The transgender community on Friday slammed religious elements in the country who are opposing the Transgender Persons (transgender acts), Act (2018). Addressing a news conference in the National Press Club, transgender community representative Nayab Ali said that the law guarantees all fundamental rights of the transgender community of Pakistan, but it was being attacked by […]
Police have arrested a man, who is the son of renowned journalist Ayaz Amir, for allegedly murdering his Canadian national wife, only a day after her arrival in the country from Dubai, where she had been working. According to the police, the deceased was identified as Sara Inam, 37, and she was the third wife […]
A larger bench of the IHC will start proceedings of the case at 2:30 pm on Thursday. A larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) will frame contempt of court charges against PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday for passing controversial remarks about Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry during a rally in […]
Pro-Taliban imam among the dozens dead and wounded in a suicide attack on the Guzargah Mosque in western Herat city. A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as civilians, police said. “Eighteen people were martyred in the incident and 23 […]
Lyra McKee, a well-known Northern Irish journalist who was killed while covering violence in Londonderry in 2019, saw two men indicted for her murder appear in court on Friday. In addition to murder; Gearoid Cavanagh (33), and Jordan Devine (21), were charged with arson; throwing petrol bombs, and murder. McKee, 29, was shot and killed […]
Usman Mirza is the co-owner of Autoland in Islamabad, a showroom that deals with new and used cars, real estate, and rent-a-car. His Facebook page says he studied computer science at Punjab College of Commerce in Islamabad. The page is filled with short, slow-motion videos showing him walking with an ‘entourage’ of young men. In […]
Responding to today’s announcement declaring Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s next president, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: Ebrahim Raisi has Risen: “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency; instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder; enforced disappearance; torture; is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran. In […]
“There is evidence that this was a planned; premeditated act, motivated by hate,” Detective Superintendent Paul Waight of the London, Ontario, police department told reporters. Four members of a Canadian Muslim family; who were killed on Sunday when a pickup truck jumped the curb and ran them over were targeted in an anti-Islamic hate crime; […]
A top Maldivian official said Saturday that Islamic militants behind ex-assassination president’s, Mohamed Nasheed earlier this week, while police said they had detained two of four suspects. Nasheed, 53, was conscious and no longer required breathing support. According to hospital officials on Saturday, he remains in an intensive care unit following initial life-saving surgeries to […]
A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic. Five people were hospitalized after the Thursday night shooting, according to police. One […]
