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 […...
Amnesty International is describing India’s repeated denial of bail to jailed Muslim activist Umar Khalid as a “big blow” to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Thirty-four year old Khalid, along with more than a dozen other Muslims, is accused of being part of a “larger conspiracy” that led to religious riots in New Delhi […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Senior officials from Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Qatar met in Doha at the weekend for talks on the situation in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said on Monday. The three-way meeting of acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, and Lolwah Al-Khater, deputy foreign ministe...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday nominated the head of his allied party as the new chief minister of key Punjab province, in an attempt to bag five crucial votes against the opposition’s no-trust motion which could de-seat him. Information Minister Farrukh Habib confirmed that Usman Buzdar, the ch...
ANKARA (AA) – Ayaz Mutallibov, the first president of Azerbaijan after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union, passed away Sunday at the age of 83. Mutallibov was born in the capital Baku in 1938. After graduating from the Azerbaijan State Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry in 1962, Mutallibov in 1963 became a [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has denied claims by Russia that the Azerbaijani army had withdrawn its troops from a village in Karabakh and that it had violated a cease-fire agreement. “There have been no changes in the positions of the Azerbaijan Army in the village of Farrukh and on the surrounding high grounds, which are […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Tens of thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s ruling party gathered Sunday in the capital, Islamabad, in a show of support ahead of a no-confidence vote against beleaguered Prime Minister Imran Khan. Waving the national and tri-color party flags, supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party from across the c...
