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...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish army killed 13 PKK men in northern Syria, near Turkiye’s southern border, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said on Twitter that the “terrorists” attempted to attack an area falling under Turkiye’s Operation Peace Spring zone. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s military will release political detainees to create a favorable atmosphere for dialogue in the country, according to the army chief. “We have started procedures to release political detainees within two or three days,” Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said in a statement. He said the move aims to “set the atmosphere ...
