International

19-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least six Shia Afghanis including students have been martyred and dozens wounded after two blasts targeted a boys’ school in the Afghan capital’s Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, a Kabul police spokesman has said. Khalid Zadran told media on Tuesday that two improvised …

19-04-2022 ISTANBUL: Turkey has launched a new air and ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq, defence minister Hulusi Akar said. Commando units and Special Forces, backed by unmanned aerial vehicles and attack helicopters involved in Operation Claw-Lock, are targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hideouts in the Metina, Zap …

19-04-2022 STOCKHOLM: Police in Sweden say they have arrested at least 26 people in the wake of weekend clashes in the cities of Norrkoping and Linkoping against the planned burning of the holy Quran by a far-right group, with at least three injured in police firing in Norrkoping. Eight people …

19-04-2022 NEW DELHI: A prominent Muslim organization has filed a plea in India’s top court, urging its intervention as properties of mainly Muslims accused of violence are bulldozed by the authorities in states governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has filed a petition in …

19-04-2022 VINNYTSIA/ KYIV: Nana Grinstein fled Russia because the Kremlin’s new laws punishing criticism of its so-called “special operation in Ukraine” may land her in jail. Grinstein, a playwright, her husband Viktor, a video editor, and their 14-year-old daughter, Tonya, left behind the hysteria in Russia caused by the war …

18-04-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: At least ten churches have been targeted in an Easter crime spree, with cameras capturing a brazen thief stealing from parishioners’ midway through a service in Melbourne. It’s understood that one of the crimes was committed during a Saturday service at Saint Haralambous Greek Orthodox Church …

18-04-2022 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: President Ebrahim Raisi has warned Israel against making even “the smallest movement” against Iran. The remark came on Monday as the Iranian military displayed homegrown weapons and defence systems marking National Army Day. A large televised parade was organized on the occasion in the capital, Tehran, which …

18-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The death toll from Pakistan’s military air raids on targets in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar on Saturday has risen to at least 47, officials said. “Forty-one civilians, mainly women and children, were killed and 22 others were …

18-04-2022 Bureau Report MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country’s minority affairs minister said in an interview published on Sunday amid spurts of religious riots in various parts of the country. Religious clashes broke out …

18-04-2022 ABUJA: The Nigerian air force says it has killed more than 70 ISIL (ISIS) terrorists in the north of the country, at the border with Niger, in air raid. Saturday’s statement said aircraft from Nigeria and Niger took part in the operation. The Lake Chad area, where Nigeria said …