ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Saturday said that the Saudi leadership and Muslim Ummah stood on same page over the issue of Palestine. He, in a video message, brushing aside the propaganda of making compromise on the Palestine issue during the meeting of Saudi […]
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China expresses concern over escalating Palestine-Israel tension
BEIJING: China on Monday expressed concern over the escalating tension between Palestinians and Israeli police at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. China has been following closely with concern the escalating tension between Palestine and Israel in Jerusalem, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Wang Wenbin said during his regular briefing here. He said that the issue of […]
APHC hopes OIC moot to become voice of Kashmir, Palestine
ISLAMABAD: Welcoming the foreign ministers and dignitaries attending the 48th session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers here, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders, Ms Zamaruda Habib and Shamim Shawl Monday expressed the hope that the moot would become voice of the suffering people of Kashmir and Palestine. In […]
APHC hopes OIC moot to become voice of Kashmir, Palestine
ISLAMABAD: Welcoming the foreign ministers and dignitaries attending the 48th session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders, Ms Zamaruda Habib and Shamim Shawl Monday expressed the hope that the moot would become a voice of the suffering people of Kashmir and Palestine. In a […]
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank
Palestinian Territories: Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in separate shootings in the occupied West Bank Tuesday. A 16-year-old killed by Israeli forces’ firing during an arrest raid outside the northern city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry and Israeli security forces said. Separately, a Palestinian in his twenties was killed in Qalandiya outside Jerusalem, the […]
Israeli air assault on Gaza continues
On Monday night, Israel once again launched airstrikes against Gaza, asserting that inflammatory balloons from the Palestinian enclave caused fires. Israel as usual put blame on Hamas for the balloons, the Israeli army said it had targeted positions appertain to the group that controls the Gaza Strip. “Overnight, IDF fighter jets struck a Hamas rocket […]
Beyond Evil
The worst form of colonialism is settler colonialism, unless it occurs on empty and unclaimed land. But then it would not be colonialism. Settler colonialism requires other weaker people to be contacted, deceived, infiltrated, invaded, conquered, displaced, controlled, discriminated against, hated, and “non people.” Histories and narratives need to be constructed or warped in order […]
Understanding Palestine-Israel crisis
It may come as shocking for some people to know that the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis goes back only a century. The Palestine-Israel crisis is haunting the world. Going back in history, this region, near the Mediterranean, was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire for many decades. It was and still is religiously […]
Palestine FM criticizes India’s abstention at UN vote
The Palestinian FM criticized India’s abstention at UN vote. Following India’s abstention at the UN Human Rights Council on a resolution proposing to set up commission for the inquiry of human rights violations done during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, the Palestinian foreign minister has complained that New Delhi’s abstention “stifles the important work of… advancing […]
ECO Executive Council elects NA speaker as chairperson; approves rules for PAECO
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Economic Cooperation Organization (PAECO) has unanimously condemned gross human rights violations being committed by Indian forces in occupied territories of the Jammu Kashmir State. In its landmark outcome document, they urged to include the draft of the Islamabad Declaration to be adopted on the conclusion […]