International

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/LOS ANGELES: A terror plot by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and planned to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks were thwarted, federal prosecutors said Monday. Mark Domingo, 26, an infantryman who served a combat …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/KARACHI: Thousands of family members of hundreds of missing persons including women, children aged, ill and disables have begun staging sit-in outside the residence of President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi situated in Karachi’s Muhammad Ali Society while, neither the President nor any other …

By SJA Jafri {(Bureau Chief Australia), Courtesy Messenger} SYDNEY/MELBOURNE: What a mockery has become the routine of the world especially of Aussies that Australia’s all most wanted persons are not only non-Muslims but also most of them are ‘whites’ but the Muslims declare terrorists worldwide? A Roll Call of killers, …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies COLOMBO/MELBOURNE: Sixteen people including six children have died during a Sri Lankan security forces operation in the aftermath of the Easter attacks, as three-cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police have said. The three men set off explosives, also killing …

By SJA Jafri NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: An Israeli professor disclosed in a recent lecture series at Columbia University that Israeli authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children. Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at Israel’s …

By SJA Jafri +Agencies WASHINGTON/MELBOURNE: On the basis of victim families and aggrieved persons’ statements, vocal and written documentary evidence and contradictions of officials and unofficial proclamations, media reports and sources’ claims, many media outlets across the world including Press Media of India (PMI), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Press TV, …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies DAMMAM/MELBOURNE: US-bound student among 37 innocent Shia Muslims were brutally beaten and tortured before beheading on Tuesday while, after cutting heads-off, bodies of some people were also displayed at the prominent public places of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to spread fear and to show …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/CANBERRA: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi Shia Muslims, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and the severed head of a convicted extremist to a pole as a warning to others. The executions …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies COLOMBO:  At least 138 people have been reported to be killed and hundreds more injured in a series of explosions targeting churches holding Easter services and hotels in Sri Lanka. PMI put the death toll at 160. Most of the dead are believed to have …

14 more passengers murdered after identification in Pakistan By SJA Jafri ORMARA/QUETTA: At least 14 people have been killed after gunmen ambushed a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, according to government officials. “They were all bullet injuries, most were shot in the head,” Dr Muhammad Musa, a government health official …