OVER 950,000 AFGHANS RETURNED HOME, SAY TALIBAN OFFICIALS

Thu 10 August 2023: More than 952,000 Afghan refugees have returned home over the last year from neighboring countries, the interim Taliban administration said Wednesday. According to the interim Ministry of Refugee and Repatriations, 952,589 Afghan refugees returned to Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan and other countries over the past year, state news agency BNA reported. […]

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SECRET PAKISTAN CABLE REVEALS US PRESSURE TO DEPOSE FORMER PM IMRAN KHAN: REPORT

Thu 10 August 2023: The US State Department in a meeting on March 7, 2022 encouraged the Pakistani government to remove Imran Khan as the country’s Prime Minister over his neutrality in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, US-based news outlet The Intercept reported citing a classified Pakistani government document.  The meeting between the Pakistani […]

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VIDEO SHOWS HINDU OUTFITS DEMANDING BOYCOTT OF MUSLIMS IN INDIA’ S GURUGRAM

Wed 09 August 2023: Gurugram : In a purported video, a group of Hindus carrying the banner of Nuh’s Brij Mandal Jalaabhishek Yatra were seen urging shopkeepers in Haryana not to employ Muslims and to boycott the community vendors. The Hindu group gave out this warning during a rally in a market place in Haryana. […]

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ELECTION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN DISQUALIFIES IMRAN KHAN FOR FIVE YEARS

Tue 08 August 2023: In a major blow to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday disqualified PTI chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan for five years following his conviction in the Toshakhana case last week, Dawn News reported. An Islamabad trial court on Saturday sentenced Imran — who was […]

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INDIA COURT ASKS IF NUH DEMOLITIONS WERE ‘AN EXERCISE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING’

Tue 08 August 2023: An Indian court has asked whether days of demolitions of homes and businesses of mainly Muslim residents in the northern state of Haryana were “an exercise of ethnic cleansing”. Ordering a halt to four days of bulldozing of properties in the state’s Nuh district, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on […]

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‘VENGEANCE’: MUSLIM HOMES, SHOPS BULLDOZED; OVER 150 ARRESTED IN NUH IN INDIA’S HARYANA

  A bulldozer demolishes the allegedly illegally constructed Sahara hotel, in Nuh, Haryana, on Sunday. Pic/PTI Mon 07 August 2023: Residents in BJP-ruled state’s only Muslim-majority district say more than 300 properties have been demolished in four days. Nuh, India – Abdul Rasheed says police locked him in a bus as a bulldozer demolished his shops […]

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IMRAN KHAN’S ‘LIFE UNDER THREAT’ IN JAIL, SAYS PAKISTAN EX-PM’S PARTY

Mon 07 August 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party says it is concerned about his safety and security in prison, where “his life is under threat”. Khan, 70, was arrested and sent to jail for three years following his conviction in a corruption case by a court in capital Islamabad on Saturday. […]

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TALIBAN URGE WORLD BANK TO RESUME PROJECTS IN AFGHANISTAN

Thu 03 August 2023: The interim government in Afghanistan Tuesday called on World Bank to resume incomplete projects in the war-torn country. Welcoming the latest World Bank report on Afghanistan, the Taliban-led interim Economic Affairs Office said in a statement that the comprehensive economic development and progress in Afghanistan “can be achieved through constructive engagement […]

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DOZENS KILLED AFTER TRAIN DERAILS IN SOUTHERN PAKISTAN

Sun 06 August 2023: At least 22 people were killed and 80 were injured in Pakistan, after 10 bogies of the Rawalpindi-bound Hazara Express overturned as the train derailed. The accident happened near the Sahara Railway Station, located between Shahzadpur and Nawabshah on Sunday, reported Geo TV. The Hazara Express was headed to Rawalpindi from Karachi. […]

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GYANVAPI: HOPE THAT FLOOD GATES FOR THOUSAND BABRIS WON’T OPEN, SAYS OWAISI ON SURVEY

Sun 06 August 2023: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday raised concerns regarding the aftermath of the controversial survey at Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque that the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is currently conducting. He said that the Supreme Court’s observation regarding the Places of Worship Act in the landmark Ayodhya judgment must not be dishonoured. […]

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