04 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies DAMASCUS/ RIYADH/ NY: The United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), and France may be complicit in possible war crimes in Yemen over their support for parties to the conflict there, UN experts say. A new report warns the countries they …

03 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + News Desk KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Third attack in Afghanistan during last six days claims several casualties while the negotiations are underway between Americans, Afghanistan and Taliban through a most secret Pakistan’s arbitration and some Indo-Pak influential journalists and Shia priests not only in Doha, …

01 September, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HOUSTON: Five people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a brazen daylight drive-by mass shooting in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa on Saturday, as a “white terrorist” drove on the highways and streets opening …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: India has published the final version of a list which effectively strips about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has launched a major assault on one of Afghanistan’s largest cities, Kunduz, amid intense battles on Saturday. The complex attack came as the United States and the Taliban continued to seek an agreement in Qatar that would …

31 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ HAVANA/ WASHINGTON:  A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mohammad will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantánamo Bay from 11 January …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies 29 August, 2019 CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: A former Australian spy charged with conspiring to reveal classified information to East Timor has been denied legal aid and might not be able to adequately fund his case, his lawyer told a court. The spy, known as Witness K, was …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday referred petitions related to the abrogation of the special status for occupied Kashmir to a five-judge constitution bench for hearing in the first week of October. Notices were also issued to Indian federal government on the …

27 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: If the circumstance remain same or the situation betters a little bid in Strait of Hormuz, the American President may visit Iran in near future and if the situation is not changed, struggle for Trump’s visit to Iran will …

26 August, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that India’s decision to revoke Article 370 would prove to be a historic blunder by the Modi government in occupied Kashmir. “Time will prove that the Indian government has given an opportunity to the Kashmiri …