30-10-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI/ GOA: Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, has been released from a jail in Mumbai after he was arrested during a cruise ship drugs bust in a case that has gripped India. Aryan, 23, the eldest son of the actor …

30-10-2021 WASHINGTON: A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court, of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-called “war on terror”. Majid Khan, a former resident of a Baltimore suburb, detailed being water-boarded, physically and sexually …

29-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ LONDON: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), an independent organization but under the direct supervision of ‘Pakistani State’ administrative control usually known as ‘a tool’ that has been using against opponents and anti-state particularly impartial media outlets of Pakistan has …

29-10-2021 WASHINGTON: The Department of Justice announced an $88m settlement on Thursday with victims of a white supremacist who shot dead nine Black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015. The settlement stems from allegations that the FBI was negligent when it failed to prohibit the sale of a gun by …

29-10-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: India has tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the defence ministry said, in what media called a “stern signal” to China as the two remain locked in a border spat. …

29-10-2021 KHARTOUM: Security forces have clashed with protesters furious over a military coup that derailed a fragile transition to democracy and sparked an international outcry, with the United States and United Nations dialing up the pressure on Sudan’s new military government. At least one protester was killed on Thursday, according …

28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Senior officials of Afghanistan’s neighboring states have gathered in Iran’s capital for a one-day conference to discuss the situation in the Taliban-ruled country. The foreign ministers of Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan met on Wednesday in Tehran, …

28-10-2021 PARIS/ LONDON: France has seized one British trawler for operating in its territorial waters without a licence and fined another as a bitter dispute with the United Kingdom over post-Brexit access to fishing grounds escalates. The French maritime ministry said the ships were cautioned during checks by maritime police …

28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Al Jazeera) NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Last week, Hindu right-wing forces in India forced a leading firm to withdraw its festive season advertisement after it featured a couple of words from the Urdu language, which in the popular imagination in the country is a “Muslim language”. …

28-10-2021 RIYADH/ DUBAI/ DAMASCUS: Saudi Arabia and the UAE have summoned Lebanon’s ambassadors to protest against Information Minister George Kordahi’s criticism of the Riyadh-led military coalition fighting rebels in Yemen. Kordahi said during an interview aired on Monday that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels are “defending themselves … against an external …