WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed recent violence in Israel and occupied West Bank, Palestine, the State Department said Tuesday. The diplomats had a telephone call Monday, said spokesman Ned Price. “The Secretary and Foreign Minister discussed the importanc...
KABUL (AA): At least six people were killed and 11 others injured after multiple blasts hit a boys school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, an official of Taliban-led interim government said. The explosions targeted Abdul Raheem Shaheed High School, which is located in the city’s district 18, said Khalid Zadran, a Kabul police s...
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 ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court on Monday handed the death penalty to six men found involved in lynching a Sri Lankan factory manager last year, according to local media and the court record. Another seven were sentenced to life imprisonment, while some 76 accused were given two-year jail terms over the incident that […...
Police in the Indian capital New Delhi have arrested 14 Muslims, according to The Wire. Muslims were resisting a RSS militia attack on their mosque on Saturday. A procession led by the Hindu militia Bajrang Dal attacked the mosque in the Delhi suburb of Jahangirpuri. According to area resident Salman Khan, they “tried to wave […]
Known for her compassion and selfless work, Bilquis Bano Edhi died Friday evening at Karachi, Pakistan’s Aga Khan Hospital. The 74-year-old was a mother to thousands of orphans across Pakistan, and a recipient of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice. She was also awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s recognition for the highest...
