On March 7, 2017, Minister for Defence, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, said thatPak-Afghan border was rightfully closed. ‘We are committed to take every step to defend our country’, he remarked. Asif said that “terrorists” were operating from Afghanistan and it was obligatory to ensure the safety of the people.

News: Former Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri commended Malaysia's initiative to host a seminar to address sexual crimes against children. Megawati attended the National Seminar on Child Sexual Crimes which was inspired by the Prime Minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, was timely in view of the problems currently plaguing the world. Meanwhile, Rosmah said Megawati's presence at the seminar would be the starting point of cooperation between women of the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a truce in Syria is on the whole being observed, as he welcomed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow, adding that he is cautiously optimistic about the prospects of a deal to end the six-year Syrian conflict. (Source: Al Jazeera)

The far-right Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, is campaigning in the Dutch elections on an anti-Islam platform, and Republican US Congressman Steve King of Iowa ‘tweeted’ support for his racist agenda on the 12th of March: “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.