KABUL: Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief is helping tens of thousands of Afghan families, many of whom have no access to other assistance as international support for the war-torn country is drying up. KSrelief has been providing lifesaving aid to Afghan civilians even when major global
JAKARTA: Myanmar has ceded its turn to chair the Southeast Asian regional bloc, an official confirmed on Tuesday, after the group agreed that an existing, but widely-criticised peace plan will continue to guide its response to the bloody conflict there. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
NEW DELHI: India was buzzing with speculation on Tuesday over rumoured plans to scrap the official usage of the country’s English name after a state-issued invite sent to world leaders referred to it as “Bharat”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has worked to remove lingering symbols
NAIROBI: An initiative to boost Africa's carbon credit production 19-fold by 2030 drew hundreds of millions of dollars of pledges on Monday as Kenyan President William Ruto opened the continent's first climate summit. In one of the most anticipated deals, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed
NEW DELHI: Renowned Khalistani leader and Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has appealed to the Sikhs and Kashmiri Muslims to move New Delhi for a march towards the venue where the G20 Summit is scheduled to be held in the second week
ISLAMABAD: An international expert has strongly condemned Narendra Modi’s government for inciting hatred against Muslims in India. Dr Somdeep Sen, an expert in International Development Studies, has written in an article that India’s attitude towards Muslims is moving towards the United Nations definition of genocide, especially
WASHINGTON: A noted Kashmiri leader told the annual Convention of the Islamic Society of North American (ISNA) in Chicago that Jammu and Kashmir, which India unilaterally annexed in August 2019, was now “a full-fledged settler-colonial project,” one similar to Israel’s in the occupied Palestinian territories. “A
NEW YORK: As the number of US mass shootings topped over 470, with numerous lives lost, President Joe Biden initiated a crackdown on the country's arms dealers who are involved in selling weapons without valid licenses — that enable them to perform screening of buyers
JAKARTA, Indonesia: Soldiers from the US, Indonesia and five other nations began annual training exercises on Indonesia’s main island of Java while China’s increasing aggression is raising concern. American and Indonesian soldiers have held the live-fire Super Garuda Shield drills since 2009, and Australia, Japan and
ADRÉ Chad: Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Sudan's war have crossed into Chad to find themselves in overcrowded camps, sweltering in plastic huts and awaiting healthcare that never comes. One of them, Adam Bakht, is an elderly man with a sparse beard who said he