25 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghan forces have killed gunmen who attacked a Sikh religious complex in the capital Kabul, ending the hours-long siege that has killed 25 people, the Ministry of Interior has said. The deadly attack was claimed by the Daesh/ ISIL (ISIS) …

25 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ NEW YORK/ SANA’A: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed forces in war-torn Yemen for carrying out a series of abuses against Yemeni civilians in the furthermost eastern province of al-Mahra. In a report published on Wednesday, the New …

25 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports CANBERRA/ SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: A maximum of 10 people will be allowed to attend funerals and five to attend weddings in Australia under new curbs in the fight against coronavirus. Prime Minister Scott Morrison emerged from a cabinet meeting to announce a …

23 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports + Int’l Monitoring Desk NEW DELHI/ RIYADH/ DUBAI/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON/ NEW YORK: The novel coronavirus in India rose 324 on Monday, according to Health Ministry data,  out of them 41 are foreign nationals and Maharashtra is worst hit with 63 confirmed cases. …

22 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports ROME/ NEW DELHI/ MELBOURNE/ KARACHI: Globally, 186 countries have been affected, more than 13,000 people have died and more than 300,00 infected by the disease as it spreads rapidly to new territories while 92,000 people have recovered. The epicentre of the …

21 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on the US to lift “unjust” sanctions on Iran so its western neighbor can focus on winning the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. “I would stress and insist to the international community to …

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report 20 March, 2020 NEW DELHI/ NIRBHAYA: Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013 over the charge of gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012. The four were hanged …

19 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The coronavirus pandemic adds urgency to prisoner releases agreed to by the government of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the Taliban, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has said, advising they take place “as soon as possible”. “No prisoners have …

16 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies SEATTLE: The first trial in people of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus is starting in the US later on Monday, according to reports. A group of 45 healthy volunteers will have the jab, at the Kaiser Permanente research facility, in …

15 March, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports KARACHI/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD: KARACHI: A large protest was held in Karachi and other cities across Pakistan Saturday against the arrest of Jang Geo Media Group’s Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, with pariticipants raising placards and chanting slogans for press freedom. Journalists, activists and …