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25-04-2021 LONDON/ WASHINGTON/ OTTAWA: More than one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, according to a tally, with more than half given in just three countries. At least 1,002,938,540 doses had been administered in 207 countries and territories by 17:45 GMT on Saturday, less than five months …

25-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Pakistan has officially reached out to India and offered support in the wake of a particularly lethal coronavirus wave in the country. “As a gesture of solidarity with the people of India in the wake of the current wave of …

24-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW YORK: Pakistan on Saturday assured ‘every possible assistance’ to the family of Nafiah Ikram, a Shia Pakistani descent who was left disfigured in an acid attack outside her home in New York that also left her nearly blind. “The …

24-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Dozens more Shia people have been killed in Afghanistan during ‘present’ ongoing target killing wave while thirteen (13) others have ether kidnapped or abducted for ransom or slaughtering including five young Shia girls, sources told PMI. According to the reports …

24-04-2021 COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan police have arrested a Muslim leader and member of parliament in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people as pressure to speed up the investigation mounted. Detectives took Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Party, into custody on Saturday …

24-04-2021 JAKARTA: Indonesian officials say debris from a missing submarine was found after the vessel sank as hopes of rescuing 53 sailors on board faded on Saturday. Items located included a bottle of lubricant and a device that protects a torpedo, Air Marshall Hadi Tjahjanto said. “The objects found near …

24-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Pakistan is willing to move forward in its engagement with India, potentially including formal bilateral dialogue on resolving the Kashmir dispute, if its eastern neighbor takes certain specified steps “to ease lives” in Kashmir, senior Pakistani sources have told media. …

24-04-2021 RIYADH/ MACCA: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh on Friday said that in the light of Islamic laws, it is “not permissible” for a COVID-19 positive patient to mingle with others. As reported by the Saudi Guzette, the grand cleric appealed …

23-04-2021 JERUSALEM: More than 100 Palestinians and 20 Israeli police have been wounded in overnight violent clashes that ensued after far-right Israelis marched in the occupied East Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs”. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it had treated at least 105 people, with some 20 of them hospitalized. …

23-04-2021 By SJA Jafri + Agencies + Bureau Report NEW YORK/ KARACHI: A group of “Young White Terrorists” threw acid on a Shia Pakistani college student in Long Island, a suburb of New York City, disfiguring her face and shattering her life in an attack that activists want investigated as …