International

02-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Al Jazeera KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: People across Afghanistan celebrated Eid on Sunday, but for millions of Afghans, it was yet another day of struggle to bring food to the table. More than 90 percent of Afghans have been facing a shortage of food, …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI: India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives. Successive …

02-05-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia will discuss the option of extending the terms of its $3bn deposit in Pakistan’s central bank to help Islamabad’s faltering economy, according to a joint statement. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has provided Pakistan with $4.2bn of support in the form …

02-05-2022 LONDON: A British legislator from the governing Conservative Party resigned after admitting he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons chamber. Neil Parish, a Member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision on Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse …

01-05-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhunzada appeared for only the second time since taking control of the Taliban in 2016 to tell worshippers celebrating Eid al-Fitr that the Taliban had achieved freedom and security since seizing power last year. Flanked by security, …

01-05-2022 KYIV: The runway at the main airport in Ukraine’s Odesa has been destroyed in a Russian missile attack, officials said, as Ukrainian forces in the east of the country fought village by village to hold back Moscow’s advance. In a late-night video address on Saturday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …

01-05-2022 CALIFORNIA: Local police in the US state of California have decided to award Bilal Shahid, a young Pakistani (who belongs from Karachi) for saving a life of a 72-year-old elderly citizen. According to reports, the elderly citizen Billy Kiyabu, who is a resident of Livermore, fell on the sidewalk …

01-05-2022 Bureau Report AHMEDABAD/ NEW DELHI: Indian authorities seized 90 kg (198 lbs) of drugs worth $58 million from a port in the western state of Gujarat, a police officer said on Saturday, and the third such haul in two weeks. Friday’s seizure was made from a container that arrived …

01-05-2022 RIYADH/ ABU DHABI: The moon sighting authorities of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) did not sight Shawwal crescent on Saturday, and as a result, the countries will mark Eid ul Fitr on Monday. “The Crescent of Shawaal 1443 was NOT SEEN today, subsequently, the month of …

30-04-2022 LONDON: A British lawmaker suspended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party following accusations that he watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons debating chamber has said he opened the explicit content in error. Neil Parish was suspended as a Conservative lawmaker on Friday after reporting …