Foundation Stone Laid for the First Hindu Temple in Pakistan’s Capital

On 23rd June 2020, the foundation stone for the first Hindu Temple in Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad was laid. The temple is the first to be constructed in Islamabad since the Independence of Pakistan. The temple will be devoted to Lord Krishna. The name of the temple will be Shri Krishna Mandir. The name of ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020

Category: Places in News Current Affairs

Topics: Islamabad • National Human Rights Commission • Pakistan • Sri Krishna Temple

India calls for 50% Staff Reduction after Pakistan violates Vienna Convention

On 23rd June 2020, within the next 7 days, the External Affairs Ministry of India has decided to reduce the staff strength of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad by 50% and has also directed the Pakistan Government to implement the same by reducing 50% of its staff from its Pakistan High Commission in New ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs

Topics: Indian High Commission • Islamabad • Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) • New Delhi • Vienna Convention

Pakistan Sponsoring Terror: United Kingdom

During an interactive session at the Raisina Dialogue 2020, on Thursday 16th January 2020 the United Kingdom (UK) foreign and commonwealth office director for South Asia, Gareth Bayley on the context of Pakistan being on the edge of being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FAFT) said that Islamabad should do more by taking ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020

Topics: FAFT • Financial Action Task Force • Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering • Islamabad • Pakistan • Raisina Dialogue 2020 • United Kingdom

Former Pakistan President sentenced to Death for Treason

The 10th President of Pakistan and military ruler, Syed Pervez Musharraf, has been sentenced to death by a three-member special court in the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad on Tuesday, 17th December 2019 for violating the constitution while he was in power as the President of Pakistan in 2007. The charge for unlawfully declaring emergency rule ..

Topics: Chief justice • Dubai • Emergency • general elections • Islamabad • opposition party • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Supreme court

Lt Gen Faiz Hameed: appointed Pakistan’s new ISI chief

Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, was appointed by Pakistan military as the new Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the military-led powerful spy agency. Though by convention it is the Prime Minister of country who appoints ISI chief in consultation with Army chief per the Constitution, bout in reality it is the Army who decides who he ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2019

Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News

Topics: DG ISI • Intelligence Bureau • Inter-Services Intelligence • ISI • Islamabad • Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed • Mullah-Military Alliance • Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa • Rawalpindi