International

09-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ PEWHAWAR/ KARACHI: In a late night development, much to the relief of citizens across Pakistan that had been waiting to see a speedy redressal of the grievances of the Hazara community, it was announced that the 10 …

08-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ MACH: The Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan, Imran Khan announced on Friday that he will not be blackmailed into coming to Quetta and would visit the mourners, including women and children, sitting along with bodies of 11 Shia martyrs in extreme …

08-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Democratic leaders have called for Donald Trump to be removed from office after a group of his supporters violently stormed the Capitol. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi directly accused President Donald Trump of inciting “armed insurrection” against the United States. “This president has committed an unspeakable assault …

08-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports MACH/ QUETTA/ KARACHI/ PESHAWAR/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD: Millions of Shia Muslims’ sit-ins against the Machh massacre continued for the sixth day on Friday in Pakistan over hundreds of different places of big and small cities and towns, the leadership of opposition parties converged on …

07-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as …

07-01-2021 WASHINGTON: Unprecedented scenes of mob violence unfolded in Washington on Wednesday in what observers described as an attack striking at the very heart of American democracy. Encouraged by US President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric regarding the validity of the 2020 US election results, armed mobs broke into the United …

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Despite efforts made by the federal and provincial authorities, thousands of mourners belonging to the Shia Hazara community, who have blockaded a highway here with the bodies of slain coal miners, have refused to end their sit-in which entered the …

06-01-2021 LONDON: Julian Assange has been refused bail by a judge who ruled in his favour days ago, by blocking the United States’ attempt to extradite him. Wednesday’s ruling by District Judge Vanessa Baraitser at London’s Westminster Magistrates Court means the WikiLeaks founder will continue to be held at the …

06-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the rebuilding of a Hindu temple that was badly damaged by an angry mob near the northwestern town of Karak last week. During a hearing in the capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed ordered …

06-01-2021 DOHA/ KUWAIT/ AL-ULA (SAUDI ARABIA): The Emir of Qatar on Tuesday arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit where he was greeted at the airport by the kingdom’s Crown Prince (CP) Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) with a tight embrace. Gulf leaders also signed a …