the grey list, meanwhile China,
Turkey and Malaysia have already announced their supported for Pakistan
18 February:
UNSG Antonio Guterres
arrives in Lahore, to visit Kartarpur Gurdwara
15 February:
Asia Internet
Coalition (AIC) comprising Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Apple
and other tech giants called on the government to revise the new sets
of rules and regulations for social media
Daily Current Affairs 2019 |
Current Affairs Today | National & International Updates 2019
13 December:
The Switzerland Parliament has approved
to grant Pakistan, among 18 countries, to access its financial
data starting from 2021.
03 December:
Pakistan made $1 billion foreign
debt repayment
02 December:
Megan Rapinoe wins Women's Ballon d'Or
2019, Lucy Bronze second
02 December:
Lionel Messi claimed record sixth
men's Ballon d'Or award at the age of 32 in Paris. Messi has scored
46 goals in 54 matches so far in 2019, and netted 36 times in total in 34 La
Liga matches
02 December:
Those Six EU countries who have joined
INSTEX are:Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden
02 December:
165,000 suffering from HIV virus in
Pakistan. Which is a 369% increase since 2010
01 December:
Iraq's parliament on Sunday accepted the
resignation of embattled Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after
weeks of huge protests demanding better economic conditions and an
overhaul of the country's political system
27 October:
The Pentagon awarded
Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract named War Cloud,
snubbing early front-runner Amazon
20 October:
Australian carrier
Qantas has completed a test of the longest non-stop commercial passenger flight
as part of research on how the journey could affect pilots, crew and
passengers. The Boeing 787-9 with 49 people on board took 19 hours and
16 minutes to fly from New York to Sydney, a 16,200-km (10,066-mile) route.
20 October:
Pakistan Navy has joined the Trans-Regional
Maritime Network based in Italy. Trans-Regional Maritime Network has 32
countries its members.
20 October:
PM Imran to inaugurate Kartarpur Corridor
on Nov 9
20 October:
Pakistan among top 10 countries for
Japan hiring.Dr Arif Alvi would be arriving in Japan to participate in the
coronation ceremony
19 October:
Qatar moves to announce abolishment of
kafala system
06 October:
Alagba, 344-Year-Old Tortoise,
"Oldest" In Africa, Dies
04 October:
EU allocates 300,000 euros to
provide emergency relief to victims of Sep 24 earthquake
03 October:
Pakistan loses Hyderabad Fund Case as UK
top court favours India. The Case: pertains to $39 million
that were transferred to Pakistan by the then Nizam of Hyderabad Osman
Ali Khan
27 September:
World Bank lists Pakistan among top 20
global reformers in Ease of Doing Business
Six European countries join barter system
for Iran trade(INSTEX) INSTEX barter mechanism: which is designed
to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the
dollar
19 September:
World's migrant
population now at 272 million - out of which 17.4 million are of
Indian Origin, UN report
19 September:
The German city of Dortmund
has withdrawn its decision to award a British Pakistani writer Kamila
Shamsie a literature prize, citing her support for the
pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
15 September:
World's largest cantilever takes shape
in Dubai
15 September:
Waseem, who is now ranked ninth in the
world in the World Boxing Council (WBC) Flyweight Rankings, has set his
sights on breaking into the top five before he goes for the world title.
15 September:
India to offer Russia $1 billion loan
to develop Far East
15 September:
Polling booths have closed in Tunisia,
which is holding its second free presidential poll since the 2011
uprising that toppled ex-president Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring.
12 September:
NASA joins ISRO to aid in establishing
contact with Vikram moon lander
12 September:
Former captain of Pakistan's women
cricket team Sana Mir has been selected for prestigious Asia Game
Changers Award by the Asia Society.
12 September:
Water Discovered on Exoplanet: Eight
times the mass of Earth and twice as big, K2-18b orbits in its star's
"habitable zone" at a distance — neither too far nor too close —
where water can exist in liquid form
04 August:
The United States has imposed fresh
sanctions on Russia over the 2018 poisoning of former double agent
Sergei Skripal, an attack which took place in the United Kingdom.
04 August:
Saudi Arabia launches 5G
service in Makkah, other holy sites
02 July:
Shaikh Khalid Bin Sultan,
son of Sharjah Ruler, died in London
01 July:
As climate change
worsens, growing heat stress on workers in agriculture and other
sectors will cause a productivity loss equal to 80 million full-time jobs over
the next decade, the UN
29 June:
Pakistan to offer scholarships to around
3000 Afghan students
07 June:
Panama has been placed back
on an international money laundering watchlist by the FATF
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