By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A bomb had exploded in a western district of the Afghanistan’s capital Kabul where members of the minority Shia community regularly meet. Daesh (also known as ISIS/ ISIL/ Taliban) claimed responsibility for the attack, the group said on its Telegram channel. A …

04-08-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Taliban said that the government had no information about al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri “entering and living” in capital city Kabul and warned the United States to never repeat an attack on Afghan soil. The United States killed Zawahiri with a …

29-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Fatima Payman, 27, made history this week after becoming the first hijab-wearing Senator in Australia’s parliament. Payman broke down a few minutes into her first speech in Parliament when thanking her father for his sacrifices who arrived in Australia as an …

21-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said that the ruling Taliban were responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and inhumane punishments in the 10 months since they seized power. Sources verified that during the last ten (10) …

19-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have asked female employees in the country to send a male relative to offices to do the work on their behalf. The announcement came a year after female employees working in the public sector were banned from government jobs …

15-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani students enrolled in two different universities in Kabul have reportedly been missing since the first day of Eid ul Adha in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Resource Development has approached the authorities in Kabul for the recovery …

10-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ PESHAWAR: Intense floods have killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan as heavy monsoon rains battered the country, officials said. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including women and children, were killed after being …

07-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: A very famous senior journalist and anchor person, Imran Riaz Khan, who has more than three million subscribers on YouTube, was arrested on Tuesday on the outskirts of Islamabad in connection with a treason case. Khan had questioned the mighty Pakistan …

07-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ NEW YORK/ KARACHI: Fintech firm Yieldstreet is facing litigation filed by investors who lost more than $100 million in a spectacular series of high-risk defaults and misleadingly marketed alternative investment products just seven years after it was created to take …

05-07-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CHICAGO: The US police arrested another “White Terrorist” against severe charges of mass shooting in which a shooter opened fire on a crowd gathered to watch an Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park at 10:15am on Monday, sending revelers fleeing …