Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force Seized Over 3,000 Kg Drugs

ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), conducted 34 operations in different parts of the country over the last week, seizing 3,000.65 kg of drugs and 4,820 litres of prohibited chemicals, the ANF said. During the counter-narcotics operations on Nov 21-27, the force arrested 32 people, including two…

Iran Summoned French Envoy Over FM’s “Unacceptable” Remarks

TEHRAN, Dec 1 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry, yesterday, summoned Nicolas Roche, the French ambassador to Tehran, over the French foreign minister’s “unacceptable” remarks in the French National Assembly. In the meeting, the Iranian side strongly protested against the French Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna’s “baseless accusations,” and criticised some…

Iran Handed Down Death Sentences To Four “Mossad-Linked Thugs”

TEHRAN, Dec 1 (NNN-ISNA) – The Iranian judiciary, announced yesterday, four members of a “thugs network, linked with Israeli intelligence service, Mossad,” who were arrested in the country in late May, have been sentenced to death. Those members of the “Mossad-led network” were charged with stealing and destroying both public…

Iran, Iraq Signed 4-Bln-USD Contract On Technological, Engineering Services

TEHRAN, Dec 1 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran signed with Iraq a contract worth four billion U.S. dollars, to provide technological and engineering services to the Arab country, it was reported here yesterday. The contract can help cover some of the shortfall in Iran’s exports to Iraq, in the fiscal year ending…

Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand To Jointly Nominate Kebaya For UNESCO Heritage List

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Dec 1 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand will jointly nominate kebaya, for inscription on the UNESCO Representative List, of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, local media reported, yesterday. Kebaya is a traditional form of women’s dress in the region, which became highly fashionable at…

Four Killed, 26 Injured In Pakistan’s Suicide Blast

ISLAMABAD, Dec 1 (NNN-APP) – Four people, including a policeman, were killed and 26 others injured, in a suicide attack in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province, yesterday, the provincial health department, said. The other deceased, including two kids, and their mother, and the injured people were shifted to…

India Lifted Ban On Rice Exports After Three Months

NEW DELHI, Nov 30 (NNN-PTI) – The Indian government has lifted the ban, imposed nearly three months ago, on exports of organic non-basmati rice, including broken rice, said an official notification, by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), issued late yesterday. A part of the federal Ministry of Commerce…

Bus accident killed Three, injured dozens in northern Thailand: local media

BANGKOK, Nov 30 (NNN-TNA) – A bus accident has killed at least three people and injured more than 40 others, in Thailand’s northern province of Tak, local media reported, today. The bus was carrying migrant workers from Myanmar, to a factory in Thailand’s Songkhla province, when it crashed through the…

Two Killed, 24 Injured In Suicide Blast In South-West Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (NNN-APP) – A suicide blast hit a police truck today, in Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province, killing two people and leaving 24 others injured, a police official said. Deputy Inspector General of Quetta police, Ghulam Azfar Mahesar, said that, a suicide bomber exploded…

Cambodia Recorded Over 1.57 Million Foreign Tourists In 10 Months

PHNOM PENH, Nov 30 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia attracted more than 1.57 million international visitors, in the first 10 months of 2022, according to a tourism ministry’s report today. During the Jan-Oct period, Thailand topped the chart of international tourist arrivals to Cambodia, the report said. It added that, 35.5 percent…