International

By SJA Jafri LONDON: “We are repeatedly given advice that if we stop protesting, end our activism against enforced disappearances and sit at home, our Baba will come back.” In April 2017, Hidayatullah Lohar, school teacher (headmaster), blacksmith and political Sindhi activist was forcibly disappeared from the school where he taught. …

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE: Today (Sunday), 5th of May 2019, the moon of Ramzan 1440 has not been sighted anywhere in Australia. Therefore, the members of National Hilaal Committee Australia (NHCA) of Australia have declared the month of 1440 will begin from Tuesday, 7th of May 2019 while, according to a statement released …

By SJA Jafri World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference. Since then, 3 May, the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek is celebrated worldwide as World Press Freedom Day. It is an opportunity to: celebrate the fundamental principles …

By SJA Jafri CANBERRA/WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she’s getting married, less than a year after having a child in office. Ardern, 38, and longtime partner Clarke Gayford, 41, became engaged while on holiday in the North Island over the Easter break, a spokesman for her …

By SJA Jafri CANBERRA: Antony Catalano says he plans to “grow the business, not shrink it to greatness” after buying the regional publishing group which includes The Canberra Times. The former Chief Executive of the Domain real estate platform and billionaire Alex Waislitz’s Thorney Investment Group will pay Nine Entertainment …

By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Messenger) SYDNEY: “Dozens of Muslims representatives across the world have warned all Islamophobians to change their mindset not only against Islam but also Muslims and change their lives according to their own religion otherwise either they would have to face severe consequences or convert their beliefs …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) CANBERRA: A Liberal candidate will be disendorsed by the party over an online rant that attacked Muslims as people of “bad character” who were plotting to kill and enslave other Australians. Jeremy Hearn, the Liberal candidate in the Labor-held Melbourne seat of Isaacs has …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/KARACHI: Over 700 more Shia Muslims of Karachi have been kidnapped by ‘na-maloom afraad’ (unknown personnel) or so-called officials during current year but neither no one knows about their whereabouts nor none of one state’s authority answers that where they are, who kidnapped them, are they …

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 …