02 April, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has overturned the death sentence of the man convicted of killing US journalist Daniel Pearl, defence lawyers have told reporters. British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, imprisoned since 2002, has had his sentence reduced to seven years for kidnapping, …

01 April, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Int’l News Desk NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: The United Nations chief has warned the coronavirus pandemic presents the world with its “worst crisis” since World War-II (WW-II), with the number of dead in the United States now higher than in …

31 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: Chairman and printer, publisher of the Jang Group, Mir Javed ur Rahman (MJR), the eldest son of the late visionary Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman (MKE), and elder brother of Jang Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman (MSR), passed away in Karachi on Tuesday. …

30 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencie + Int’l Monitoring Desk + Bureau Reports KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON/ NEW YTORK: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 1,670 on Monday after new cases were reported across the country. The province-wise breakup of the total number of cases …

29 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ JIZAN/ DUBAI: Ballistic missiles were intercepted on Saturday in the sky above Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh and the southern city of Jizan, state media reported, citing its own sources and the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Residents in Riyadh reported at …

28 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian government has defended its handling of the coronavirus outbreak after a strict lockdown – introduced with little warning – left millions stranded and without food. The country’s response had been “pre-emptive, pro-active and graded”, it said in a …

28 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis delivered a message of hope to the world amid the coronavirus pandemic. He did so in a hauntingly empty St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, as Italy is completely locked down to stop the virus spreading. “Like the …

27 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Int’l Monitoring Desk + Agencies GENEVA/ WASHINGTON: The United States now has more coronavirus cases than any other country with close to 86,000 infections, according to Johns Hopkins University, pushing the total numbers worldwide to more than 531,000, as the global death toll …

26 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing for unemployment has surged to a record high as the economy goes into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 3.3 million people registered to claim jobless benefits for the week ended 21 March, …

26 March, 2020 NEW YORK/: The situation in New York, the United States of America’s state with the highest numbers in both infections and deaths. The United States of America (USA), once again become top all over the world with rapid increase in coronavirus cases where nearly 10,000 new cases …