24-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ PARIS: Pakistan will remain on a terrorism financing watch list until it completely implements a set of preventive guidelines, a global watchdog said, urging Islamabad to improve financial controls. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body, praised Pakistan for progress …

24-10-2020 KHARTOUM/ WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: Sudan and Israel have agreed to normalise relations, US President Donald Trump announced on Friday at the White House, a move that was denounced by Palestinians as a “new stab in the back”. Trump, who is seeking re-election on November 3, sealed the agreement in a …

23-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report NASHVILLE/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The final debate between US presidential nominees Donald Trump and Joe Biden did not bring good news for India as the US president described the air in India as “filthy”. The reference to India was made by Donald Trump …

23-10-2020 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia will allow a few hundred more citizens and permanent residents to return home from overseas each week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, in slight relaxation of a policy that has become the target of increasing criticism. Since July, the government has capped …

23-10-2020 DOHA/ CAIRO: Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has spent 1,400 days in prison under arbitrary and illegal detention by Egyptian authorities without trial or conviction. An Egyptian national working for the Al Jazeera Arabic television channel in Qatar, Hussein was arrested in Cairo on December 23, 2016 while on …

22-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An Afghan military air raid targeting Taliban fighters has killed at least 13 people, including children, and wounded 14 in an attack that hit a religious school and mosque in the northeastern province of Takhar, provincial officials said. In an account …

22-10-2020 TEHRAN: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei denounced recent normalization deals between a few Arab states and Israel, saying Muslim nations will never accept the humiliation of compromising with the Zionist regime. In a tweet late on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei added that Americans are badly mistaken …

22-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + BBC VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has said that he thinks same-sex couples should be allowed to have “civil unions”. He made the comments, which observers say are his clearest remarks yet on gay relationships, in a documentary directed by Evgeny Afineevsky. “Homosexual people have a …

22-10-2020 NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: Almost 75% Americans fear violence and riots will break out after the US Presidential Elections 2020 are held, revealed a poll by The Independent on Wednesday. A JL Partners-Independent poll revealed how 72% of American respondents said they were very or quite concerned about post-election violence. Interestingly, …

21-10-2020 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ NANGARHAR/ ISLAMABAD: Dozens Afghans have been killed and several injured in a stampede near a Pakistani consulate in eastern Afghanistan. The stampede occurred in a stadium in Jalalabad city where thousands of Afghans had gathered to secure visas from the consulate, officials …