11-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report THATTA/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Prominent human rights activist and General Secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Zeeshan Ali Khowaja Advocate urged the government of India to release 50 fishermen who had strayed into the waters of the other country and their boats also be …
Read More »‘White man’ kills 6 then ‘self’ at Colorado birthday party
10-05-2021 COLORADO SPRINGS: A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday, police said. The shooting happened just after midnight in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs, police said. Officers arrived at a trailer to find six …
Read More »Five injured in NZ supermarket stabbing
10-05-2021 Bureau Report + Agencies DUNEDIN/ WELLINGTON: At least five people have been injured, three of whom are now in critical condition, after a stabbing attack at a New Zealand supermarket. The stabbing took place at a Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin on South Island in the afternoon. One person …
Read More »Dozens killed in Afghanistan bus bombing
10-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens more people were killed and injured in the bombing of a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province, officials said on Monday. The blast took place late on Sunday night, said Zabul’s provincial governor’s spokesman Gul Islam Sial, adding 25 people …
Read More »Activist’s killing triggers protests in Karbala
10-05-2021 KARBALA/ BAGHDAD: Protesters have burned tyres and blocked roads in the Iraqi city of Karbala after a prominent civil activist was killed by unknown gunmen. Ihab Jawad Al-Wazni was killed in the early hours of Sunday near his home in the predominantly Shia city, according to a statement by the …
Read More »Israel storms Al-Aqsa Mosque at Laylat-al-Qadr
10-05-2021 JERUSALEM: After hundreds of Palestinian protestors sustained injuries during clashes with Israeli forces in Jerusalem over the weekend, the country vowed Sunday to restore order as a key court hearing on a flashpoint property dispute was postponed. The area around the revered Al-Aqsa mosque has seen several nights of …
Read More »‘Chinese rocket debris crashes into Indian Ocean’
10-05-2021 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON: The remains of a Chinese rocket that was hurtling back towards Earth have crashed into the Indian Ocean, the country’s space agency says. The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, but state media reported that debris landed just west of the Maldives …
Read More »Shia Afghans lament after deadly blasts
09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DASHT-E-BARCHI (AFGHANISTAN): As sunset approached, Latifah was busy preparing food for her family to break their fast when she heard a loud boom echo through the sky. The sound shook her two daughters, nine and six, who had just returned from …
Read More »Black fungus claims eyesight COVID survivors in India
09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GUJARAT/ NEW DELHI: Dozens of patients those were just recovered from COVID-19 infection have become blind across India especially Gujarat, Assam, Orissa Bihar and many other parts of the country, sources told PMI. Cases of Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, affecting COVID-19 survivors …
Read More »Big Chinese rocket segment set to fall to Earth
09-05-2021 BEIJING/ WELLINGTON/ WASHINGTON: Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend. The main segment from the Long March-5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of China’s new space station last month. At 18 tones it is one …
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