11-07-2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/SYDNEY: Australian Media Chiefs and the Federal Opposition are urging Peter Dutton to abandon any legal action against journalists targeted in recent federal police raids. Two ABC reporters and a News Corp journalist are under police investigation after publishing separate stories based on leaked …

10 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ KARACHI: Another Shia journalist Mureed Abbas and his friend were murdered in Karachi on Tuesday night. Abbas who was an anchor person working at a private television channel Bol News in Karachi was allegedly shot by Atif Zaman who also tried to commit …

09 July, 2019 “Int’l students are being cheated in Australia” By SJA Jafri + Sydney Morning Herald (Courtesy Messenger) SYDNEY: International Students and migrants especially Indian and Pakistani are being cheated in Australia by some ‘individuals and groups and these criminal activities have become the routine of ‘Local Aussies’ and …

08 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies VALLETTA/TRIPOLI: Malta has allowed a group of 65 migrants rescued off Libya to disembark on its territory after picking them up from a rescue ship. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said after talks with the European Commission and German government that all 65 …

06 July, 2019 By SJA JAfri + BBC BEIJING/ UYGHUR: Thousands of Muslim children in China’s western Xinjiang region are being separated from their parents in what a new study calls a “systematic campaign of social re-engineering and cultural genocide”. The research sheds light on what happens to the children of “double-detained” parents …

By SJA Jafri + Reuters COLOMBO/ RIYADH: (05 July, 2019): Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom’s ultra-conservative Wahhabi school for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks. On April 21, …

By SJA Jafri +Agencies TEHRAN/ LONDON/ DUBAI: (5th July, 2019): British Royal Marines (UKRMs) in Gibraltar stormed an Iranian ship believed to have been carrying oil to Syria on Thursday, in possible violation of European Union (EU) sanctions on Syria. Gibraltar port and law enforcement agencies, aided by the British marines, detained the Grace 1 …

By SJA Jafri + Sky News LONDON/ DUBAI: (5th July, 2019): The scheduled hearing is said to be over who will have custody of their two young children now that the princess has left Dubai. A legal battle between the ruler of Dubai and his wealthy estranged wife is heading …

By SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/ WASHINGTON: It’s been a three-horse race this year to be named the world’s most powerful passport, with all top three contenders in Asia. Now, as we enter the second half of 2019, Japan and Singapore have held onto their position as the world’s most travel-friendly passports, …

‘Dangerous Migrant Detention Centres’ needs ‘immediate attention’ Detention of thousands including women & children a ‘ticking time bomb’ ‘US should learn Pakistan that how Pakistan brought-up millions of AR’ By SJA Jafri MEXICO CITY/ HOUSTON/ ISLAMABAD: Not only America but also the whole world should learn Pakistan and Pakistani nation …