By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (By SJA Jafri) 19-05-2021 On 8th Shawwal in the year 1345 AH (April 21, 1925), mausoleums in Jannatul-ul-Baqi (holy city of Medina) were demolished by the then most controversial ruler of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) known as “King Ibn-e-Saud”. The Shia population of the …

19-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies PARIS/ GAZA CITY: “The Israel-Gaza conflict is pushing the whole region “in the wrong direction,” Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said Tuesday, calling for an end to the violence. “This all pushes us absolutely in the wrong direction. It means that we are …

16-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY/ MELBOURNE/ LONDON/ NEW YORK/ ISTANBUL/ TEHRAN/ KARACHI: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “continue to respond forcefully” to rocket attacks as conflict with Palestinians in Gaza enters a seventh day. Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed …

15-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN: Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once more signed up to become Iran’s next president, but the anticipated top candidates for the June election have yet to register. The ultraconservative, who was president from 2005 to 2013, tried to run again in 2017 but …

14-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MAPUTO/ PALMA/ LONDON: One of the world’s most believable Pakistan based English daily newspapers namely Messenger and a most credible news website pressmediaofindia.com (Press Media of India/ PMI) have always been reporting that neither the “Whitish” have nothing to do with “Blackish” nor they …

Imran, Erdogan vow to highlight Israeli atrocities at UN 14-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ ISTANBUL/ RIYADH/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday received a telephone call from the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss several issues of mutual interest between Pakistan …

13-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ JAKARTA/ RIYADH: People across Asia celebrated Eid al-Fitr with masks and prayers, but in many places COVID-19 restrictions were in place to limit the joyous mass gatherings and family reunions that usually mark the Muslim holiday. Millions of people across …

13-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC ISLAMABAD/ BEIJING/ LONDON: China has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014 in its crackdown in the Xinjiang region, according to new research by a Uyghur rights group. The research, compiled by the Uyghur Human Rights Project …

11-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + BBC + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ CHRISTMAS ISLAND/ MELBOURNE/ KARACHI: As Press Media of India (PMI) and Messenger have already been revealing and exposing Australia especially its former and present regimes, officials, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), political, social and religious parties, native people and migrants, infrastructural …

11-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report THATTA/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Prominent human rights activist and General Secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Zeeshan Ali Khowaja Advocate urged the government of India to release 50 fishermen who had strayed into the waters of the other country and their boats also be …