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The Supporters of President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, forcing Congress to evacuate as lawmakers counted electoral votes to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November election. The chaos erupted shortly after Mr. Trump gave a speech once again falsely claiming to have won a second term and vowing "we will never concede." The angry mob clashed with police, climbed walls, and broke windows and doors at the Capitol Building. Some breached the Senate Chamber as police officers drew their guns. The nation's capital is under curfew tonight as a result of the violence. Four people died at the Capitol, according to D.C. police. Troops from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. National Guard was deployed to help quell the violence...

India tops the list of Internet shutdowns in the world among a groups of 21 countries that curbed citizens’ web access in 2020, Hindustan Times reported. The report further said that China and North Korea was exempted from the report because researchers relied on publicly available open source information and have documented internet and social media shutdowns. India restricted Internet for 8,927 hours in the year 2020. Internet restrictions in Kashmir -- where the government in 2019 revoked the special autonomous status of the country’s only Muslim majority state - affected access for medicines, businesses, education and schools. The partial internet ban still remains in place in  of Jammu Kashmir with frequent closure of internet in view of encounters, which are almost an eve...

Irshad Hussain On the first martyrdom anniversary of Iran's top-notch General of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, founded after the Iranian Revolution on 22 April 1979 by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Shia Muslims in Kashmir staged a number of protest demonstrations and seminars on the first martyrdom anniversary of Iran's military general Qasim Soleimani, who was assassinated by American drone airstrikes last year on the Baghdad international airport on January 3rd, 2020. Today scores of Shia peaceful protesters poured out onto the streets in many Shia dominated areas and chanting anti-American and Anti Israel slogans "death to America, " "Down with Israel. " While carrying the banners of Iran's top military c...

Israel has carried out a total of 39 attacks on Syrian military sites in 2020, according to a UK-based war monitor. The strikes killed 217 Syrian soldiers and pro-Iran fighters, Xinhua news agency quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying in a report on Saturday. The latest Israeli attack took place on Wednesday when Israeli missiles targeted a military base in the Zabadani suburb west of Damascus, resulting in the death of one soldier, while three others were injured. The observatory said the targeted attack was aimed at pro-Iran weapon depots.

Alleged Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on militancy financing charges, an official said. Lakhvi, who was on bail in 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province, However, the CTD did not reveal the place of his arrest. “Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organization LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” it said. It further said that Lakhvi, 61, was arrested in a case of militancy financing registered in a police station of CTD Lahore. “Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing. He an...

The recently elected president of the United States of America has announced a digital strategy team on Monday. As per news reports, a Kashmir born woman, Aisha Shah has been entrusted a senior position in this digital strategy team of the American President, NDTV reported. Aisha has been named as a partnership manager in this team headed by Rob Faleherty, Director of Digital Strategy. Earlier, Aisha Shah, who is currently working as an advancement specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, has played the role of Digital Partnership Manager in Biden-Harris Campaign. NDTV report quoted Joe Biden, the president as having said, "This team of experts has a lot of experience in the field of digital strategy making and will help connect the White House with the American people in new...

Kabul started the first day of the week with four explosions that happened in less than three hours in various parts of the city, adding to the panic among the people who have been witnessing similar incidents nearly every day over the last few weeks.  Police and security sources said that at least two security force members were killed and six more were wounded in the blasts.  The first explosion happened at around 7:02 a.m. on Saturday morning in the Chaman-e-Hozoori area in Kabul’s PD8, leaving no casualties, according to police. The incident was a magnetic IED blast, police said.  The second explosion happened in the west of Kabul at around 7:05 a.m. in which a magnetic IED blast targeted a vehicle carrying a senior official from the VIP protection unit, police said....

Shoaib Akhtar's video has now emerged on social media demonstrating him speaking of Ghazwa e Hind and also mentioning that Muslims will capture the whole of India. Akhtar in this interview with a Pakistani news channel is heard saying, "it is also written about Ghazwa-e-Hind that Forces from Afghanistan will reach till Attock. Then after that forces will rise from Shamal Mashriq, different contingents will arrive from Uzbekistan, etc… This refers to Khorasan, a historical region that extended till Lahore. Later those forces will conquer Kashmir, and then, inshallah, they will march onwards (to the rest of Bharat)” Shamal Mashriq appears to be Urdu term for the geographical region which is just north of the Arabian peninsula. Ghazwa-e-Hind is an Islamic doctrine that is based on a ...

More than 100 people have been killed by gunmen after escalating tensions in Ethiopia's tiger area. Giving information about the carnage in the West Benishagul-Gumuz area of ​​Metekel Zone, the Human Rights Commission of Ethiopia has said that more than 100 people have died in this ethnic racial violence in western part of the country on Wednesday. In the wee hours of Wednesday, gunmen attacked the village of Bekoji in Bulle County and fired at people, Many people fled the village and saved their lives. People of different castes live here. When this attack was carried out, people were sleeping in their homes, as report by local Media outlets. They attack when happened a day after Prime Minister Ahmed Neptunian (Abiy Ahmed) had visited the area and promised to punish the perpet...

Pakistan’s military was on high alert in Kashmir on Monday as its prime minister warned India against carrying out any “false flag” operations in the disputed region after a UN vehicle in the Pakistan-held part came under attack. Pakistan blamed Friday’s attack on India, implying it was aimed at embarrassing Islamabad and harming relations with the international community. India has denied the allegations. The two UN observers in the vehicle escaped unharmed. “I am making absolutely clear to the (international) community that if India was to be reckless enough to conduct a false flag operation against Pakistan, it would confront a strong national Pakistani resolve & be given a befitting response at all levels of the threat. Make no mistake,” Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted on S...