Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi teen Mahir Sarowar Megh was five years old when he woke up to discover his parents, a prominent journalist couple, had been stabbed to death in their family home. The gruesome 2012 murder outraged the country’s close-knit media fraternity and has never been solved, though rumours persist that the...
ANKARA (AA) – A bill proposed to the parliament by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government seeking to amend the law governing Waqf boards has come under sharp focus, drawing criticism. Experts liken the move to a “takeover” of the autonomous bodies by the government. The Waqf boards are responsible for ma...
Mian Channu, Pakistan – AFP Dozens of villagers gathered in front of the modest home of Pakistan athlete Arshad Nadeem to watch the hulking javelin thrower take part in the Olympic Games final. The event was broadcast live by a digital projector onto a screen hanging on the back of a truck in his farming […]
ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan has said that it wants to “deepen cooperation” with Bangladesh, a day after Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in to lead a 17-member transitional government in Dhaka. Extending “heartiest felicitations” to Yunus, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said: “I look forward to working with him to ...
Tokyo, Japan — AFP The US ambassador to Japan skipped a ceremony on Friday marking the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in protest at Israel not being invited. Rahm Emanuel instead attended a prayer meeting at a Tokyo temple with Israeli ambassador Gilad Cohen and Britain’s Julia Longbottom, who also boycotted the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japan on Friday commemorated the US atomic bombing of the city in 1945, while refusing to invite Israel to the ceremonies. At 11.02 a.m. local time, the exact moment a US B-29 airplane released its bomb over Nagasaki, the city fell silent in remembrance. The tragic event at the end of World […]
KARACHI, Pakistan ( AA) – Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem on Thursday won the gold medal for the country after 40 years, breaking the Olympic record with a monstrous 92.97m throw in the men’s javelin final at Paris 2024. It was the sixth longest throw of all time, and Asia’s best ever in Olympics. Nadeem, whose first throw was declared [&...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Thursday welcomed the new interim government in Bangladesh led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, saying it hoped to work together to advance democracy. “We welcome Dr. Yunus’s call for an end to the recent violence and we stand ready to work with the interim governmen...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was sworn into office Thursday as Bangladesh’s interim leader, vowing to guide the country back to democracy after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, who only returned home hours earlier, swore to “uphold, support and protect t...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. Yunus, 84, could be sworn in as the country’s new leader as soon as Thursday evening to begin what the army chief […]
