FRANCE CRACKS DOWN ON MUSLIMS 28-10-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) KARACHI/ MELBOURNE: Where are the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Daesh or Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), …

28-10-2020 NEW DELHI: Facebook India’s Policy Head Ankhi Das has resigned two months after the social media giant was embroiled in a hate speech controversy in the country. The Wall Street Journal had accused Facebook of going easy on ruling party supporters who allegedly violated hate speech rules with anti-Muslim …

28-10-2020 RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) plans to cancel the foreign worker sponsorship system, also known as “Kafala”, and replace it with a new contract between employers and employees, KSA’s newspaper “Maaal” said on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. Saudi Arabia, which this year is chairing the Group of 20 …

28-10-2020 WASHINGTON: Democratic White House challenger Joe Biden blasted President Donald Trump as a conman during a campaign foray into traditionally Republican territory. In Georgia, Biden said that Trump’s handling of coronavirus amounted to a “capitulation”. Trump kept blitzing the swing states that he won in 2016, warning in Michigan …

Hyderabad Oct 28 (PMI): Markazi Juloos Chuptazia was taken out under supervision of Markazi Anjuman Matami Gurohaan (Regd) Hyd TS from Alawa e Yateema, Dabeerpura to Alawa e Sartooq Mubarak, Darulshifa Led by its President Janab Syed Najaf Ali Shoukat along with Vice-President Janab Mir Mazhar Alikhan , Joint Secretary …

27-10-2020 NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: India and the US have signed a military agreement on sharing sensitive satellite data amid Delhi’s tense border standoff with Beijing. Access to such data is considered vital for hitting missiles, drones and other targets with precision. The deal was announced after the annual “2+2” high-level …

27-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: An explosion at a religious school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed dozens people and wounded 109 others, police and health officials say. The blast occurred at the Speen Jamaat mosque, which also serves as a religious school …

27-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY/ ANKARA/ KARACHI: One or more male “White Terrorists” attacked another mosque in Australia and escaped from the scene easily while neither the police nor any other Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) could arrest the attackers even none of one country’s official, authority …

26-10-2020 DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT: An airstrike on a rebel training camp in northwestern Syria on Monday killed more than 50 Turkish-backed fighters and wounded nearly as many, a Syrian opposition spokesman and a war monitor said. The airstrike in the northwestern part of Idlib province, the last rebel enclave in Syria, …

26-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ ANKARA/ DHAKA/ TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ DAMASCUS: The backlash over French President Emmanuel Macron’s critique of Islam has intensified after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned his counterpart’s mental health, while Muslims in several countries are demanding a boycott of France. Marking his second …