WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN secretary general on Thursday warned the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated over the past months and appealed for “unconditional” $4.4 billion in aid for the war-stricken country. “Together with our partners, we aim to reach 22 million people with food, water, healthcare, protectio...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday faced another blow when a key allied party quit the ruling alliance ahead of a no-confidence motion submitted by the opposition against him. The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and allies had 179 seats in the 342-member National Assembly. But the Muttahida Qaumi M...
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation into a recent incident during a football match between Iran and Lebanon where women were barred from entering the stadium and pepper-sprayed. Speaking at a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Raisi ordered his interior minister to “thoroughly investigate” the matter and take “n...
ANKARA – South Korea has said that it has successfully test-fired a solid-fuel space rocket a week after North Korea’s inter-continental ballistic missile launch (ICBM). The test was conducted at Taean, 150 kilometers (around 93 miles) southwest of Seoul. “(The test) came at a very grave juncture in which North Korea has rece...
ISTANBUL – China has launched three new satellites into space to undertake scientific space environment surveys and model correction. The indigenously-built Long March-11 carrier rocket was blasted into space with the satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, shortly entering their planned orbit. The three s...
ISTANBUL – The Pakistani and Russian foreign ministers have separately met their Chinese counterpart Wang Yi . Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Sergey Lavrov are in China to attend the third meeting of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries due to take place this week. Wang received the Pakistani and Russian foreign ministe...
A member of the Karnataka legislative council in India called the banning of Muslims from conducting business on temple grounds “illogical.” Senior leader of India’s ruling BJP party H. Vishwanath said the government should break its silence and take action against temple authorities. He said the state of Karnataka is moving in the wrong direc...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Three Kashmiri students who were detained on charges of celebrating Pakistan’s victory against India in a cricket match last year have been granted bail. A court in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday announced the verdict. The students, Arhseed Yusuf, Showkat Ahmed Ganai and Inayat Altaf Sheikh, w...
GENEVA – As the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh is approaching its fifth year, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has called for international support for the refugees escaping genocide in Myanmar and for their Bangladeshi hosts. The 2022 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis was launched on March 29, and humanitari...
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has postponed his planned visit to India after his infection with Covid-19. Bennett was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on April 2, but his office said the visit will be rescheduled for another date. The visit was planned to mark 30 years of diplomatic relations between Israel […...
