11-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/KABUL/ WASHINGTON: The new US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West will visit Pakistan this week for a meeting with the Taliban foreign minister and senior diplomats from China and Russia, a Pakistani official and the US State Department said. It …

10-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: India is hosting senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, but no Afghan representative is in attendance. India’s archrival Pakistan and China also declined to attend the Delhi Regional …

09-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Almost all national and global terror organizations, clusters, parties, chapters and networks particularly Taliban (Khurasani, Sajna, Chichen Uzbick, Tajik, Arab and Ajam groups), Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama’at those have not only been working in Pakistan as …

04-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: The supreme leader of the Taliban warned on Thursday against the danger of turncoats and infiltrators in the movement that has taken charge of Afghanistan. Reflecting the seriousness of the threat, the reclusive Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a rare …

04-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies THE HAGUE/ KARACHI: The People’s Tribunal has begun hearings in The Hague to bring to light the murder of journalists and other crimes against them and to punish the perpetrators responsible for the crimes committed against them. Violence against journalists is …

03-11-2021 By SJA Jafri KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: International Lawyers Forum (ILF) along with the Civil Society celebrated the Diwali, the festival of lights at Shri Swaminarayan Temple situated at main M A Jinnah Raod Karachi headed by Chairman Nasir Ahmed Advocate. Dozens of young girls showered flowers on the members of …

03-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced a ban on the use of foreign currencies on Tuesday, threatening further disruption to an already ailing economy. Since the group seized power in mid-August, the national currency Afghani has depreciated and the country’s …

02-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least 19 people were killed and 43 wounded when two explosions, followed by gunfire, hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in the capital Kabul, interior ministry sources told PMI on Tuesday. The gunshots were also heard near the Sardar …

02-11-2021 By SJA Jafri KARACHI/ LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD: At least 23 Pakistani journalists have been penalized under the country’s draconian cyber-crime law in the last two years, establishing a “chilling pattern” of using the threat of legal action to silence dissent, a new report by a media rights watchdog says. Freedom …

01-11-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016. Akhundzada has been the spiritual chief of the Islamist movement since 2016 but …