16-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH/ DAMMAM: Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested in May 2015 and charged with protest-related offences, many of which occurred when he was 17. He …

15-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia says it will allow a Tamil family of four to leave immigration detention on remote Christmas Island, but instead of allowing those to return to their home in Queensland will place them into “community detention” in the western …

13-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA: Armed assailants linked with Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL/ Taliban/ Boko Haram) have killed 53 Shia people in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to police and local residents, the latest violence to hit the restive region. Many motorcycle-riding gunmen known locally as bandits on Thursday …

08-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies OTTAWA/ CITY OF LONDON: Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say a driver intentionally struck a Pakistani family because they were Muslim, killing four people and seriously injuring a nine-year-old boy in what has been denounced as an “act of unspeakable hatred” and …

07-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ DHARKI: At least 40 people have been killed and more than 120 injured after a train collision near the southern Pakistani town of Dharki, officials say, with rescue work still under way to find survivors trapped in the debris. The collision took …

05-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies OUAGADOUGOU: Armed assailants belong with an anti-Shia terrorist organization (also known as Taliban, an African form of Daesh/ ISIS/ ISIL/ IS Boko Haram) have killed about 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, a Western African country. The …

02-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Three bombs rattled the Afghan capital Kabul martyring at least 10 people and plunging the city into darkness, an Afghan government spokesman has said. Two bombs exploded in quick succession in separate locations of a west Kabul neighborhood late on Tuesday, …

31-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Prominent Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has been taken off the air just days after he spoke out against the country’s military at a protest against an attack on another journalist. Mir told Al Jazeera he has been informed he …

27-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE/ BAIJING: It seems that the majority of “Australians has become spy for America” (not for themselves or their own country) while the reputation of Aussies is not only declining very fast but the rest of the world sees Australia and Australians …

23-05-2021 By S. Najaf Ali Shoukat NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LONDON/ WASHINGTON/ PARIS/ ROME/ BERLIN/ CANBERRA: On the basis of exclusive reporting, elite coverage and influential news of a senior investigative journalist, Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri), who is associated with Press Media of India (PMI) as Bureau Chief Australia …