KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Civilian authorities in Pakistan continue to hand over suspects to the army for their alleged involvement in attacks on military installations in May. As the probe into the May 9 attacks proceeds, authorities on Monday handed over a lawyer associated with the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to the...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hundreds of Syrians staged a general strike on Sunday against deteriorating living conditions and price hikes, local media reported, amid a series of sporadic demonstrations in the country’s regime-held south. The rare strike in Sweida province comes after the government this week lifted fuel subsidies, dealin...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani President Arif Alvi said on Sunday that his staff messed up on two controversial bills passed by the Parliament earlier this month. The outgoing lower house or the National Assembly passed the Official Secrets Amendment Bill 2023 and Pakistan Army Amendment Bill 2023, aimed at expanding the role of the [&hell...
Huwara, Palestinian Territories – AFP Schools were shut Sunday in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara as Israeli troops searched for the suspected killer of an Israeli father and his son who were shot dead over the weekend. The two Israeli men were gunned down Saturday at a car wash in Huwara, in the […]
TORONTO (AA) – The UN Security Council has denounced a shooting earlier this month at a Shiite Muslim shrine in Iran. Council president Linda Thomas-Greenfield issued a statement saying its members condemned “in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent people and pilgrims at the Shah-e-Cheragh shrin...
Jaranwala, Pakistan – AFP Police were guarding a Christian neighbourhood in Pakistan on Thursday, after hundreds of men rampaged through its streets burning and ransacking churches and homes over accusations of blasphemy a day earlier. The violence broke out in Jaranwala, on the outskirts of the industrial city of Faisalabad, after alleg...
Faisalabad, Pakistan – AFP Hundreds of men set fire to four churches and vandalised a cemetery in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy. The attacks broke out in Faisalabad city after the Christian family was accused of desecrating the Quran. “There is a stand-off between t...
-Flag belonged to Bajrang Dal, a far-right extremist group accused of violence against Muslims and Christians in India. EDISON, NJ — The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) has condemned the display of a Hindu nationalist group’s flag during the India Day Parade in Edison, New Jersey. India celebrated its 77th Independence Day on Tuesd...
Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP Afghanistan’s Taliban government marked on August 15 the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with celebrations and a public holiday, issuing a defiant statement commemorating their surge back to power. Flags of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the name given to the country by its n...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt’s president on Monday welcomed the Palestinian and Jordanian leaders, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s spokesman said, with a source adding they discussed speculations over Saudi Arabia moving to normalise ties with Israel. Sisi met with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the n...
