02-09-2021 ABUJA: Nigerian police say ISIL gunmen have abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest, in the latest in a series of school attacks targeting pupils. Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement that a large group of attackers stormed the Government Day Secondary School …

02-09-2021 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Israel has said that the United States’ plan to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem is a “bad idea” and could destabilize Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government. The previous administration of US President Donald Trump signaled support for Israel’s claim on Jerusalem as its capital by moving the …

01-09-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI/: United States President Joe Biden, in a televised speech, said the US pullout in Afghanistan was the “best decision”, adding that the choice was either to withdraw from the country or escalate the conflict. “I was …

31-08-2021 Bureau Report MANILA/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani microfinance pioneer, who developed an interest- and collateral-free microfinance program, a Bangladeshi scientist, and a Filipino fisherman were among Tuesday’s winners of what is Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in 1957 to honor people and groups tackling …

31-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air in celebration in the Afghan capital as the United States completed the withdrawal of it forces from Afghanistan, nearly twenty years after it invaded the country following the September 11, 2001 …

30-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: The operations at the Kabul airport were unaffected after rockets were fired at Kabul airport Monday but were intercepted before they could do damage. US President Joe Biden was briefed on the rocket attack at the Hamid Karzai …

30-08-2021 NEW DELHI: In India, a society rooted in patriarchal traditions, marriages are sacrosanct and it is not a crime for a man to rape his wife but in recent weeks, courts have given conflicting rulings on marital rape, leading to renewed calls from campaigners to criminalize rape within marriage. …

30-08-2021 BEIJING: China has announced a ban on written exams for six and seven-year-olds. It’s the latest effort to try and relieve pressure on parents and students in a highly competitive education system. Students used to be required to take exams from the first year of primary school, up until …

30-08-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: A US drone attack struck a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from ISIL’s (ISIS) Afghanistan affiliate before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, American officials have said. There were few initial details about …

SANA’A: At least 30 soldiers have been killed and 60 wounded in Houthi attacks on a military base belonging to forces of the Saudi-led coalition, a spokesman for Yemen’s southern forces said. Sunday’s attack on the al-Anad military base in the government-held southern province of Lahij was carried out using …