05-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ MELBOURNE: An Islamic State (IS) group, a terrorist wing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for an attack Sunday that killed 11 miners from Pakistan’s minority Shiite Hazaras in Balochistan province. The attack took place early on Sunday morning …

04-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Hundreds of members of Pakistan’s ethnic Shia Hazara community have held a protest against the killing of 10 coal miners in a targeted attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, refusing to bury their dead until the government meets …

03-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MACH/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Gunmen have opened fire on a group of minority Hazara Shia Muslim coal miners after abducting them, killing 11 in the southwestern Balochistan province, a Pakistani official has said. Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an official with the Levies Force which …

03-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: American President Donald Trump could take “reckless” military action against Iran in his final days in office, experts have warned, as tensions between Tehran and Washington mount on the eve of the first anniversary of top Iranian general Qassem …

03-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies WASHINGTON/ BAGHDAD: One of the four Blackwater Security Contractors pardoned last month by American President Donald Trump has said he “acted correctly” during a 2007 shooting rampage in Iraq in which 14 civilians were killed and 17 others wounded while the others also think their …

02-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON: A United States federal appeals court on Friday reversed an order that vacated the January 11 execution of the only woman on federal death row, but allowed for further hearings that could cause the execution date to be delayed. The ruling, handed …

01-01-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report AUCKLAND/ SYDNEY/ LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: The world began ushering in the New Year on Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-ridden 2020. After a grinding year that has seen at …

29-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PARIS/ KARACHI/ NEW DELHI/ KABUL: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday said that about fifty journalists and media workers were killed in connection with their work in 2020; however, the majority of killings were in countries that are not at war. The figure …

27-12-2020 By SJA Jafri NASHVILLE: Suicide, car, truck and other types of explosions (as normal routine in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan) have not only been started in America but also planned for other non-Muslims, American and European countries while the testing of this blast series has already been completed, …

26-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies INDIANAPOLIS/ NEW YORK/ HOUSTON: A black physician in Indianapolis has died with Covid-19 weeks after she accused a doctor of denying her proper medical care because of her race. In a video from her bed at Indiana University Hospital North, Susan Moore said she …