At a meeting in Islamabad, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved four road infrastructure projects worth 130 billion rupees for Punjab. Asad Umar, Minister for Planning and Development, said in a tweet on Monday that the road projects include Kamalia-Shorkot-Chowk Azam-Layyah, Hasilpur-Bahawalnagar, Vehari-Pakpattan-Debalpur, and Shorkot-Jhang. TheRead More →

In unlawfully occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian soldiers killed five Kashmiri youth in Pulwama and Budgam districts in new acts of state terrorism. Four young were killed during a cordon and search operation in the Naira region of Pulwama district, while one juvenile was killed during an operation in theRead More →

US labour officials have filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of employing intimidation and surveillance against its workers in a New York City warehouse who were attempting to form a union. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that Amazon questioned workers about union activitiesRead More →

BEIRUT, LEBANON (AP) — According to a Kurdish official, US-backed Kurdish-led troops searched near a Syrian prison on Friday for Islamic State militants and issued an ultimatum to dozens of armed extremists holed up in a tiny section of the facility to surrender or face an all-out attack. According toRead More →