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ISTANBUL (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday strongly condemned the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book Quran in Sweden. In a statement, OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha denounced “the provocative actions of burning copies of the Holy Quran during anti-Muslim demonstrations, which have been taki...
KABUL (AA): At least six people were killed and 11 others injured after multiple blasts hit a boys school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, an official of Taliban-led interim government said. The explosions targeted Abdul Raheem Shaheed High School, which is located in the city’s district 18, said Khalid Zadran, a Kabul police s...
DHAKA (AA) – Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry criticized a US human rights country report on the South Asian nation, saying the sources of the report are questionable and it also contains a few factual errors. “For example, though we do not endorse their information, the Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) mentioned 275 extrajudicial killings (in Ban...
KABUL (AA): More than 130 children have died from the measles epidemic in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year. After the US army withdrew from the country, international aid was cut off and the economic crisis deepened. Children are the most affected by war, hunger and poverty. At least 16,000 children have been infected […]
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 ...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran on Monday said it is seriously pushing for an end to sanctions in the Vienna talks, urging the Biden administration to abandon the previous government’s “maximum pressure” policy toward Tehran. At a weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Biden’s team must do away with [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An international economic summit to encourage cooperation between Russia and the Islamic world will be held in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, from May 19-21. The 13th International Economic Summit: Russia-Islamic World: KazanSummit 2022, aims to foster cooperation in trade, economy, science and t...
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...
