Lahore 14 June 2017 (Daily Dawn) Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif will be appearing at 1100 AM (Pakistan local time) before a Joint Investigating Team probing family investments outside & inside Pakistan as per reported in Panamaleaks. It is to note that Pakistani Prime Minister name is not included in the Panamaleak, however, his...

Bacolod City, Philippines 14 June 2017 (0559 PM) (PNA/USATODAY) The undersecretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippines met with leaders of the Muslim community in this city to discuss cooperation to ensure protection of Bacolod from terror threats. Undersecretary for Public Safety Jesus Hinlo Jr., in a report Wednesday following...

14 June 2017 Fox News U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and his aides have been shot at baseball practice in Virginia, Fox News confirms. It is understood about 50-100 shots were fired in the incident. Scalise's security detail also shot, CNN reported. The extent of Scalise's injuries are unknown but it is understood at...

Cardiff, UK 14 June 2017 (BBC Sport) England's Champions Trophy hopes were ended by an eight-wicket semi-final thrashing at the hands of Pakistan in Cardiff. England struggled on a slow pitch against some brilliant Pakistan bowling and fielding, mustering only 211. Fakhar Zaman's 57 launched Pakistan's chase, while Azhar Ali made 76 as victory was...

London 14 June 2017 (CNN/BBC/Reuters) London's Metropolitan Police have confirmed six deaths following a huge blaze that's engulfed a residential apartment block in West London. A huge fire has broken out at a block of flats at Lancaster West Estate, in the Latimer Road area of West London, police and firefighters have said according to...

14 June 2017 (AlJazeera News) A prominent human rights lawyer in Bahrain has been arrested after launching a lawsuit against the government over its restrictions imposed on neighbouring Qatar. Issa Faraj Arhama al-Burshaid was detained after challenging Manama's sanctions, which include blocking Qataris from staying in the country along with other economic penalties. He filed...

Islamabad 13 June 2017 (APP) Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has expressed the hope that the current impasse in the Gulf would be resolved soon in the best interest of the Muslim Ummah. This was stated in a press release issued by the Prime Minister House at the end of his day-long visit to Saudi...

London 12 June 2017 Amnesty International once again said that recent humanitarian measures by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain are vague and insufficient and do not address the human rights situation. This came during a meeting between His Dr. Ali Bin Samikh Al Marri, Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee of the State...

Doha 12 June 2017 (AlJazeera News) Qatar can easily defend its economy and currency against sanctions by other Arab states, Qatari finance minister Ali Sherif al-Emadi told CNBC television in an interview broadcast on Monday. He said that the countries which had imposed sanctions on Qatar would also lose money because of the damage to...

Doha AlJazeera News 12 June 2017 Iraq's prime minister has rejected Saudi and UAE media claims that a $500m ransom was paid by Qatar to Shia Muslim armed groups in Iraq to secure the release of 26 kidnapped Qatari hunters, saying that the money was received by the Iraqi government and that the sum was...