NEW DELHI (AA) – Authorities in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Saturday continued the demolition of houses and shops, which they believe belong to those responsible for communal clashes earlier this week. The clashes took place in the Muslim-majority Nuh district during a procession by the right-wing Hindu groups on Monday. Late...
HIROSHIMA, Japan – The world marks the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Both cities were reduced to rubble in 1945, at the end of World War II. The bombs killed over 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 people […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s former prime minister spent a third day in Attock prison in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. His lawyers plan to appeal his conviction in connection with an alleged government treasury corruption case. Khan, who is also chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the country’s larges...
Nawabshah, Pakistan (AFP): At least 28 people were killed Sunday when an express train derailed in southern Pakistan, the railway minister said, with an emergency declared at local hospitals struggling to deal with with dozens of injured. Accidents and derailments occur frequently on the country’s antiquated railway system, which has nea...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA): On the fourth anniversary of India’s revocation of the special status of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the mainstream political leaders in the region called it a “disempowering day for the people of the region.” People’s Conference President Sajad Lone said that the belittling of institutions, individuals and th...
ISTANBUL (AA): Calling for respect for the fundamental rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, speakers at an international conference in Istanbul on Friday sought the resolution of the Kashmir dispute on the basis of UN resolutions. Lawmakers, diplomats, activists and civil society members from Türkiye, Kuwait, Pakistan and Kashmir spoke a...
New Delhi, India (AFP): Most mosques were shut for Friday prayers in an important business hub on the outskirts of India’s capital after six people were killed in sectarian riots. Police were deployed in large numbers outside several mosques in Gurugram, a satellite city of New Delhi and a key business centre where Nokia, Samsung [&helli...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested at his home in Lahore on Saturday after a court in the capital found him guilty of graft and sentenced him to three years in jail. The former international cricket star has long warned he would be arrested to prevent him from participating in […]
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s Supreme Court on Friday stayed the conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case, paving the way for his return to parliament and contesting national elections next year. Gandhi was sentenced to two years in prison and disqualified in March in a case by a lawmaker from the […]
MOSCOW (AA): Armenia and Azerbaijan’s readiness to sign a peace treaty does not imply that they are willing to accept any conditions, a senior Russian diplomat has said. Denis Gonchar, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Fourth Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Department, told Russian state news agency TASS in an interview that ...