Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week blamed America for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. In a televised speech, Khamenei said “The root cause of the Ukraine crisis is the U.S. and the West’s policies.” He added, the U.S. government creates and “feeds on crisis” Iran itself has been criticized for providing vital...
British nationals and brothers Saeed and Sakil Dawood were brutally killed in the 2002 Gujarat, India riots. Twenty years later, U.K. parliament member Kim Leadbeater may be questioning the Indian government’s failure in convicting those guilty of their killings. Leadbeater is an MP for Batley and Spen in the northern English county of Yorksh...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four security personnel were killed and over two dozen injured on Tuesday in a suspected suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan. The second such bombing in less than a week occurred in the remote Sibi district of Balochistan province, just 30 minutes after President Arif Alvi left the town following [&...
A boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, landed on the coast of Indonesia’s westernmost province Aceh on Sunday, police said. The vessel sailed from a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh, arriving shortly after 3 a.m. on a beach in Bireun BIRI YOON district. It carried 114 people, including 58 men, 21 […]...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday flayed European Union envoys for asking Islamabad to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine. In a letter to the Foreign Ministry this week, nearly two dozen EU ambassadors in Islamabad, including two veto powers, France and the UK, urged Pakistan to vote against...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least three policemen were killed and over two dozen injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, an official said. The blast that targeted a police van in a busy street occurred in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, Bushra Rindh, a provincial government spokeswoman, said....
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Tuesday welcomed a move by the UN Security Council to classify Yemen’s Houthi rebel group as terrorists and extend an arms embargo to all of its members. The OIC said in a statement that It hopes the UN’s decision will contribute to […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Around two dozen foreign ambassadors to Pakistan, including two veto powers – the UK and France – on Tuesday urged Islamabad to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine during the ongoing special session of the UN General Assembly. The international community “must work in solidarity and support and uphold the rules-based inter...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Imtiyaz Hussain Ahmad has vivid memories of the morning when a mob attacked his village of Naroda Gam, one day after Muslims were blamed for burning a train that killed 59 Hindus. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the deadly riots in Gujarat state on Feb. 28, 2002, in […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – A US delegation arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday for talks amid war between Russia and Ukraine. The “high-level bipartisan delegation of former US security officials” was received by Joseph Wu, the foreign minister of the self-ruled island, in the capital Taipei. “We thank the (Joe) Biden administration for ...
