JERUSALEM – Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque on Islam’s holy night of Laylat al-Qadr. Palestinian youth threw stones, lit fires and tore down police barricades in the streets leading to the […]
KABUL – Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said. A senior interior ministry official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that most of the casualties were students coming out of the Sayed ul Shuhada school. Footage […]
JERUSALEM – Israeli police attacked Muslim worshippers late on Friday inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. Some 53 Palestinians were injured in the clashes inside the Haram al-Sharif area, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement. Israeli police attempted to disperse worshippers inside the Haram al-Sharif via stun grenade and […]
TEHRAN – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called Israel “not a country, but a terrorist base” during a speech on Al-Quds Day, an annual show of solidarity with the Palestinians. Thousands massed for rallies across several Muslim-majority countries including Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan for the day, seen in Israel as an expression […]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday left for Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit to discuss bilateral relations between the countries. According to Dawn, it is expected that Khan’s visit will serve to improve “strained” relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that were shaken in the recent past due to several reasons. […]
KABUL – A day after the Taliban issued a threat against the media persons, a high-profile television journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan’s Kandahar city on Thursday. Nemat Rawan, a former anchor of the country’s leading broadcaster and a media official at the Ministry of Finance, was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in […]
ISLAMABAD – Drawing a comparison between the Indian and Pakistan embassies abroad, Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the country’s ambassadors serving abroad to abandon colonial-era attitudes and treat their diaspora with compassion. Khan on Wednesday rebuked his diplomats while addressing his envoys posted around the world virtually, for their failure to serve overseas Pakistanis […]
MAKKAH – The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has documented Hajar Al-Aswad or the Black Stone at Kaaba with a Focus Stack Panorama in 49,000 megapixel image. The presidency said in a statement on its Twitter account that specially processed high-resolution images have been captured of the Black Stone, the […]
NEW DELHI – A shipment of 282 oxygen cylinders, 60 oxygen concentrators, ventilators and other medical supplies from Kuwaiti reached India on Tuesday to help the country fight the second wave of coronavirus. Arindam Bagchi, official spokesperson, the Ministry of External Affairs expressed gratitude to Kuwait for this gesture and said it would deepen fraternal […]
BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday offered help to India in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese state media reported. According to China’s state media agency Xinhua, President Xi Jinping also “extended condolences” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Covid-19 pandemic in India. “President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolences […]