Blasphemy allegations leading to vicious attack by extremist mobs, leading to public lynching and death has taken Pakistan by storm. In a recent incident this Wednesday, a 34-year-old Hindu man Prakash Kumar, a resident of a small town called Hub in Pakistan's Balochistan province, was arrested b

About 200 prisoners in Indonesia broke out of an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island on Friday, tearing down a gate near a mosque in the prison complex after being allowed out of their cells to pray, officials said. Inmates had complained about their treatment in the jail in Pekanbaru, Riau provin

An explosion at a mine in northern Iran today left at least 26 workers trapped in a mile-long tunnel filled with gas that hampered rescue efforts, media reports said. The coal mine in Golestan province collapsed when methane gas exploded underground as workers tried to jump-start a locomotive eng

New York [U.S.A.]: Palestinian militant outfit Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has said that United States President Donald Trump has an ‘historic opportunity’ to pressurise Israel to find an “equitable solution” for the Palestinian people. “The Trump administration has a greater threshold for boldnes

Kabul [Afghanistan]: The ISIS-Khurasan, an offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group, has claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack that targetted a convoy of the Resolute Support Mission forces led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Kabul. The

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas unveiled Monday a new policy document easing its stance on Israel after having long called for its destruction, as it seeks to improve its international standing. The document notably accepts the idea of a Palestinian state in territories occupied by Israel

Beirut: Airstrikes struck a center of Syria’s rescuers known as the White Helmets in a rebel-held area in the country’s center, killing eight volunteers, opposition activists said. The Saturday’s airstrike was one of the deadliest against the rescuers who operate in opposition-held areas and who

BEIJING: The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000-kilometres (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world. The journey is the latest effort in China's drive to strengthen trade links

* Kashif Hassan Khan, a Mumbai resident, was planning to marry his Turkish fiancee Ruqayya before she was jailed for downloading Bylock, a messenger app that was allegedly used in Turkey by plotters of the foiled coup last July. * Salman, a Turkish businessman, is in India for treatment but cannot

Quetta: At least eight Iranian border guards were killed in firing by suspected outlaws near the Sistan- Balochistan border along Pakistans troubled Balochistan province, state-run IRIB news agency reported. The border guards were killed after clashes erupted near the town of Mirjaveh in the Iran

Washington: In the first three months Donald Trump’s presidency, Islam phobic attacks are reported to have increased by 1,035% when compared to a similar period in 2016. Only seventeen cases were registered in the first quarter of the year, while the first one hundred days post Trump saw the rise

New Delhi: The trust deficit between Pakistan’s security establishment, primarily the Army as well as the ISI, and the country’s political leadership can be gauged from the fact that the former kept the process of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav’s trial completely secret and flagged it

Britain: Numerous Indians think, Britain is a land of jobs and opportunity for them. They try to overstay in London having their visas being expired. A report of HT says that the economic conditions have now changed for these people who stay there illegally. It has become harder to get jobs and b

Aden [Yemen]: As many as 10 soldiers were killed in a blast that struck a military camp in Yemen’s southern Aden city on Sunday, Anadolu news agency reported citing a military source. According to the source, the explosion took place inside a weapons depot in Jabal Hadid area in southern Aden.

WASHINGTON: The United States has accused top Indian IT firms TCS and Infosys of unfairly cornering the lion’s share of H-1B visas by putting extra tickets in the lottery — a system the Trump administration wants to replace with a more merit-based immigration policy. At a White House briefing l

Ramallah: Palestinian leaders on Wednesday denounced Israel’s refusal to negotiate with Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, warning of a “new intifada” if any of them die. Some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike that began Monday, according to Issa Qaraqe, head

Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will announce its verdict in the Panamagate case on April 20, Thursday, after it added the matter in its cause list on Tuesday. Confirming the news, ARY News tweeted: “PANAMA VERDICT has been finalised. Announcement will be in 60 hours.” Last year, the

JERUSALEM: Around 1,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons on Monday started an indefinite hunger strike to demand an improvement in their conditions. Akram Atallah, of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), told Efe news that it hopes more pri