International

24-06-2021 Bureau Report DHAKA/ KARACHI: A prominent Muslim Bangladeshi cleric with a huge online following has issued a fatwa against people using Facebook’s “haha” emoji to mock people. Ahmadullah, who uses one name, has more than three million followers on Facebook and YouTube. He regularly appears on television shows to …

24-06-2021 SIMFEROPOL/ MOSCOW/ LONDON: More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea. Moscow’s defence ministry said that HMS Defender entered Russian territorial waters near Crimea while a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in its path. Britain’s …

23-06-2021 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said were hosted on US-owned domains in violation of sanctions. Visitors to leading Iranian media sites such as Press TV and Al-Alam, the country’s …

23-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern after nearly two dozen cases had been detected across the country so far. The variant AY.1, identified locally as Delta Plus and first identified in Europe, has been found in at least 22 cases …

23-06-2021 NEW YORK/ RIYADH/ ISTANBUL: Four Saudis who were involved in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The training was provided by …

23-06-2021 LONDON/ KARACHI: After six months of deliberation, a team of international lawyers has unveiled a new legal definition of “ecocide” that, if adopted, would put environmental destruction on a par with war crimes, paving the way for the prosecution of world leaders and corporate chiefs for the worst attacks …

23-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DUSHANBE: The Taliban has captured Afghanistan’s main border crossing with Tajikistan, an Afghan provincial official and army officer said on Tuesday, with some security forces abandoning their posts and fleeing across the frontier. The seizure of Shir Khan Bandar, …

Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman’s sexual misconduct with male students of Maddarsa silent companions of wicked Deoband Mufti.From this video, the people should understand that for these mullahs, Islam or the honorable Prophet hood and honorable companions have no meaning, but in fact, all this is done for the sake of “honorable mullahism” …

Hyderabad Jun 23 (Newslines): The shrine of Imam Ali Razaa.s has been beautifully decorated and illuminated on all sides in regard with the occasion of birthday (Yum-e-Viladat) of Imam Rezaa.s in which around six hundred (600) servants were engaged to look out and do the work. According to reliable sources of …

22-06-2021 Bureau Report + BBC CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Australia’s government has lashed out after a United Nations report claimed it had not done enough to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change. UN body UNESCO said the reef should be put on a list of World Heritage Sites that …