04-08-2020 By SJA Jafri (Bureau Chief Australia) MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Majority of Australians has refused to accept the writ of state while, neither the state has any plan to maintain its writ across the board nor the citizens consider governmental orders or alerts hence, the foreigners especially non-Aussies have any fear …

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies JALALABAD/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least 21 people have been killed in ongoing fighting between Afghan security forces and gunmen who raided a jail overnight in an attack claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turned into Islamic State of Iraq and Levant …

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies + Int’l News Desk TEHRAN/ MELBOURNE/ HOUSTON/ LONDON/ BERLIN/ NEW DELHI: More than 18 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus as of Monday. Almost 11 million have recovered and while nearly 690,000 have died. The …

03-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies JALALABAD/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Fighters have attacked a prison compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, and a battle with security forces is under way, according to officials, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turned into Islamic …

01-08-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ NEW YORK/ LONDON: India has recorded 57,000 new corona virus cases – the highest daily total to date Maharashtra – home to the financial capital, Mumbai – is still the worst affected state In the UK, shielding ends for …

31-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ PARIS/ BEIJING/ ISLAMABAD: The first five Dassault Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday and the defence minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighbouring China over territorial …

31-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Over dozen people were killed in another car bomb explosion in an Afghan city as crowds shopped for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, officials and a medic said. “Seventeen bodies and 21 wounded people were brought to our …

30-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: A man accused of blasphemy for claiming that he was a prophet has been shot dead in a courtroom in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police officials say, the latest violence associated with Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws. Tahir Ahmad Naseem …

27-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ TEHRAN: The Taliban’s political chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, warned the US that an appropriate decision will be made if the American forces fail to pull out of Afghanistan according to the agreed timetable. In an interview with Tasnim, Abdul Ghani Baradar …

26-07-2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has accused the Afghanistan government of recapturing previously released prisoners from its ranks, an allegation rejected by the Afghan authorities. The government has released more than 4,000 Taliban fighters, while the group has released nearly 700 prisoners under a US-Taliban agreement …