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03 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + News Desk KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Third attack in Afghanistan during last six days claims several casualties while the negotiations are underway between Americans, Afghanistan and Taliban through a most secret Pakistan’s arbitration and some Indo-Pak influential journalists and Shia priests not only in Doha, …

02 September, 2019 CITY OF VICTORIA/ BEIJING: Hundreds of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its biggest political crisis in decades. The boycott follows a weekend marred by some …

02 September, 2019 BEIRUT/ TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the Lebanese border after a week of rising tensions. Israel’s military has said it fired into southern Lebanon on Sunday after a number of anti-tank missiles by Hezbollah targeted its army base and vehicles near the border. The missiles …

02 September, 2019 SANAA/ RIYADH: Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition in southwest Yemen have hit a prison complex, killing scores of people, Yemen’s Houthi movement and a Red Cross official said. The Sunni Muslim coalition, which has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthis for over four years in Yemen, …

01 September, 2019 DAMASCUS/ WASHINGTON: The United States military has said it hit an al-Qaeda-linked training camp in northwestern Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Saturday its attack close to Idlib city targeted leaders that were “responsible for attacks threatening US citizens, partners, and …

BY Syed Hussain Ali Sajjad. With sighting of the moon of Muharram 1441 (Hijri), the Shia community all over the world start their new year with the Mourning for Imam Hussaina.s  Grand Son of Prophet MohammedS.A.W.S and the Martyrs of Karbala. The city of Hyderabad holds a unique status of …

01 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HOUSTON: Five people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa on Saturday, as a “white terrorist” drove on the highways and streets opening …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: India has published the final version of a list which effectively strips about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has launched a major assault on one of Afghanistan’s largest cities, Kunduz, amid intense battles on Saturday. The complex attack came as the United States and the Taliban continued to seek an agreement in Qatar that would …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HAVANA/ WASHINGTON:  A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mohammad will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantánamo Bay from 11 January …