UN ends peacekeeping mission in Darfur region
KHARTOUM: The United Nations and African Union have ended a 13-year mission to maintain peace in the Darfur region of Sudan. Fighting erupted in Darfur in 2003, when ethnic minority rebels rose up against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, which
FM Qureshi congratulates UAE on Mars mission
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has congratulated the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the successful launch of the first Arab interplanetary mission. During a telephonic conversation with his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the foreign minister
UAE launches historic Mars mission
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates celebrated in the early hours of Monday morning the launch of its “Hope” probe to Mars, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation. The long-anticipated blast-off of the unmanned spacecraft at 6:58 am local
WHO sends team to China on coronavirus origin mission
GENEVA: World Health Organisation (WHO) has sent an epidemiologist and an animal health specialist to China to try and identify the animal source of the new coronavirus pandemic. The WHO said the advance team would be in Beijing for the
Iran’s satellite mission fails in blow to space program
TEHRAN: Iran said that launched satellite on Sunday as “successfully,” but failed to put it in orbit, in a blow to its space program that the US claims to be a front for missile production. Long-standing animosity between Tehran and
PAF jet crashes while on training mission near Shorkot
JHANG: Pakistan Air Force (PAF) spokesperson on Friday has said that a trainer aircraft crashed near Shorkot, in Jhang district Punjab, the pilot was safe in the incident. The PAF spokesperson said, the Mirage plane was on a training exercise
Christina Koch to return to earth after one year of space mission
ALMATY: U.S. astronaut Christina Koch is expected to return to Earth on Thursday, having broken the space flight record for female astronauts after spending nearly a year at the International Space Station. The 41-year-old Michigan research engineer broke the previous
PAF jet crashes while on training mission near Mianwali
MIANWALI: PAF spokesman said on a training mission on Tuesday that two pilots embraced martyrdom as a plane from Pakistan Air Force (PAF) crashed near Mianwali. “Pakistan Air Force regrets that a PAF FT7, aircraft crashed near Mianwali while on
Army Chief Gen Bajwa practises F-16 combat simulation mission
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday visited Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Base Mushaf in Sargodha, the military’s media wing said. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said General Bajwa was taken into the squadron and