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Pakistani activist Khurram Zaki murdered in Karachi...
( Pakistan )
Islambad:A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, has been shot dead in Karachi. Mr Zaki was dining in a restaurant in the city’s north when suspects opened fire from motorbikes, reports say. He was an editor of the website Let us Build Pakistan, which condemns sectarianism and is seen as promoting democratic and progressive values. The spokesman for a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban has said they were behind the shooting. He said they killed him because...
Leaked:Saudi King financed Netanyahu’s 2015 election bid...
( Zionist Israel )
Tel Aviv:A member of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) has revealed that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud helped finance the election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015. Citing a massive leak of confidential documents dubbed the “Panama Papers,” Isaac Herzog, who is the chairman of the Israeli Labor party said, “In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad...
US in a fight against Islam, Iran, Shias:Supreme Leader in a...
( Iran )
Tehran:On the occasion of the anniversary of the Ordainment of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), senior Iranian officials, ambassadors of Muslim states in Tehran as well as a group of families of martyrs met with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei Thursday. In the meeting, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution highlighted the survival of the two currents of “ordainment” and “paganism” since Islam’s heyday to date, noting that the main specification...
Israeli mask fell from Saudi Arabia:Sayyed Nasrallah...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:Leader of Islamic Resistance and Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said the Israeli enemy in its attempt to beat the resistance elements of strength went on waging a war against Syria, deploring the Saudi contacts with ‘Israel’ that started to come out to the public. Sayyed Nasrallah During a ceremony held by the Islamic Resistance Support Organization on Friday, Sayyed Nasrallah said the resistance incubator environment was one of the most important elements of strengths...
Daesh launched attack in Iraq...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:Daesh terrorists have reportedly used internationally-banned chemical weapons in their recent offensive against a Shia Turkmen-populated town in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk. Head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Arshad Salihi, said in a statement on Friday that the extremists lobbed a barrage of mortar rounds, which contained chemical agents, on the town of Tuz Khurmatu, situated 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) south of oil-rich city of Kirkuk, on March 9. Three civilians lost their lives...
5,677 Palestinians arrested by Israel since last October...
( Palestine )
Gaza:Israeli forces have arrested up to 5,677 Palestinians since last October, which marks the beginning of what is regarded as the third Palestinian Intifada (uprising), a Palestinian committee says. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said on Friday that the detentions were made across the Palestinian territories. Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, the head of the commission, also accused Israeli authorities of spreading terror and panic among Palestinians while employing force...
Saudi Arabia using US made cluster bombs in Yemen:Human Righ...
( Yemen )
Geneva:Human Rights Watch (HR) has criticized the US for selling cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia, urging Riyadh to stop using such banned arms that leave behind unexploded sub-munitions and endanger civilians. On Friday, Steve Goose, arms director at HRW and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, an international coalition of groups working to eradicate cluster munitions, called on Washington to stop producing and selling the internationally-banned weapons in compliance with international...
Syria will accept nothing short of final victory:Bashar al A...
( Syria )
Damascus:Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country will accept nothing less than “final victory” over the foreign-backed militants and the terrorists in Syria. In a telegram sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Assad said the Syrian army would not accept anything less than “attaining final victory” and “crushing the aggression” in its fight against militants in the city of Aleppo and elsewhere in the country. Aleppo has been the scene of a “regime of calm” brokered by...
World Muslims celebrate Eid al-Mab’ath...
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New Delhi:Muslims across the globe are holding celebrations to commemorate the auspicious occasion of Eid al-Mab’ath — the anniversary of the day Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was chosen as God’s messenger.
Muslims are holding ceremonies on Thursday to mark the occasion, which falls on the 27th of the month of Rajab on the lunar calendar.
Eid al-Mab’ath is a public holiday in many countries. On this day,In Iran Muslims gather at holy cities and sites, including Mashhad and Qom, to take part...
Israel settlement construction should keep going:Donald Trum...
( US )
Washington:Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says Israel should continue construction of illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank. Asked in an interview with the British paper Daily Mail whether there should be a pause in settlement construction in the occupied territories, Trump responded: “No, I don’t think there should be a pause.” Trump said the settlement construction must “keep going” and “keep moving forward,” because Palestinians fired “thousands...