Fri 14 February 2020: A peace deal with Taliban is “very close,” U.S. President Donald Trump said late Thursday. Earlier on the same day, the United States secured a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan that it hopes will allow it to strike a deal with the Taliban. The announcement came a day after Afghan […]
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FILE PHOTO Thu 13 February 2020: Pakistanis from all walks of life are eagerly awaiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s two-day official visit to Islamabad starting Thursday. The capital Islamabad’s main Kashmir Highway and other roads have been decorated with Turkish and Pakistani flags as well as life-size portraits of Erdogan, President Arif Alvi and […]
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Wed 12 February 2020: Malaysia is among 120 countries which bought rigged encryption devices from a Swiss company that was secretly owned by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Washington Post reports. The report did not state when Malaysia bought the encryption devices from Crypto AG or whether they are still being used. The […]
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Sun 09 February 2020: Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik has filed a defamation suit against former Batu Uban assemblyperson S Raveentharan over five postings uploaded to the latter’s Facebook page in October last year. Zakir, through legal firm Messrs Akberdin & Co, filed the writ of summons at the Kuala Lumpur High Court Registry on […]
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FILE PHOTO Sun 09 February 2020: Two US service members were killed and six others injured when an individual in an Afghan uniform opened fire on them, the US military said on Saturday. The incident, which took place in Nangarhar province, occurred after a combined US and Afghan force was returning from a “key-leader engagement,” […]
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Fri 07 February 2020: A Christian woman charged with blasphemy has escaped jail for bringing a dog into a mosque while suffering a bout of psychosis, the latest religious case to draw headlines in Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation. The case of Suzethe Margareth, 52, sparked outrage last summer when a video emerged showing her in a mosque […]
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Thu 06 February 2020: Plans for the construction of a grand Hindu temple on a holy site bitterly contested by Muslims moved forward Wednesday when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a trust had been finalized to oversee the project. The move came amid ongoing protests against a citizenship law that fast tracks naturalization for […]
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Wed 05 February 2020: Shaheen Bagh Protests: The woman – identified as Gunja Kapoor – raised suspicion when she kept asking “too many questions”, said eyewitnesses. New Delhi: A burqa-clad woman was whisked away this morning by police at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh – the heart of protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA – after her […]
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A man (face blurred as his being an adult could not be ascertained) brandishes a gun towards people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, near Jamia Millia Mon 03 February 2020: Amnesty International on Saturday warned that India was becoming a dangerous place for peaceful protesters, citing ruling party leaders’ remarks against demonstrators protesting a […]
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Sat 01 February 2020: In exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Imran Khan spoke on a range of global and domestic issues Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the international community that India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was preparing to repeat the Myanmar style genocide and exclusion of its minority population. He said that […]
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