31-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NANGARHAR/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Gunmen who identified themselves as Taliban attacked a wedding in eastern Afghanistan to stop music being played, killing at least two people and injuring 10 others, officials say. A Taliban spokesman said two of the three gunmen had been arrested …

31-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD: A man convicted of terrorism charges who was held at the held US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told a sentencing jury how he was raped, beaten, and waterboarded by CIA interrogators in the first-ever public account of torture …

30-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR/ UNITED NATIONS: KABUL: The Taliban government has sent an envoy to run the Afghan embassy in the Pakistani capital, senior Taliban sources said, as the new administration starts to take over Afghanistan’s network of foreign delegations. Mohammad Shokaib was …

29-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ LONDON: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), an independent organization but under the direct supervision of ‘Pakistani State’ administrative control usually known as ‘a tool’ that has been using against opponents and anti-state particularly impartial media outlets of Pakistan has …

28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Senior officials of Afghanistan’s neighboring states have gathered in Iran’s capital for a one-day conference to discuss the situation in the Taliban-ruled country. The foreign ministers of Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan met on Wednesday in Tehran, …

28-10-2021 By SJA Jafri (Courtesy Al Jazeera) NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: Last week, Hindu right-wing forces in India forced a leading firm to withdraw its festive season advertisement after it featured a couple of words from the Urdu language, which in the popular imagination in the country is a “Muslim language”. …

26-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ SHARJAH/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan erupted in celebration on Monday evening, with those following the national cricket team sharing a rare moment of joy with a 130-run win over Scotland in the T20 World Cup. Afghans, those abroad and the ones in …

24-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies DUBAI /KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Pakistani and Swedish ministers warned on Saturday. Afghanistan plunged into crisis after the Taliban drove out the Western-backed government in August triggering the abrupt end of …

23-10-2021 By SJA Jafri LAHORE/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Dozens of cops and people have been killed and injured while hundreds detained in clashes between protesters and members of a religious cum political party during last two days while the panic and fear also spread across Pakistan, sources and victims told PMI. …

23-10-2021 By SJA Jafri + Al-Jazeera ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Thousands of Pakistani and Afghani journalists, media workers and outlets are at high risk of Taliban, Daesh, ISIS, ISIL and many other terrorist organizations not only because of neutralism but also due to reporting against these extremists or without their permission, sources …