International

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ RIYADH: Asian shippers and refiners have put ships heading to the Middle East on alert and are expecting a possible rise in marine insurance premiums after recent attacks on Saudi oil tankers and pipeline facilities, industry sources said on Tuesday. On Monday, armed drones attacked two …

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE: The most wanted criminals in the world are the persons you definitely don’t ever want to deal with at any point in your life. They are the most notorious and elusive criminals on earth and have evaded capture for years. Here’s a list of the top …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/ KARACHI: A delegation of the Russian Army came to Pakistan at the end of last year as joint military exercise in the northern part of the country. This was the third straight year the joint drill was held in Pakistan, with special strategic …

By SJA Jafri KARACHI/MELBOURNE: Pakistan’s former capital Karachi has become the most dangerous city of Asia because of its low ranking in digital, health, infrastructure and personal security ranked by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) as revealed by the Safe City Index (SCI) an initiative sponsored by the Economist Magazine …

By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Messenger) MELBOURNE/KARACHI: Masses across the globe declared and demanded that the Jafaria Disaster Management Cell (JDC) is really deserved for the Guinness World Record over its outstanding performances towards humanity especially oppressed people without any cast, create, culture, religion and sect since 2009 particularly regarding the arrangements …

By SJA Jafri {(Bureau Chief Australia),(Courtesy Messenger)} MELBOURNE: On the basis of this phenomenon that “Australia has humanitarian and legal obligations to accept refugees and reunite families, Australian society benefits from immigration” and having a policy that “immigration must be non-discriminatory”, the Greens’ Immigration and Refugees Policy has become not …

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as deash/ISIS) has claimed for the first time that it has established a “province” in India, a claim that authorities in India-administered Kashmir have denied and declared as “propaganda” while the sources …

RAWALPINDI  – Security forces on Sunday completed the clearance operation at Pearl Continental hotel Gwadar. According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), five individuals including four hotel employees and a Pakistan Navy soldier embraced martyrdom, during the operation, while six individuals were injured including two each Army Captains, Pakistan Navy soldiers …

News Desk WASHINGTON/MELBOURNE/KARACHI: After absolute assurance of ‘high authorities’ to the organizers of the sit-in of thousands of family and society members those were gathered in-front of the Pakistani President Dr Arif Alvi’s House situated in Karachi against hundreds of ‘unexpected missing, enforced disappearance, disbelieving abduction, dishonest detention, unethical misplaced, …

By SJA Jafri LONDON: A London mosque was on lockdown Thursday after a man carrying a gun tried to enter it during Ramadan prayers. Metropolitan Police confirmed that a big police presence will remain at the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford, north-east London. Worshippers at the mosque reportedly chased the …