International

By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Messenger) MELBOURNE/KARACHI: The practice of social work focuses on more than day-to-day patient assessment. Today’s social workers are advocates, community developers, and human rights activists. The social work profession is committed to social justice. Social workers fight for oppressed communities and marginalized individuals, often forgotten about by …

Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has enforced a complete ban on top mediators those were involved in negotiations between different Taliban groups and both Pakistani as well as Afghani governments during the last eight years while the Afghan Taliban rejected reports in the Pakistani media that they were prepared to resume meetings …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/WASHINGTON: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today published a list of 94 journalists and media staff killed in work-related incidents during 2018. The new death toll marks a slight increase up from 82 killings recorded last year and represents a reversal of the downward …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE: An Indian-born Australian man who stabbed his new Melbourne wife to death after Australia Day drinks has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Lesley Ann Taylor today sentenced Douglas Derick Eustace, 44, to a minimum of 20-years for actions …

  At least seven people, including a man who assisted in solemnising the wedding of two teenage Hindu girls after their alleged abduction and forced conversions, have been detained in Pakistan, amid reports that the victims approached a court seeking protection. The two girls, Raveena (13) and Reena (15), were allegedly kidnapped by …

By SJA Jafri MONTERAL: A priest has been injured in a stabbing attack during morning mass at a church in Montreal that was being broadcast live online and on television.  At around 8.40am, Father Claude Grou was conducting the service at Saint Joseph’s Oratory when the attacker, who has not …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) WILLINGTON/CHRISTCHURCH: The House of Saud known as Aal-e-Saud, the ruling Royal Family of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has never condemned any “white terrorism” nor allowed to react or protest its nation against any non-Islamic country even issued any formal official statement against Israeli …

By SJA Jafri BIRMINGHAM: FIVE mosques in Birmingham have been damaged in anti-Islamic attacks following the killing of 50 people at worshippers at two New Zealand mosques last week. A sledgehammer-wielding man was seen smashing windows at two mosques in Britain’s second city Birmingham and three more have been similarly …

By SJA Jafri UTRECHT (Netherlands): Several people were injured after a shooting in a residential area in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, police said.  The shooting began at 10.45am local time (9.45am GMT) when a gunman opened fire on a tram on 24 Oktoberplain.  Three air ambulances were scrambled to …

BRISBANE: Queensland man has allegedly rammed his car into a mosque south of Brisbane less than a day after terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch. A 23-year-old Browns Plainsman had been suspended from driving after allegedly returning a positive roadside drug test in Stockleigh yesterday. Police allege he went back …