DOHA, Qatar – Qatar’s Shura Council has condemned Israeli attacks on worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. We express our “condemnation of the Israeli practices of storming the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking Palestinian worshipers,” the advisory council stated. It called for swift “internat...
SANAA, Yemen – UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg arrived in the country’s interim capital Aden for talks with government officials. The UN envoy was accompanied by Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Ali Al-Maqdashi and Faraj Al-Bahsani, a member of the newly formed Presidential Council. On April 17, Grundberg held talks in the Saudi capital, Riya...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI – Pakistani and Indian political observers do not foresee any immediate easing of heightened hostilities between the two nuclear neighbors despite a recent regime change in Islamabad. The already fraught relations between the two countries further worsened in ugust 2019, when New Delhi stripped the disputed Jammu and ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court on Monday handed the death penalty to six men found involved in lynching a Sri Lankan factory manager last year, according to local media and the court record. Another seven were sentenced to life imprisonment, while some 76 accused were given two-year jail terms over the incident that […...
Police in the Indian capital New Delhi have arrested 14 Muslims, according to The Wire. Muslims were resisting a RSS militia attack on their mosque on Saturday. A procession led by the Hindu militia Bajrang Dal attacked the mosque in the Delhi suburb of Jahangirpuri. According to area resident Salman Khan, they “tried to wave […]
Known for her compassion and selfless work, Bilquis Bano Edhi died Friday evening at Karachi, Pakistan’s Aga Khan Hospital. The 74-year-old was a mother to thousands of orphans across Pakistan, and a recipient of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice. She was also awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s recognition for the highest...
South Korean pop singer Daud Kim posted an Instagram picture of himself standing in front of the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. Kim shared pictures of his pilgrimage to the two Grand Mosques in Makkah and Madinah as part of his visit to the kingdom during Ramadan. He posted a picture of himself […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Sardar Tanveer Ilyas of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was elected as the new prime minister of Azad Kashmir on Monday. Ilyas, a businessman and close friend of Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, was elected unopposed, state-run Pakistan Television reported. The opposition alliance led by the Pakis...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish army killed 13 PKK men in northern Syria, near Turkiye’s southern border, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said on Twitter that the “terrorists” attempted to attack an area falling under Turkiye’s Operation Peace Spring zone. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Opposing legislators wrestled with fists and roughed each other up on Saturday in a provincial assembly in Pakistan just moments before the election of a new chief minister. The provincial assembly was convened on the orders of a high court in Lahore, Punjab’s capital, to elect the province’s new chief minister, ...
