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According to reports from Kabul, Taliban militants have killed one of four civilians they had kidnapped earlier in the Jaghatu district of Ghazni province. Hassan Reza Yousufi, a member of provincial council said Sunday that these civilians were kidnapped by Taliban in the Qeyaq valley. One of them was a university student named Ali Javid, whose body was found, according to Yousufi, who had no information about three others. Provincial police spokesman Ahmad Khan Sirat also confirmed the murder of one of the four kidnapped civilians. Taliban have not yet commented on the incident. Taliban fighters repeatedly target government employees and university students in different districts of Ghazni province of Afghanistan.

News   >   World   >   Asia Muslim woman describes torture and beatings in China detention camp: ‘I begged them to kill me’ ‘Each time I was electrocuted, my whole body would shake violently and I would feel the pain in my veins,' says Mihrigul Tursun Harry Cockburn Wednesday 28 November 2018 17:39   Click to follow The Independent A  Uighur   Muslim  woman has said she was tortured and abused at an internment camp where the Chinese government is detaining hundreds of thousands of people from religious minorities. Mihrigul Tursun, 29, told reporters in Washington she was interrogated for four days in a row without sleep, had her hair shaved, was electrocuted and was subjected to an intrusive medical examination following her second arrest in  China in 2017. After she was arrested a third time, the treatment grew worse. “I thought that I would rather die than go through this...

A journalist was shot dead by unidentified armed men on Monday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a moving car in Peshawar’s Sarband. A cameraman was injured. The deceased has been identified as Noorul Hassan and the cameraman as Sabir. Hassan belonged to Nowshera. He was working as a reporter for a private news channel. The vehicle was coming from Hayatabad and the firing occurred at Achini Chowk on Ring Road, said Hayatabad ASP Najamal Husnain. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital, where Hassan succumbed to his wounds. Sabir is said to be in a critical condition. The suspects were driving a 125cc motorcycle and fired shots from a 9mm pistol. They have yet to be arrested. The police are reviewing the CCTV footage of the incident. KP IG took notice of the murder. Chief Capital Officer Qazi Jameelur Rehman has been ordered to oversee the investigation. KP Union of Journalists condemned the attack.  The KP government and security forces hav...

Nineteen people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a suspected terror attack at Manchester Arena. The blast happened at 22:35 BST on Monday following a pop concert by the US singer Ariana Grande. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said it was "a barbaric attack, deliberately targeting some of the most vulnerable in our society". A US official said suicide bombing is now considered to be the "likely" reason for the blast and a male at the scene in Manchester has been identified as the probable bomber. A US Department of Homeland Security statement said it was "closely monitoring" the situation and added that the department has "no information to indicate a 'specific credible threat involving music venues in the United States.'" The incident happened shortly after Grande had left the stage, according to eyewitnesses. Calvin Welsford, an 18-year-old concertgoer, said he heard a "loud bang" a couple of minutes after Gr...

US President Donald Trump called on Arab leaders to do their share to fight “Islamist extremism” on Sunday in a speech that put the burden on the region to combat militant groups while urging unity among religions. Trump, who generated controversy with his push to ban many Muslims from entering the United States, described the fight against terrorism as a battle between good and evil rather than a clash of civilisations. “This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it.” “That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires. And it means standing together against the murder of innocent Muslims, the oppression of women, the persecution of Jews, and the slaughter of Christians.” Trump's “America first” philosophy helped him win the 2016 election and has rattled allies who depend on US support for their defence. The president, who is st...

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