✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed gratitude to several world leaders, including former U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for their efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
2. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal recently held “forward-looking” discussions with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, focusing on a mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreement (BTA) between India and the US.
3. India has firmly rejected Pakistan’s allegations of its involvement in the recent Jaffar Express train siege in Balochistan, labelling the claims as baseless and an attempt to deflect attention from Pakistan’s internal issues. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson, Rahdnir Jaiswal, emphasised that the international community is well aware of Pakistan being the “epicentre of global terrorism” and urged Islamabad to introspect rather than shift blame for its domestic failures.
4. Mauritius Foreign Minister Dhananjay Ramful has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi, crediting him for India’s rapid rise enroute to becoming the world’s third-largest economy in the near future.
🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Astronaut Sunita Williams, along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, is expected to leave the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than March 19, according to NASA’s latest updates. Their prolonged stay on the ISS, which began in June 2024, was initially intended to be just eight days but was extended due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
2. The recent hijacking of the Jaffar Express in Balochistan has starkly highlighted Pakistan’s failing strategy in the region. On 11 March 2025, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) derailed the train, which was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar, and took control of it in the Mashkaf region of Bolan, Balochistan.
3. Days after the hijacking of the Jaffar Express by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a new wave of violence struck Pakistan when Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) launched a suicide attack on a military base. The attack occurred near the Frontier Corps (FC) camp in South Waziristan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
4. Pakistan army on Friday said that 18 of the 26 hostages killed by Balochistan Liberation Army militants, who ambushed a train in Balochistan, were army and paramilitary soldiers.
5. The leader of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister said on Friday, describing him as “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.”
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