Tag: Kyrgyzstan
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Situation in Bishkek under control, suspects will be punished according to law: Kyrgyz Ambassador
Kyrgyz Ambassador Ulanbek Totuiaev has said that the situation in Bishkek is under control, and that suspects charged with violence will be punished according to the law. During a media briefing in Islamabad, he asserted that the news shared on foreign media social networks were completely baseless, especially in Pakistan. The ambassador reiterated that on…
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Panicked govt brought students back from Kyrgyzstan over fake news, says journalist Azaz Syed
Journalist Azaz Syed in his political talk show ‘Talk Shock’ recently revealed that the government of Pakistan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring back students from Kyrgyzstan over “fake news and propaganda” while no other country did that. Syed said, “A panic spread over social media over fake news due to which students…
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More than 350 students return from Kyrgyzstan
Over 350 Pakistani students have landed in Lahore and Islamabad from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Two of the three special flights landed at the Islamabad and Lahore airports on Sunday night, with 180 students on board each plane.The third plane was also expected to land later in the night. At the Islamabad airport, the students who arrived…
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Government condemns ‘political party’ for propaganda in Kyrgyzstan incident
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on May 19 condemned a political party, a thinly veiled reference to PTI, for spreading disinformation and negative propaganda online regarding the Kyrgyzstan incident in which mobs attacked Pakistani students. The minister exclaimed that “wrong news” was being spread on social media by a single political party to “humiliate the government”…
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No Pakistani confirmed dead in Kyrgyz capital mob violence
Foreign students including Pakistanis are being targeted by locals in the aftermath of a fight with Egyptian nationals in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. As per news circulating on students WhatsApp groups, three students have died, many have been subjected to violence while 20-25 have been kidnapped but none of this has been confirmed by the Pakistani Embassy.…
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Kyrgyzstan to remove ‘fickle’ sunflower from flag
Kyrgyzstan’s supreme council (Jogorku Kenesh) on November 29 supported a bill on changing the state flag in its first reading in parliament after 66 deputies voted for and eight people’s representatives voted against the document. President Sadyr Japarov had recently criticised the design, saying that its central element looked more like a sunflower which in…
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India invites Pakistani FM Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to SCO
In a surprise move, India has invited Pakistan’s Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to attend an upcoming meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) scheduled to be held in Goa in May, The Indian Express has reported. The invitation to the meeting of SCO ministers has been sent by the office of S Jaishankar, the…
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Lahore tops the worst air quality list, again
Lahore on Wednesday topped the list of the most polluted cities in the world with the worst air quality levels. India’s Delhi is second on the list, Poland’s Krakow and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek are placed in third and fourth spot respectively while Bangladesh’s Dhaka is on number five according to the air pollution data released by…