27-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The looming economic and humanitarian crisis has affected the lifestyle of Afghan families as they are living in extreme poverty and are forced to make life-altering decisions to survive. Families are selling their children and their kidneys as more than half …

26-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Thousands of people are gathering in ‘Invasion Day’ rallies across the country, in protest of Australia’s national holiday. Crowds have taken to the streets of capital cities across Australia, asking for the date of Australia Day to be changed. Many First …

25-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KARACHI/ DAMASCUS: A brazen ISIL attack on a prison in northeast Syria and the ensuing five days of fighting with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a stark reminder of the armed group’s growing strength, exactly as “Taliban’s influences increase in Pakistan”, sources …

24-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan’s new Taliban authorities warned on Saturday they have the right to crack down on dissent and jail protesters, as concerns grew over the disappearance of two women activists. Since storming back to power in August amid a hasty …

22-01-2022 By SJA Jafri KABUL/ KARACHI: As many as 3,96,193 Shia Muslims including young girls, women, children, doctors, journalists, engineers, educationists, religious scholars, policemen, security personals, scientists, philosophers, intellectuals even visitors and foreigners particularly Pakistanis belong with Shia (especially Hazara) community have been murdered and over 2,86,654 Shia Muslims have …

17-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + BBC ELGRADE/ MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic has arrived in Serbia after being deported from Australia. The top men’s tennis player was deported after losing a visa battle that centred on the fact he is unvaccinated. Supporters gathered at the airport in Belgrade, waving the national flag …

17-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies COLLEYVILLE/ TEXAS: United States authorities have identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe …

16-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Tennis star Novak Djokovic has lost his chance to defend his Australian Open title after an Australian court upheld a government deportation order. Three Federal Court judges on Sunday sided with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision made on Friday …

6-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies COLLEYVILLE/ TEXAS: Police were negotiating with a man believed to have taken people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during a religious service on Saturday that was being broadcast online. The Colleyville Police Department said Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) …

15-01-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ PARIS: A recent meeting in Iran between the Taliban and the only opposition group left in Afghanistan produced no concrete results, a prominent opposition figure told AFP in an interview. Ali Maisam Nazary, the foreign relations chief for …