Srinagar: A suicide car bomb attack on a bus carrying police officers and workers in central Afghanistan killed at least five people Saturday, officials said. Another 12 were wounded in the Taliban-claimed blast in the Wardak provincial capital of Maidan Shar, provincial police spokesman Hekmatullah Durrani told AFP. The explosion happened as the bus entered […]
Istanbul: Turkish prosecutors have demanded the extradition of 18 Saudi suspects, who were arrested in Saudi Arabia a week ago over their alleged roles in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Istanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office submitted the extradition request to Turkey’s justice ministry to be delivered to Saudi officials, Xinhua reported, quoting broadcaster NTV. […]
Manama: Saudi Arabia will prosecute the suspects in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Riyadh’s foreign minister said Saturday in response to a call by Turkey for their extradition. “On the issue of extradition, the individuals are Saudi nationals. They’re detained in Saudi Arabia, and the investigation is in Saudi Arabia, and they will be […]
Srinagar: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Saudi Arabia on Friday to disclose who ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, as well as the location of his body, heightening international pressure on the kingdom to come clean on the case. Erdogan said Turkey had more information than it had shared so far about […]
Islamabad: Afghan Taliban has said that their former deputy Chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had been set free by Pakistani authorities. “It is stated with great pleasure that former deputy of the Islamic Emirate Alhaj Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who had been imprisoned in Pakistan for the last nine years, was released from jail,” a […]
Srinagar: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed is not covered by freedom of expression. Defaming the Prophet “goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” and “could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace,” the ruling stated. The decision by a seven-judge panel […]
New York: Former US president Barack Obama and ex-secretary of state Hillary Clinton have been targeted by explosive devices sent in the mail, while a similar package was sent to the CNN offices in New York. The device, addressed to former CIA director John Brennan, was found around 1000 hours at the CNN mailroom, prompting […]
Srinagar: The UN independent expert on freedom of opinion and expression, has said he’s ‘very disappointed’ that Member States have so far failed to back calls for an independent international investigation into the ‘evident murder’ of dissident Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. In an exclusive interview with UN News, Special Rapporteur David Kaye, urged all governments […]
Srinagar: In its first, careful steps toward punishing the Saudis involved in the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the US administration has revoked 21 visas of Riyadh men linked to the murder, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. It was the first concrete step by the Donald Trump administration after the disclosure of […]
Srinagar: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, having promised to reveal the “naked truth” of a Saudi plot to kill the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said on Tuesday in a speech to Parliament that a team including Saudi generals had flown in to carry out the mission. Erdogan’s much-anticipated address came after more than two weeks of […]
