BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi security forces announced Monday the seizure of nearly one million Captagon pills in the possession of a foreign drug trafficker. According to a statement, security forces seized large quantities of the drug hidden in a truck en route to a northern province. The statement did not name the nationality of the [&hellip...
Khuiratta, Pakistan (AFP): After spending weeks in Libya trying to reach Europe illegally, Muhammad Naeem Butt turned back — abandoning a journey that has already cost hundreds of Pakistani lives this summer. Shovelling sand onto a truck surrounded by Pakistan’s Kashmir valley, he says he ended his bid for a better life when an ove...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s parliament has approved new anti-narcotics legislation, removing capital punishment for drug trafficking convicts. “Anti-narcotics bill passed, removing capital punishment,” Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar tweeted. The legislation “Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 2023” was passed during a...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s defense minister has said “every citizen” needs arms due to a “deteriorating” security situation in several parts of the country. Khawaja Asif made these remarks while endorsing a demand from several lawmakers during a parliamentary session in Islamabad on Monday for the issuance...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): A policeman was killed in an explosion in a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said. The explosion occurred in the Khyber tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, Shoukat Abbas, head of the police’s counter terrorism cell, said. He said an investigation had begun ...
WASHINGTON (AA) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose the death penalty for anyone caught trafficking children. Trump said if he is elected back to the White House next year, he will combat human trafficking with a heavy hand. He called it modern day slavery. “When I am back in the White House, […]
NEW YORK (AA) — FBI analysts ran improper searches on a US senator and two state officials using a foreign intelligence database, according to a declassified court opinion released Friday. According to an April 2023 opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which oversees the FBI’s surveillance authority known as Sec...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA): More than 20 people, including soldiers, were killed and dozens others wounded on Monday when a suicide bombing rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu, a senior official said. A senior security officer in Mogadishu, who spoke to Anadolu on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a suicide [&he...
Pechi Awang Leikai, India (AFP): Gender trumped tribe for a group of furious Indian mothers who torched the homes of two men from their own community who were accused of abusing women in a video that sparked outrage. At least 120 people have been killed during months of ethnic conflict between the predominantly Hindu Meitei […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Elite Bangladeshi forces have arrested a leader of a Rohingya group from the southeastern Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. Hafez Nur Mohammad, camp resident and commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), was captured by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in an overnight operation, the unit’s Legal and Media Wi...
