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US approves sale of $15bn missile system to S. Arabia

October 8, 2017October 8, 2017 News Desk

US Sale $15bn missile system to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON: The US State Department has approved the sale of an anti-missile defence system to Saudi Arabia at an estimated cost of $15 billion to enhance the kingdom’s military capabilities, the Pentagon announced. The approval opens the way for Saudi Arabia to purchase 44 Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) launchers and 360 missiles, as well as fire control stations and radars. This sale, valued at up to $15 billion, is part of the $110 Billion package of defence equipment and services initially announced during President Donald Trump’s visit to…

Norway doesn’t support nuclear abolishing treaty for which ICAN to get Nobel Prize

October 8, 2017October 8, 2017 News Desk

Norwegian Government Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN

Report by Syed Sibtain Shah This year of Noble Prize became critically debated even in Norway where government has declared that it will not support abolishing of nuclear treaty at United Nation. Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee has announced that it has decided to give Nobel Peace Prize 2017 to ICAN for its struggle against nuclear weapons. ICAN has so far proposed a treaty at UN for ban on productions and use of nuclear weapons. At least 50 member countries of UN agreed to sign the agreement. The International Campaign for…

Denmark will forbid face-covering (Niqab) in Public

October 7, 2017October 7, 2017 News Desk

Ban on Naqab in Denmark | Ban on wearing Burka in Denmark

Overseas Tribune Report: Denmark will introduce bill in the parliament for banning on use of face-covering cloth (Niqab), as Austria, France and Belgium have done it before. The proposal for such a ban is promoted by extreme right wing group Danish People’s Party which will primarily target Muslims’ garments like nikab and burka. Also Read:Kashmir Council EU to hold ‘Kashmir-EU Week’ at EU parliament next week Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke of Rasmussen of Centre Right-Liberal Party Left supports the proposal, but emphasizes that it will only effect cover clothing…

Kashmir Council EU to hold ‘Kashmir-EU Week’ at EU parliament next week

October 7, 2017October 7, 2017 News Desk

Kashmir Council EU would launch a week long programme on Kashmir at European Parliament in Brussels on 9th October 2017. The programme would be continued till 12th November. Addressing a press conference at eve the program, Chairman Kashmir Council EU Mr Ali Raza Syed said, The ‘Kashmir EU Week’ would be comprised of an International Conference, seminars, debates and a photos and handicraft exhibition on Kashmir. President World Kashmir Diaspura Alliance Europe Ch Khalid Mahmood Joshi, Prominent Kashmiri Leader Sardar Sadique and Chairman Kashmir Info MirshahJahan were also present during the press…

Nobel Peace Prize of 2017 goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017 News Desk

Noble Peace Prize 2017 to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Oslo (PR) Norwegian Nobel Award Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons. We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time. Some states are modernizing their nuclear…

Actors behind Iran’s nuclear agreement on top of the list for Nobel Prize

October 4, 2017October 4, 2017 News Desk

Report by Syed Sibtain Shah The characters behind the Iran’s nuclear agreement are at the top of the list of the candidates who are being considered to get this year’s peace prize. Quoting Asle Sveen, a historian of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian News Agency NTB reported that “The Iran Agreement covers everything contained in Alfred Nobel’s will, such as peace, disarmament and association among the people. This year, a total of 318 people and organizations have been proposed as candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. The speculation about which…

Norway’s meat producer looks for alternative Halal certificate as it mistrusts in IRN

October 3, 2017October 3, 2017 News Desk

Islamic Council Norway Nortura Agreement

Nortura, the Norwegian largest meat producer has announced to end its agreement of halal meat certification with Islamic Council Norway (IRN) and now it is looking forward to engage alternative organization for halal certification. The Oslo based Nortura which produces and sells meat and egg products in Norway, has been engages in slaughtering, cutting, processing, and egg packing activities, as well as the provision of advisory services since 1896. Since 2006, Nortura had an agreement on halal certification of certain products with IRN. The agreement implies reading a gratitude for…

58 dead, 515 injured in Las Vegas concert shooting

October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 News Desk

A gunman on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 58 people and wounding more than 515, officials said on Monday. It was the worst mass shooting in the modern United States (US) history. Police officers stop a man who drove down Tropicana Ave. near Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Ave, which had been closed after the mass shooting at a country music festival. ─ AFP Country music star Jason Aldean was performing…

Uprising in Kashmir

October 2, 2017October 2, 2017 News Desk

The approaches of Indian policies appears to have shaken up the Kashmiris to their centre as they now riot to confront the monstrous military forced on them by the biggest majority rule government in the World India without dreading the results. Presently for India that is the critical step to swallow. The current uprising in Kashmir activated in the midst of the murder of Burhan Muzaffar Wani a dissident renegade because of Indian armed force back in summer 2016. The dissents that took after were subjected to merciless viciousness by…

The 2017 RAFTO’s Prize to Parveena Ahangar and Imroz Parvez of Kashmir

September 28, 2017September 29, 2017 News Desk

Special Report by Overseas Tribune RAFTO’S Prize of Norway will go to Parveena Ahangar and Imroz Parvez of Kashmir for their decades of campaigning for human rights in the Indian Held Jammu and Kashmir. The statement of RAFTO foundation of Norway said, Parveena Ahangar and Imroz Parvez have long been at the forefront of the struggle against arbitrary abuses of power in a region of India that has borne the brunt of escalating violence, militarisation and international tension. Also Read:Norwegian Pakistanis play active role in a drive for donation for…

No Indian boots on the ground in Afghanistan, says defence minister

September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 News Desk

India will not deploy troops in Afghanistan, its defense minister said on Tuesday but promised to boost support for a new United States (US) strategy in the war-torn country. After talks with US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, Nirmala Sitharaman said India was prepared to increase training for Afghan personnel and develop infrastructures such as schools and hospitals. “India’s contribution has been on these counts and we shall expand if necessary,” she told a news conference with Mattis. “However, as we have made it very clear, there should not be boots…

Erdogan accuses Myanmar of ‘Buddhist terror’ against Rohingya

September 25, 2017 News Desk

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the security forces in Myanmar of waging a “Buddhist terror” against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. Erdogan, who has repeatedly highlighted the plight of the Rohingya, again accused the Yangon government of carrying out a “genocide” against the people in Rakhine state. In a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan lamented the failure of the international community to lay sanctions against the Myanmar government over its campaign. “There is a very clear…

Norway: Extremists run Indian Government today, says Tariq Ali

September 25, 2017September 25, 2017 News Desk

Report by Tariq Mohammad UK based Left Wing famous activist of Pakistan’s origin Tariq Ali has accused that the current Indian government is being run by the extremists. He was talking at a seminar on Politics, History and Culture which was organized by Melahuset in Oslo, the capital city. Tariq Ali has been a leading figure of the international left wing since the 60s. He is writing for the Guardian newspaper since the 70s. He is also a long-standing editor of the New Left Review and a political commentator…

‘Eternal Chancellor’ Angela Merkel wins fourth term

September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 News Desk

Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched a fourth term in Germany’s election on Sunday, but her victory was clouded by the hard-right AfD party winning its first seats in parliament. Merkel, who after 12 years in power held a double-digit lead for most of the campaign, scored around 33 percent of the vote with her conservative Christian Union (CDU/CSU) bloc, according to exit polls. Its nearest rivals, the Social Democrats and their candidate Martin Schulz, came in a distant second, with a post-war record low 20-21 percent. But in a bombshell for…

Firing rockets at US inevitable after ‘mentally deranged’ Trump’s UN speech: North Korea

September 24, 2017 News Desk

North Korea’s foreign minister assailed United States President Donald Trump at the United Nations on Saturday, deriding him as a “mentally deranged” leader whose threats had increased the chances of military confrontation. Ri Yong-ho told the General Assembly that Trump’s vow to “totally destroy” his country if necessary had made “our rockets’ visit to the entire US mainland all the more inevitable.” Describing Trump as a “mentally deranged person full of megalomania,” Ri said the US leader who “holds the nuclear button” posed “the gravest threat to international peace and security today.”…