TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canadian star hockey player Nazem Kadri, the first Muslim to be on a Stanley Cup winning team, returned to his hometown of London, Ontario, on Saturday to celebrate the historic victory. As a Muslim, Kadri’s return is poignant. In 2021, four members of a Muslim family were run down and killed […]
KHAIRPUR, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of Pakistanis displaced by unprecedented floods are now facing an even worse ordeal: the outbreak of waterborne and other diseases. The Sindh Health Department confirmed in a statement that over 170,000 people, including 52,000 suffering from diarrhea, have been recorded from flood-affected areas of the prov...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan called “highly regrettable” a claim by the Taliban government that the US is using Pakistan’s airspace for drone operations inside Afghanistan. A statement issued by Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry late Sunday said Islamabad has noted with deep concern the allegation by Afghanistan’s acting Defense Minister Mullah M...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – With another 10 deaths over the past 24 hours, the overall toll from massive floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains across Pakistan reached 1,061, an official said on Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, an official from the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the death toll ha...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday the country’s nuclear program has become indigenous and arch-foe Israel has been unable to prevent its progress through sabotage, assassinations, and threats. Raisi was addressing a news conference in Tehran, attended by local and foreign media, and coinciding wit...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday announced his total withdrawal from politics. “I declare that I have quit political work and withdrawn completely from politics,” al-Sadr said in a statement on twitter. The firebrand cleric also announced the closure of all institutions except his father’s shr...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid accused Pakistan on Sunday of providing airspace for US drones to enter his country, characterizing the incursions as a continuation of Washington’s “invasion”. Mujahid’s comments came less than a month after US President Joe Biden announced the k...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Major pro-Indian political parties in Indian-occupied Kashmir are worried that allowing outsiders to vote in future local assembly elections will disempower the native population. The elections will be the first since the Indian government revoked the region’s autonomy in 2019, raising concerns that Mus...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnians gathered Sunday to commemorate the 27th anniversary of a massacre that claimed 43 lives and injured nearly 84 in Sarajevo. The 1995 Markale marketplace shelling was one of the biggest massacres committed during the siege of Sarajevo from April 1992 to December 1995. It was the second mortar attack that [&hellip...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan on Sunday called for an immediate end to Israeli violations at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Foreign Ministry spokesman Haitham Abu Alfoul said settler intrusions into the holy site “represent a flagrant and unacceptable violation of international law and the historic and legal st...
