10-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens more people were killed and injured in the bombing of a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province, officials said on Monday. The blast took place late on Sunday night, said Zabul’s provincial governor’s spokesman Gul Islam Sial, adding 25 people …

09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DASHT-E-BARCHI (AFGHANISTAN): As sunset approached, Latifah was busy preparing food for her family to break their fast when she heard a loud boom echo through the sky. The sound shook her two daughters, nine and six, who had just returned from …

09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies GUJARAT/ NEW DELHI: Dozens of patients those were just recovered from COVID-19 infection have become blind across India especially Gujarat, Assam, Orissa Bihar and many other parts of the country, sources told PMI. Cases of Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, affecting COVID-19 survivors …

09-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ ISLAMABAD: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who won re-election Saturday, has risen from humble roots to spar with prime ministers and presidents since taking charge of the British capital five years ago. The 50-year-old politician from the main opposition Labour party, …

08-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 Shia Muslims and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack Afghan President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban. A senior …

08-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies JEDDAH/ RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia and longstanding ally Pakistan signed several agreements on Saturday and vowed to revive ties strained by months of disagreement over policy on the Kashmir dispute. On his seventh visit to the wealthy kingdom since his 2018 …

07-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has started a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia in an effort to reset relations after tensions between the longtime allies in recent years. Khan’s arrival in Riyadh on Friday after an invitation from Saudi Crown …

06-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: The fifth Shia TV journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan during this year while over 1600 absolute innocent  Shia-Muslims (most of them belong with Shia Hazara Community) have been martyred since 01st January 2021 until today (06-05-2021) exactly the same …

06-05-2021 BY SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BRELIN: “Pakistanis” have not only been running the world since a long but also the entire development, modernization and advancement in all fields especially in education, medicine, invention, literature, science, human rights, politics and general awareness and civic sense …

05-05-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ KANDAHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Afghans fled their homes as fighting erupted between government forces and the Taliban in the country’s southern province days after the US military began its withdrawal from the war-torn country, officials said on Tuesday. Afghan forces pushed back …