International

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 …

By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri {(Bureau Chief Australia), Courtesy Messenger} MELBOURNE: In continuation of a report of Messenger, published on April 12, 2019, a large number of people from all over the world have said that where, the terrorism, criminalism, barbarism, kidnapism and anti-religionism have become the identity of the …

SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/WASHINGTON: Reporters Without Borders (RWB) condemned the trumped-up charges of online terrorism and defaming “respected institutions” on which a Pakistani reporter is due to appear in court of Karachi tomorrow. The case has been designed to intimidate and silence Pakistan’s journalists, RSF said. Shahzeb Jillani, an investigative reporter …

By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri {(Bureau Chief Australia), Courtesy Messenger} KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ MELBOURNE: If anyone claims that Karachi has become peaceful and the Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) have controlled the terrorism, target killing, bomb blasts, sectarian violence, political and religious unrest, kidnapping for ransom, collection of extortion money, street …

  PM directed the provincial government to provide best medical facilities to the victims. QUETTA Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday has expressed grief over the deaths of innocent people in Quetta blast. In a statement, the premier condemned the attack and summoned report from the authorities concerned. He also directed …