11-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: After being apart for 75 years, a Muslim sister in Pakistan finally met her Sikh brother from India. Like many, Amarjit Singh and Kulsoom Akhtar were separated during the partition between India and Pakistan in 1947. Singh’s Muslim parents …

11-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens of girls protested in an eastern Afghan city on Saturday after Taliban authorities shut their secondary schools just days after classes resumed, an activist and residents said. Last week, five government secondary schools in the eastern province of Paktia restarted …

09-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ GARDEZ/ ISLAMABAD: Five government secondary schools for girls have resumed classes in eastern Afghanistan after hundreds of students demanded they reopen, a provincial official said Thursday. Officially the Taliban have banned girls’ secondary school education, but the order has been ignored in …

09-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive” global support for Pakistan where unprecedented floods have killed nearly 1,400 people and made more than a million people homeless. Guterres made the appeal as he landed in the Pakistani capital early on …

08-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ MOHENJO-DARO: The devastating floods in Pakistan have caused significant damage to Mohenjo Daro, a famous 4,500-year-old archaeological site in the southeastern Sindh province which UNESCO has declared a World Heritage site. The area in Sindh’s Larkana district received more than 1,400mm …

05-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Two Russian Embassy staff in Kabul were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the embassy, in a blast that injured 11 others, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Police said two people had died in …

04-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to devastating flooding that has killed at least 1,265 people. Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal called for an “immense humanitarian response for 33 million people” affected by monsoon rains that …

02-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia raised its ceiling on permanent migration in a move that will allow as many as 35,000 more workers to enter the country every year as part of an effort to ease worsening labor shortages. The increase could see many more …

02-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ HERAT/ ISLAMABAD: An explosion outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as more than a dozen civilians. The blast went off in the Guzargah Mosque in Herat during Friday noon prayers. …

02-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ TEXAS/ BEIJING/ LONDON: While Pakistanis count the cost of one of the country’s worst recorded floods, heavy rain is hitting southwestern China as the Texas city of Dallas recovers from a 10-inch deluge in a single day last month. …