24-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Tuesday “completely dismissed” allegations made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs that its staff in New Delhi had violated any diplomatic conventions, saying they were used as “a pretext to seek …

24-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: China and India have agreed to reduce tensions a week after their deadliest clashes in over 50 years on the disputed Himalayan border left 20 Indian troops dead in brutal hand-to-hand fighting. The …

22-06-2020 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Renowned religious scholar Allama Talib Jauhari passed away in Karachi late on Sunday night, his son Riaz Jauhari confirmed in the wee hours of Monday at the age of 80. The well-known scholar had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital for several days and was on …

22-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BRASILIA/ NEW YORK/ ISLAMABAD: The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general said. The WHO reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases as the total rose by 183,020 …

20-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The new chief of the US federal media agency, a Trump-appointee, has sacked three senior officials, raising fears that networks will be politicised. Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker and former associate of ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon, has …

20-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved Black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the …

19-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON/ DUBAI: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump still has a good chance of being re-elected thanks to his strong support base, despite his declining support in recent months. “The biggest mistake …

18-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies SAINT PAUL/ NEW YORK: George Floyd’s brother on Wednesday begged the United Nations to help African Americans because “Black lives do not matter in the United States”, as the UN’s rights chief urged reparations for centuries of discrimination. Philonise Floyd made an impassioned speech via …

18-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India has cautioned China against making “exaggerated and untenable claims” on the sovereignty of the Galwan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the high Himalayan region where their armies engaged in a …

17-06-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: India’s prime minister has said the deaths of at least 20 soldiers in a fight with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan border area “will not be in vain”. Narendra Modi said India …