02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said the Indian army’s statement that its troops pre-empted the Chinese military’s actions, “fully proves that it was the first to illegally cross the border in an act of provocation”, Global Times reported. …

02-09-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies BAGHDAD/ PARIS/ TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: French President Emmanuel Macron pledged support for Iraq on Wednesday and said the main challenges facing the country are Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Daesh or ISIS) group fighters and foreign …

31-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI/ BANGALORE/ HYDERABAD: India’s economy shrank by 23.9 percent between April and June, the worst contraction on record since New Delhi started publishing quarterly statistics, government data showed on Monday. The steep dip in Asia’s third-largest economy in the …

31-08-2020 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) MELBOURNE/ HYDERABAD DECCAN (TALANGANA STATE OF INDIA): Several First Information Reports (FIRs) and other cases have been registered against Syed Najaf Ali Shoukat, the President of Markazi Anjuman Matami Grouhan and the world most reputed and famous senior Indian journalist in continuation …

31-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: China has carried out “provocative military movements” in the Himalayan border area disputed between the two countries overnight from Saturday to Sunday, according to an Indian army statement, in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. Indian troops pre-empted Chinese army’s …

30-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Reports + Agencies+ Int’l News Desk KARBALA/ TEHRAN/ NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD DECCAN/ KARACHI/ LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK/ MELBOURNE/ KABUL/ KUWAIT CITY/ SAMASCUS/ SANA’A/ MADINA/ QATIF/ABUJA (NIGERIA): Millions of Muslims, wearing gloves and face masks, have marked the martyrdom anniversary of the third Shias’ Imam …

27-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WELLINGTON/ CHRISTCHURCH/ MELBOURNE: The New Zealand gunman behind last year’s Christchurch massacre that killed 51 Muslim worshipers was sentenced to life imprisonment. The families of victims had demanded that he remain behind bars “until his last gasp.” The gunman who killed …

26-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WELLINGTON/ CHRISTCHURCH/ MELBOURNE: The father of murdered three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand (NZ) mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that “true justice” awaited him in the next life and it would …

25-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in a meeting with a Taliban Political Commission (TPC) delegation on Tuesday, warned of “spoilers who did not wish to see return of peace in the region”. The TPC delegation was headed …

25-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KARACHI/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE/ PESHAWAR/ QUETTA: Walking through the Karachi Company bazaar in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the coronavirus pandemic seems a world away. Groups of shoppers gather at the small stalls that line the alleys of the market, selling everything from …