NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s top court on Monday upheld the legality of legislation passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 that stripped the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region of its standing as a state as well as its special status. “We hold the exercise of presidential power to issue constitutional ord...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the Indian parliament’s legislation on the future of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dubbing it a “farce.” India’s parliament on Wednesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2023....
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) — An army officer was among three Indian soldiers killed in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday, according to police and media reports. Deputy Inspector General of Police Haseeb Mughal told reporters that a team of police and soldiers laid siege on an area in the Kalakote region of Rajouri district, nearly [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan has applied to join the BRICS economic bloc, its ambassador to Moscow said Wednesday. “We have already submitted an application. We are in contact with member countries to support Pakistan’s membership and count on Russia’s assistance,” Muhammad Khalid Jamali told Russian state news agency TASS. Jamali said Pakis...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has drawn a parallel between the ongoing spree of children’s killing in Gaza and one of the West’s few red lines, the holocaust. “We are witnessing a holocaust of Palestinian children in Gaza. This appalling and atrocious children holocaust must stop immediately,” ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Most of the 327,000 Afghan refugees returned from Pakistan are in “very bad condition,” a UN official has said. “Today, I’m here at the border with Pakistan in Torkham and I’m witnessing thousands of Afghans returning from Pakistan to Afghanistan,” UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator ad ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is expected to receive the second tranche of a $3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the loaning agency’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said. “I expect an agreement of the review to come within this week,” Georgieva told Bloomberg Television in an inter...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The acting Afghan industry and commerce minister met Tuesday with Pakistan caretaker foreign minister in Islamabad amid tension between the two neighbors concerning the eviction of Afghan refugees. Nuruddin Azizi arrived Monday in Islamabad along with a delegation to participate in a meeting with Pakistan and Uzbekistan....
ISTANBUL (AA) – Struggling with a broken economy, the interim Taliban administration in Kabul is seeking international aid to manage the Afghan refugee influx from neighboring Pakistan. “We call on the international community (including) Muslim countries to help,” Taliban’s nominee to the UN, Suhail Shaheen, told reporters, pointing to the rus...
Islam Qala, Afghanistan – AFP The number of Afghans coming home from Iran has doubled in the past month, a top border official said Wednesday, with returnees reporting growing pressure to leave. At least 14,480 Afghans have crossed at Islam Qala in four days since the weekend, said Abdullah Qayomi, head of refugee affairs at […]
