16-05-2023 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan’s ruling alliance are holding a sit-in protest outside Pakistan’s Supreme Court to protest against alleged “undue favours” shown by the judiciary towards former Prime Minister Imran Khan in recent days. Monday’s protest was mainly led by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) …

14-05-2023 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ QUETTA: The murdering, kidnapping, abusing, threatening, pressurizing, injuring, forced missing and slaughtering of Shia Muslims including young girls and women even children in Pakistan by anti-Shia organizations, especially Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, LeJ, JeI, JeM, ASWJ, SeS and dozens of other terror groups have …

10-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies  KARACHI/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD: Protests erupted across Pakistan on Tuesday after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was arrested as he appeared before the Islamabad High Court for several cases pending since he was ousted last year. Police fired tear gas and water cannon to …

05-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KURRAM AGENCY/ PARACHINAR: Gunmen have stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, martyring several Shia teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack, according to officials. In Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders …

02-05-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KARACHI, PAKISTAN/ HYDERABAD DECCAN, INDIA: An image of a padlocked grave, which went viral on social media last week, was quickly picked by Indian news outlets linking it with the issue of rape and necrophilia in Pakistan without verifying the origins of the image …

16-04-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: On April 15, former Indian parliamentarian Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead by three assailants, a brazen attack caught on live television. The two were being escorted by the police in the northern city of …

11-04-2023 By SJA Jafri LONDON/ KARACHI: Thousands of healthcare professionals have called on UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman to apologize to British Pakistanis for making false, racist and Islamophobic allegations against them and creating dangers for them in Britain. Dozens of healthcare organizations with a collective membership in thousands consisting …

11-04-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ QUETTA: Four people have been killed after a bomb attack targeted a police vehicle in the western Pakistani city of Quetta. “A police vehicle was targeted in the Qandhari Bazar area of the city. Among the dead, two are police officials whereas …

08-04-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report QUETTA/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s top intelligence agency has arrested a “high-value target” in an operation against a Baloch rebel group in the country’s southwest, the army said. The military statement on Friday said Gulzar Imam, also known by the name Shambay, is the founder …

06-04-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ KARACHI: Armed men {belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which is not only a very close-linked subordinate group of Daesh but also created by one of most world’s …