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BENGALURU — How do you sit in a classroom with people who shouted slogans against your right to wear a hijab?That's the question troubling Saima, whose name has been changed on request. Last week, the 20-year-old was one of several hijab-clad Muslim women who watched anxiously as hundreds of ...

LONDON — Pollution of the world's rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a "threat to environmental and global health", a report says.Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected in a University of York study.The research is among the most extensive undertaken on a global ...

LAHORE — A mob has killed a man for allegedly burning pages of the Koran in central Pakistan, police say, in the latest case of blasphemy-related violence in the country.Police say more than 80 people have been arrested in connection with the killing on Saturday in the district of ...

JEDDAH — In line with the national policy to observe Kashmir Solidarity Day throughout the world, a seminar-cum-exhibition was organized to express solidarity with Kashmiri brethren on Feb. 5 at the Consulate General of Pakistan in Jeddah.The event started with recitation from the Holy Qur’an followed by reading out ...

PESHAWAR — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Christian priest and wounded another as the clerics drove home from church in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, police said.Two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on the car on the city's ring-road, killing Pastor William Siraj instantly, officers ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's first female Supreme Court judge has been sworn in in the capital Islamabad.Ayesha Malik, 55, now sits on a bench with 16 male colleagues in the Muslim-majority country's top court.Some lawyers and judges opposed Justice Malik's appointment as she was seen to be less senior than ...

ISLAMABAD — A tourist trapped in her car for hours by unprecedented snowfall in Pakistan has described how she "saw death" in front of her as she waited for help, BBC reported.Samina was in one of the thousands who rushed to view the winter snowfall in the hilltop town ...

ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s economy is in “free fall”, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told a special meeting on Sunday, warning that if decisive and compassionate action is not taken immediately, it may “pull the entire population with it”.Speaking virtually to the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic ...

JAKARTA — Reprisals against human rights defenders were in the spotlight on Wednesday as UN independent experts documented instances of abuse in Indonesia and Pakistan. Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor said Indonesia must immediately stop threatening and intimidating human rights defender Veronica Koman and her family.Living in self-imposed exile in Australia, ...

SRINAGAR — Two policemen were killed and 14 injured after suspected militants attacked a bus carrying security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, BBC reported quoting police officials.Officials said three militants fired indiscriminately on the vehicle near a police camp in Srinagar city.Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences, and has ...