KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Prominent Pakistani journalist and anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan, missing for more than four months, returned home on Monday, his lawyer and police said. He had been arrested at an airport in the Sialkot city of Punjab as he tried to leave the country after May 9 protests over former Prime Minister […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday said that his country wants peace with all neighbors, including India, but Kashmir remains “key to peace” with New Delhi. In his address to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, Kakar said Pakistan desires peaceful and productive relation...
SRINAGAR, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Dozens of people broke down when Kashmiri pro-freedom and religious leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ascended the pulpit of the medieval Jamia Masjid in Srinagar to deliver his first Friday sermon as a free man after four years of house detention. The 50-year-old Farooq also sobbed as he […]...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – A Moroccan media watchdog has said that it filed a complaint against two French newspapers for their “unethical coverage” of a devastating earthquake that hit the kingdom earlier this month. The Moroccan National Press Council (NPC) said it filed a complaint to the Press and Mediation Ethics Council in F...
LONDON (AA) – The EU and the UK have criticized Iran over the human rights situation on the first death anniversary of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in custody in Tehran after being arrested police for allegedly violating the country’s designated dress code for women. In a statement, EU foreign policy chief Josep […]
ATHENS (AA) – The Council of the EU has announced that it listed four more individuals and six more entities from Iran over serious human rights violations. “Today’s package follows the High Representative’s declaration on behalf of the European Union to mark the anniversary of the killing of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, while […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Two freedom fighters and four security officers were killed Wednesday in clashes in India’s Jammu and Kashmir region. A joint operation was launched by the Indian army and police based on intelligence indicating the presence of a group of freedom fighters in the Kokernag area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, ...
TRAPPES, France (AA) – A group of people staged a protest in the northern French city of Trappes on Friday against a ban on Muslim girls wearing abaya in schools. The group, along with some parents of schoolgirls, staged the protest under the banner “Don’t Touch My Abaya Community” in front of La Plaine de […]
Artux, China – AFP A policeman waves reporters away from a desert prison in Xinjiang, part of a network of detention facilities transformed by China’s shifting policies in the northwestern region. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been swept into internment camps where human rights abuses are commonplac...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in Belgium unanimously adopted a draft resolution Thursday making sex education compulsory in schools, triggering protests. The bill, which targets 85,000 students in the French-speaking Wallonia region and 25,000 in Brussels, was passed unanimously, with three deputies a...
