By SJA Jafri NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE: An Israeli professor disclosed in a recent lecture series at Columbia University that Israeli authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children. Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at Israel’s …

By SJA Jafri +Agencies WASHINGTON/MELBOURNE: On the basis of victim families and aggrieved persons’ statements, vocal and written documentary evidence and contradictions of officials and unofficial proclamations, media reports and sources’ claims, many media outlets across the world including Press Media of India (PMI), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Press TV, …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies DAMMAM/MELBOURNE: US-bound student among 37 innocent Shia Muslims were brutally beaten and tortured before beheading on Tuesday while, after cutting heads-off, bodies of some people were also displayed at the prominent public places of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to spread fear and to show …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/CANBERRA: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi Shia Muslims, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and the severed head of a convicted extremist to a pole as a warning to others. The executions …

By SJA Jafri + Agencies COLOMBO:  At least 138 people have been reported to be killed and hundreds more injured in a series of explosions targeting churches holding Easter services and hotels in Sri Lanka. PMI put the death toll at 160. Most of the dead are believed to have …

14 more passengers murdered after identification in Pakistan By SJA Jafri ORMARA/QUETTA: At least 14 people have been killed after gunmen ambushed a bus in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, according to government officials. “They were all bullet injuries, most were shot in the head,” Dr Muhammad Musa, a government health official …

SJA Jafri MELBOURNE/WASHINGTON: Reporters Without Borders (RWB) condemned the trumped-up charges of online terrorism and defaming “respected institutions” on which a Pakistani reporter is due to appear in court of Karachi tomorrow. The case has been designed to intimidate and silence Pakistan’s journalists, RSF said. Shahzeb Jillani, an investigative reporter …

By SJA Jafri QUETTA: At least nineteen people were killed and several injured in a blast at Quetta’s Hazarganji Sabzi Mandi (Fruit Market) on Friday morning, authorities said.  DIG Quetta Abdul Razaq Cheema confirmed nineteen people had martyred, while at least seven others were injured in the blast.  Buildings located …

By SJA Jafri KARACHI: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Karachi Police has arrested a most wanted terrorist of outlawed Jundullah Terror Group, the CTD Chief Raja Umar Khattab said in a press briefing on Thursday, PMI reported. Arrested terrorist Mohammad Ishaq alias Gul was named in the red book, police have …

By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) CANBERRA: A former Canberra-based journalist accused of threatening to carry out beheadings, driven by his extreme religious views, has been remanded in custody. James Michael Waugh, 28, was arrested on Tuesday evening when police swooped on his home in Canberra’s south after a tip-off to …