04-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have detained an academic who tore up his degrees on live television in protest against a ban on women’s university education in the country, his aide said on Friday. “From today I don’t need these diplomas …

01-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + BBC MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Almost 650 people have been charged in a four-day police blitz targeting “dangerous” domestic violence offenders in Australia, police say. Some 1,153 charges – for domestic violence, drugs and weapons were laid during the operation in New South Wales last week. Police …

31-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies PESHAWAR: A rescue and recovery operation has ended in Pakistan after a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 100 people, most of them police officials. Kashif Aftab Abbasi, senior superintendent of police operations …

31-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies PESHAWAR: Dozens of people have been killed in a bomb attack targeting a mosque in a security compound in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to authorities. Muhammed Asim, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, told media …

29-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Except neither all Australian intelligence & secret services, Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) even police were unaware about one of the world’s biggest Khalistan movements nor none of one official was present at Melbourne’s voting place until conflict between political activists …

24-01-2023 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ LAHORE/ PESHAWAR: Pakistan has suffered a nationwide power outage due to a technical fault that left large swaths of the country, including the capital Islamabad, without electricity. In a statement on Twitter, the energy ministry said the system frequency of the national grid went …

19-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Rights experts from the United Nations have deplored abductions, forced marriages and conversions of girls from Pakistan’s religious minorities, urging the government to swiftly halt such practices. “We are deeply troubled to hear that girls as young as 13 are being …

18-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called for talks with India to discuss “burning issues such as Kashmir” while asking the United Arab Emirates to play a role in resolving the differences between the two neighbors. Terming the UAE a “brotherly country” …

17-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: For Arthur Wilkinson, a Penang-born entrepreneur who opened Malaysia’s first flotation therapy centre on his tropical island home, nearly two years without tourists marked the end of the road. Float For Health, located in Tanjung Tokong, a coastal township on the northeastern …

13-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ LONDON: Islamabad has denied reports in the British media that a package containing uranium, which arrived at London’s Heathrow airport in December, originated from Pakistan. Newspapers including ‘The Sun’, a tabloid, and the Guardian made the claim, as well as …