International

09 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri NEW DELHI/ MELBOURNE: The disputed holy site of Ayodhya in northern India should be given to Hindus who want a temple built there, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. The case, which has been bitterly contested for decades by Hindus and Muslims, centers on …

08 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri TEHRAN/ MELBOURNE: Dozens people reportedly killed and injured when a shallow 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Iran early on Friday, according to state TV. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck around 60km (35 miles) from the town of Hastrud, in East …

06 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DUSHANBE/ MELBOURNE: Over 27 people died after Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh/ ISIS) group militants attacked a border post on Tajikistan’s border with Uzbekistan, Tajik authorities said while the local media and sources claimed 17 deaths during incident. The …

05 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri ISTANBUL/ DAMASCUS/ MELBOURNE: Turkey has captured the elder sister of slain Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in northwestern Syria, according to a senior Turkish official. The official said on Monday that the …

03 November, 2019 Bureau Report KARACHI: An underhanded plot of a well trained, vastly experienced and highly professional spy that has been serving for a foreign secret service in a garb of waiter at ‘Karachi Press Club’ (KPC) is not only continued but also despite of murdering and paralyzing of …

03 November, 2019 By SJA Jafri PALESTINE/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: Without any prior notice, Twitter suspended the English, Arabic and Breaking News accounts of Quds News Network (QNN), the largest and most viewed news network in Palestine, on its platform while the entire data has also been either removed or …

31 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ LAHORE/ RAHIM YAR KHAN: At least 65 people were killed and scores injured when a train caught fire near the city area of Liaquatpur on Thursday. The train, Tezgam, was on its way from Karachi to Rawalpindi, when a gas cylinder carried by …

29 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ PARIS: Another non-Muslim and anti-Islam, pure European, 84-year-old man has become ‘White Terrorist’ in France but neither the French nation nor country’s authorities are ready to accept this ‘hundred percent proven reality’ which Messenger and Press Media of India (PMI) have been flashing …

27 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON DAMASCUS: The leader of the Islamic State terror group, Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi, is believed to have died in a US raid in north-western Syria overnight, intelligence officials have claimed. The raid followed a month-long intelligence operation that had tracked Baghdadi to the …

19 October, 2019 By SJA Jafri KARBALA/ BAGHDAD: Over five (5) million pilgrims across the world were gathered in one of the holiest cities of Iraq known as Karbala to commemorate Arbaeen, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet’s of Islam’s grandson Imam Hussain-AS while, once again, this …