18-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: General Frank McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, acknowledged that a US drone raid in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, late in August killed 10 civilians, including children. McKenzie said on Friday that it was “unlikely” that …

18-09-2021 WASHINGTON: Police say they have detected “some threats of violence” ahead of a planned right-wing rally in Washington DC on Saturday. Event organizers say it is aimed at supporting those arrested for taking part in the Capitol riots on 6 January. Security has been tightened in Washington ahead of …

18-09-2021 PARIS: France has recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations, in a backlash over a submarine deal. Australia on Wednesday cancelled a multibillion-dollar deal for conventional French submarines to enter a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with the United States and Britain in which it will obtain US …

17-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Interior Minister (IM) Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Thursday said that the Taliban should be given time to form a government in Afghanistan and run the country effectively. The minister expressed these views in a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner …

17-09-2021 BEIRUT: Four convoys carrying Iranian fuel have arrived in Lebanon under an initiative by the militant group Hezbollah to ease the country’s crippling energy crisis. Eighty Lorries with 4m litres (1.1m gallons) of diesel on board crossed the border from Syria, where a tanker is docked, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV …

17-09-2021 BEIJING: A group of more than 40 Muslim-American civil rights organizations in the United States announced on Thursday a campaign to boycott Hilton Worldwide over what they said is the corporation’s plan to construct a hotel on the site of a Uighur mosque bulldozed by authorities in China’s Xinjiang region. …

16-09-2021 PARIS: The head of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS also known as ISIL and Daesh) in the Greater Sahara, who was wanted for deadly attacks on US soldiers and foreign aid workers, has been killed in an operation by French troops. Adnan Abu Walid Al-Sahrawi was “neutralized …

16-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national security adviser has called on the world to “engage” with the Taliban’s caretaker government in Afghanistan or risk a return to the instability that characterized the group’s last era in power three decades ago. In …

16-09-2021 OCCUPIED WESR BANK: Two of the four re-arrested Palestinian political prisoners have told their lawyers they are being subjected to physical and mental abuse and torture by Israeli interrogators, in the first meeting they had with them since being taken into custody last week. Lawyers Khaled and Ruslan Mahajneh …

15-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRUSSELS/ WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The US has made it clear to Pakistan that it does not want Islamabad to recognise the Taliban government until it doesn’t give women their due rights and allows Afghans who want to leave the country, to …