12-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber killed at least five people outside the Afghan foreign ministry on Wednesday, police said, but some officials put the death toll higher. Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said the official confirmed death toll was five. Ustad Fareedun, an …

09-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report GENEVA/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is in dire want of $8 billion from world donors during the next three years to shore up the country’s economy that was mostly laid to waste by extreme floods from June to October 2022, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said …

08-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ RIYADH: Pakistan’s new army chief has held talks with top Saudi officials, including the defence minister, on his first official trip to the Gulf kingdom as the South Asian country faces an unprecedented economic crisis. General Syed Asim Munir, who …

07-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON: A senior Taliban official on Friday slammed Prince Harry after the royal disclosed that he killed 25 people on military duty in Afghanistan and said it was like removing “chess pieces” from aboard. In his memoir to be …

04-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan’s defence minister has alleged that Afghanistan’s soil is being used by armed groups to launch attacks on his country, prompting a sharp response from Taliban government in Kabul which called the allegation “incorrect” and “regrettable”. “We have spoken to Afghanistan …

27-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: The United States embassy in Islamabad has warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel as Pakistan’s capital is already on high alert two days after a suicide bombing. The US government has obtained information that …

26-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies PARIS/ ISLAMABAD: As usual and as per ‘Whitish Practice & Routine’, the French authorities have decided that the suspect attacked on Shia Kurdish community in Paris would be declared psycho patient and they will try to release accused on medical basis as the Whitish …

26-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Three major Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have halted work in Afghanistan after women were banned from working for them by the Taliban. In a joint statement, Care International, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Save the Children said they would be unable …

25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have used a water cannon to disperse a group of women protesting against the ban on female students in Afghanistan attending university. Video on social media shows women taking cover in a lane in the city of Herat to …

25-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ KARACHI/ KABUL/ DAMASCUS: Anti-Shia terror organizations, local and global networks, Asian, Arab, African, Israeli, Saudi, Pakistani and Australian chains directly and indirectly linked with different Taliban batches, al-Qaeda, Daesh, ISIS, Boko Haram, ISIL, JeI, LeJ, JeM, LeT and dozens others with or …