16-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Al-Jazeera LILLE/ PARIS/ DOHA: Three far-right activists in France caught on camera during an Al Jazeera undercover investigation have been found guilty of offences that included assault, and in one case incitement to “terrorism”. A judge at the High Court in the northern city of …

16-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of mainly Ethiopian migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, quoting some as saying they had been tortured or beaten. The migrants at the centre, mostly from Ethiopia but also from other African or …

15-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ABUJA/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Boko Haram group {an ultimate organization directly headed and supervised by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan/ TTP or only “Taliban” (founder of al-Qaeda, Daesh, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/ ISIL or Islamic State/ IS) …

15-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Kabul’s Deputy Governor and his assistant have been killed in a blast in Afghanistan, police say, adding that a sticky bomb was attached to his car by unknown assailants. Deputy Governor Mahboobullah Mohebi was travelling to work on Tuesday with his …

14-12-2020 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ BEIJING: Learning of the Urdu language has become a new trend among Chinese students, said the Urdu professor of a Chinese university on Sunday. Prof Zhou Yuan is heading the Urdu Department at the School of Asian and African Studies of the Beijing Foreign Studies …

12-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies PARIS: French authorities have shut down the only school in Paris that caters to Muslims, media reported, saying that the crackdown on the community was intensifying. According to the publication, the 4.5 million strong ‘Muslim Community’ in the country is facing increasing pressure from …

12-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ MELBOURNE/ KARACHI: A British-Pakistan has accused officers of the Metropolitan Police as well as Immigration and Newham Council officials of a “campaign of discrimination, harassment, and persecution”. Iqbal Sethi’s troubles started on September 19 last year when a joint team …

10-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ JALALABAD/ ISLAMABAD: Another Shia journalist shot dead in Afghanistan along with her driver but neither the “West” could still recognize Shias nor wants to know who are Shias, who kills them, why they are being genocide, where they live, what is their …

10-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ OTTAWA/ ISLAMABAD: The Indian government’s offer to amend three laws in a set of new agricultural rules that has led to weeks of protests was rejected by farmers on Wednesday, who vowed to intensify demonstrations. The farmers maintained that …

08-12-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Sikh farmers in India on Monday demonstrated religious solidarity at the farmers’ protest by standing up with their Muslim counterparts. In a video shared on Twitter by Indian journalist Rana Ayyub, some Muslim participants at the farmer’s protest in Delhi …