23-10-2020 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia will allow a few hundred more citizens and permanent residents to return home from overseas each week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, in slight relaxation of a policy that has become the target of increasing criticism. Since July, the government has capped …

23-10-2020 DOHA/ CAIRO: Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has spent 1,400 days in prison under arbitrary and illegal detention by Egyptian authorities without trial or conviction. An Egyptian national working for the Al Jazeera Arabic television channel in Qatar, Hussein was arrested in Cairo on December 23, 2016 while on …

22-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An Afghan military air raid targeting Taliban fighters has killed at least 13 people, including children, and wounded 14 in an attack that hit a religious school and mosque in the northeastern province of Takhar, provincial officials said. In an account …

22-10-2020 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei denounced recent normalization deals between a few Arab states and Israel, saying Muslim nations will never accept the humiliation of compromising with the Zionist regime. In a tweet late on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei added that Americans are badly mistaken …

22-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + BBC VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has said that he thinks same-sex couples should be allowed to have “civil unions”. He made the comments, which observers say are his clearest remarks yet on gay relationships, in a documentary directed by Evgeny Afineevsky. “Homosexual people have a …

22-10-2020 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Almost 75% Americans fear violence and riots will break out after the US Presidential Elections 2020 are held, revealed a poll by The Independent on Wednesday. A JL Partners-Independent poll revealed how 72% of American respondents said they were very or quite concerned about post-election violence. Interestingly, …

21-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ NANGARHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens Afghans have been killed and several injured in a stampede near a Pakistani consulate in eastern Afghanistan. The stampede occurred in a stadium in Jalalabad city where thousands of Afghans had gathered to secure visas from the consulate, officials …

21-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: China’s official military newspaper has said that India has returned a Chinese soldier who had strayed across a contested de facto border in the western Himalayan region where both sides have been locked in a tense standoff. The soldier …

Hyderabad Oct 21 (PMI): Confusion and Mayhem is being created in the Shia Community of Hyderabad by a group of people with vested interest. Many dignified personalities and educated youth are of the opinion that this mission is being supported to create unrest in the Shia community internally and trying …

21-10-2020 BERLIN: A Muslim doctor was denied German citizenship after refusing to shake hands with the woman presenting his certificate, according to reports. The Lebanese man was set to become a German citizen after 13 years in the country, but he fell at the last hurdle after refusing to shake …