The transitional government of Bangladesh led by Muhammad Yunus has issued a call for national unity to combat propaganda against the country, allegedly spearheaded by India. During a recent address to political parties, Yunus highlighted the importance of unity beyond political lines to preserve national integrity. The government’s law advise...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI (AA) – A Pakistani court has indicted jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case related to the attack on army headquarters last year. Khan, and around 100 workers and leaders of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, pleaded not guilty. According to the prosecution, hundreds of PTI supporters stormed the ar...
Bangladesh officially summoned India’s High Commissioner Pranay Verma after an attack on its mission by a Hindu mob in India’s northeastern city of Tripura. The incident involved protestors breaching the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission, vandalizing the premises, and setting the national flag on fire. The mission protests were sparked by t...
ANKARA (AA) – A draft bill proposing changes to a law governing properties donated by Muslims in India has sparked significant opposition, local media reported Thursday. Millions of dollars’ worth of properties such as mosques, madrasas and shelters and thousands of acres of land donated by Muslims for religious or charitable purposes ar...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Calm returned to the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan returned to their homes after a security operation by the government. Businesses and roads inside and outside the capital reopened after Islamabad remained under lockdown for at least four days. However, ...
Three Muslims were killed as clashes erupted in a northern Indian town over a survey of a Mughal-era mosque. A local court recently ordered a survey of Shahi Jama Masjid in the Sambhal town of Uttar Pradesh state following a petition claiming the temple stood at the site of the mosque. On Sunday morning, when […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll in tribal clashes in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has climbed to 35, a local official confirmed. Tribal and sectarian clashes in the Kurram district near the Afghan border erupted late Friday following an attack on passenger vans by unidentified assailants on Thursday. R...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan says more than 750,000 Afghan nationals returned to their home country in the past one year, after Islamabad launched a repatriation drive last November. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told a weekly press briefing in Islamabad that the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan continues to ensure a ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least 11 people, including three women, have been killed and several others injured in a gun attack on passenger vans in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, according to police. Gunmen fired on a convoy of passengers in the Lower Kurram area, killing at least 11 passengers and injuring many [&hel...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI (AA) – At least 12 security personnel and six militants were killed in a suicide bombing and ensuing clashes in northwestern Pakistan, the army said on Wednesday. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a security check post in the Mali Khan area of the Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province before […]
