13-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ QUEENSLAND: Two police officers and a member of the public have been shot dead at a remote property in Queensland, Australia as the PMI has been intimating that the days are nor for away when the world will count Australia as one …

10-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LONDON/ BLACKBURN: A group of British Muslim youth who were charged over anti-Semitism accusations and then the case dropped by the prosecution have accused the police of mistreating them like “terrorists” at the time of the arrest and afterwards. Adil Mota, Mohammed Hanif, Asif …

09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban flogged 27 Afghans, including women, in front of a large crowd Thursday, a day after publicly executing a convicted murderer for the first time since they returned to power last year. Their chief spokesman also pushed back …

09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The US State Department on Wednesday warned of action if international terrorists regroup in Afghanistan, fearing the Taliban-ruled country may become a haven for militants again. The concerns were raised during a press briefing by the State Department …

07-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have carried out what is thought to be their first public execution since the group’s return to power in Afghanistan last year. A Taliban spokesperson said a man named Tajmir was killed at a crowded sports stadium in south-western …

06-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least seven people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a blast hit a vehicle carrying oil workers in the northern province of Balkh, while another blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad injured six people. “Today at around 7am …

04-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LIMPUR: Anwar Ibrahim became Malaysia’s 10th prime minister last week, after an epic career in which he had sought the job, and come close to getting it, over a quarter of a century but whatever jubilation he might have felt must have been …

04-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: Pakistan rejected the US State Department’s assessment under the US domestic legislation on religious freedom, terming it arbitrary and selective. The designation of Pakistan as a “Country of Particular Concern” is completely against the realities on the ground and …

03-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The United States announced it was designating South Asian Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban leaders as terrorists, vowing action as alarms grow over Afghanistan. The targeted militants included four leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional …

02-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Head of Mission to Kabul Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani Friday escaped an assassination bid, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) confirmed. In a statement sharing details of the attack, the Foreign Office stated that the embassy’s compound in Kabul came …