09-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ GARDEZ/ ISLAMABAD: Five government secondary schools for girls have resumed classes in eastern Afghanistan after hundreds of students demanded they reopen, a provincial official said Thursday. Officially the Taliban have banned girls’ secondary school education, but the order has been ignored in …

09-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive” global support for Pakistan where unprecedented floods have killed nearly 1,400 people and made more than a million people homeless. Guterres made the appeal as he landed in the Pakistani capital early on …

09-09-2022 LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in the United Kingdom’s history, died on Thursday aged 96, with her son Charles succeeding her as king. Here is an explanation of what happens next, including the protocol surrounding the accession of a new monarch. Who will succeed her? Clarence House …

09-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies OTTAWA/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab Emirates awaiting resettlement to the United States and elsewhere, seven sources said. Ottawa …

08-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Munni Begum was 10 when her mother made her drop her last name. At that time, she did not understand why. She often accompanied her mother and grandmother as they juggled multiple cleaning, cooking and caregiving jobs in the Indian capital, New Delhi …

08-09-2022 LONDON: Doctors are concerned about the health of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and recommended the monarch remains under medical supervision, Buckingham Palace said. The announcement on Thursday came a day after the 96-year-old monarch cancelled a meeting of her Privy Council and was told to rest. The palace said …

08-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ MOHENJO-DARO: The devastating floods in Pakistan have caused significant damage to Mohenjo Daro, a famous 4,500-year-old archaeological site in the southeastern Sindh province which UNESCO has declared a World Heritage site. The area in Sindh’s Larkana district received more than 1,400mm …

08-09-2022 CALIFORNIA: Apple on Wednesday is expected to unveil a new range of iPhone 14 models and Apple Watches that will test how willing consumers are to upgrade gadgets in the face of inflation and economic gloom. Analysts expect Apple to announce that the latest iPhones can send emergency messages …

08-09-2022 LONDON: The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss has selected a cabinet where for the first time a white man will not hold one of the country’s four most important ministerial positions. Truss appointed Kwasi Kwarteng whose parents came from Ghana in the 1960s as Britain’s first Black finance …

08-09-2022 OTTAWA: The suspect sought by Canadian authorities in a weekend stabbing spree that killed 10 people in and around an indigenous reserve was arrested on Wednesday but suffered unspecified “medical distress” and died a short time later at a hospital, police said. Official word that the four-day manhunt for …