07-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: A very famous senior journalist and anchor person, Imran Riaz Khan, who has more than three million subscribers on YouTube, was arrested on Tuesday on the outskirts of Islamabad in connection with a treason case. Khan had questioned the mighty Pakistan …
Read More »Boris Johnson clings on despite clamour for his resignation
07-07-2022 LONDON: A group of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers were set to tell him to resign as British prime minister on Wednesday, media reports said after he insisted he would not quit in the face of a mounting rebellion in his party. With a BBC report that a group of …
Read More »‘Personal information of millions of Chinese citizens hacked’
07-07-2022 SHANGHAI: A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The anonymous internet user, identified as “ChinaDan”, posted on the hacker …
Read More »Pakistani & Indian investors lost over £100 million in Yieldstreet
07-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ NEW YORK/ KARACHI: Fintech firm Yieldstreet is facing litigation filed by investors who lost more than $100 million in a spectacular series of high-risk defaults and misleadingly marketed alternative investment products just seven years after it was created to take …
Read More »OPEC Chief Mohammad Barkindo dies in Nigeria at 63
06-07-2022 ABUJA: The secretary-general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has died in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, the country’s oil chief said. Mohammad Barkindo, a Nigerian oil industry veteran who steered the group through the creation of the OPEC+ alliance, was due to step down at the …
Read More »Twitter pursues judicial review of Indian orders to take down content
06-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Twitter on Tuesday asked an Indian court to overturn some government orders to remove content from the social media platform, a source familiar with the matter said, in a legal challenge which alleges abuse of power by officials. The US company’s attempt to …
Read More »Iran shuts three cafes in Qom over unveiled women
06-07-2022 TEHRAN: Authorities in Iran have closed three coffee shops in the central city of Qom because female customers were not wearing their headscarves, local media reported Monday. “Three coffee shops were closed in Qom due to numerous violations, including women’s lack of veils and other issues,” said a statement …
Read More »Overseas Hajj pilgrims rejoice after two-year COVID-19 absence
06-07-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MECCA/ KARACHI: Of the hundreds of thousands of Muslims arriving in Mecca this week for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, perhaps none had a more arduous journey than Adam Mohammed, a 53-year-old electrical engineer from the United Kingdom. Mohammed, who is of Iraqi-Kurdish origin, decided last …
Read More »American police arrest another ‘White Terrorist’ over mass shooting
05-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CHICAGO: The US police arrested another “White Terrorist” against severe charges of mass shooting in which a shooter opened fire on a crowd gathered to watch an Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park at 10:15am on Monday, sending revelers fleeing …
Read More »Muslim man carries Hindu friend’s body for funeral
05-07-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BIHAR: A Muslim family in Bihar, India, performed the last rites of a Hindu man who passed away on Friday. The deceased, Ramdev Sah, worked in Mohammad Armaan’s shop in Patna for more than two decades. News Track reported that 25 years ago, he had …
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