PM Imran Khan gives go-ahead to fill 1,000 vacant posts in FIA
- 09-Mar-2021
FIA will hire 831 constables, 150 inspectors and deputy inspectors
Libyan coastguard picks up almost 1,000 migrants in one day
- 25-Jun-2018
TRIPOLI: Libyan coastguards picked up 948 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations and also recovered 10 bodies on Sunday, officials and a witness at a naval base said. The operations brings the number, since last week, of mainly African migrants trying to head to Italy but brought back to Libya to almost 2,000. […]
Death toll tops 1,000 in assault on Syria’s Ghouta: monitor
- 11-Mar-2018
DAMASCUS: More than 1,000 civilians have been killed since Syria’s government launched a brutal offensive on the rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta enclave nearly three weeks ago, a war monitor said on Saturday. “The death toll has gone up to 1,002 civilians, after eight people were killed today in Harasta and Arbin,” said the Syrian Observatory for […]
Bitcoin slides by over $1,000 in less than 48 hours
- 11-Nov-2017
LONDON: Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 on Friday to trade more than $1,000 down from an all-time high hit on Wednesday, as some traders dumped it for a clone called Bitcoin Cash, sending its value up around a third. Bitcoin has been on a tear in recent months, with a vertiginous sevenfold increase in value since […]
WATCH: Over 1,000 tiny chicks abandoned, left to die in a field
- 19-Feb-2017
PETERBOROUGH, UK: Around 1,000 tiny chicks were found abandoned in a field in Cambridgeshire, county in England. The one-day-old baby birds were discovered by a member of the public on Friday, running around in Crowland, near Peterborough. The RSPCA have since launched an investigation to find out who left the chicks to die. ‘I […]
More than 1,000 militants from Iran killed in Syria: official
- 23-Nov-2016
DAMASCUS: More than 1,000 combatants sent from Iran to fight in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria have been killed in the conflict, the head of Iran’s veterans’ affairs office said Tuesday. “The number of martyrs from our country defending the shrines has now passed 1,000,” Tasnim news agency quoted Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahalati, […]
More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in June: UN
- 24-Jun-2014
GENEVA: More than 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed and roughly the same number injured in fighting and other violence in Iraq in June as Sunni militants swept through the north, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Victims include a number of confirmed summary executions committed by forces of the Islamic State of Iraq […]