Tag: life

Khanyi NgcoboBBC News, JohannesburgAFPThe execution-style killing of an openly gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks, in South Africa has left people in the LGBTQ+ community fearful for their safety - but also determined to forge ahead with the campaign to end their marginalisation in religious circles. Reverend Toni Kruger-Ayebazibwe, an openly ...

RAWALPINDI — A couple in north-east Pakistan have been detained for allegedly murdering a 13-year-old girl who worked for them as a maid, for allegedly stealing chocolates.The girl who goes only by one name, Iqra, succumbed to multiple injuries at the hospital last Wednesday. A preliminary police investigation said ...

BANGKOK — More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian nations, were received by ...

Whenever I read Ruth Padel’s work, it strikes me: the profusion of species. Her latest collection of poetry, Girl, organised in three parts, is no exception. If the whole book could be a single picture, I imagine it would be the silhouette of a girl-woman within whose outline, every ...

ISLAMABAD — Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony.The girl had seen police approach her father in the street outside their safe house in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and ran to confront ...

LONDON — Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced.Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismailis, a Shia Muslim faction.He "passed away peacefully" in Lisbon, Portugal, surrounded by his ...

• Pays tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his Punya Tithi• Honours family members of Army bravehearts; • Felicitates youth, prominent citizens with Gandhi Doot Samman Jammu, Jan 30: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today paid solemn tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, on his Punya Tithi. The ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — The Pakistan army announced Saturday that it killed at least 30 suspected militants during a series of security operations in the northwest region.The operations, conducted in the Karak, Lakki Marwat, and Khyber districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, also left six militants injured, according to an official ...

PARIS — A man has been jailed for 30 years for attempting to murder two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020.Zaheer Mahmood, 29, from Pakistan, attacked and badly wounded two employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency, days after Charlie ...

ISLAMABAD — "It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. He worries he can't help ...