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A growing number of countries are coming forward to join BRICS and accept the new currency for global trade. The South African ambassador Anil Sooklal hinted that the alliance could expand this year becoming BRICS+. The move could add pressure on the U.S. dollar as developing nations would end their reliance on the greenback. The global financial order could tilt from the West to the East creating a new multipolar economy. According to the latest report, the BRICS alliance has formally received applications from 25 countries to join the bloc. The 25 nations that expressed their interest to join are...

Though Bangladesh's incumbent Awami League Government is taking strong action, Sheikh Hasina has a very serious challenge on her hands On the face of it, any talk of Islamist terrorism posing a threat to Bangladesh or the latter becoming a global staging ground for it appears absurd. Things have been improving since the savage terrorist strike at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on July 1, 2016, which left 20 persons (guests at the eatery), all five of the terrorists, two police officers and two members of the bakery’s staff, dead. According to South Asia Terrorist Portal’s Datasheet Bangladesh, from...

A Christian man has been sentenced to be hanged in Pakistan for receiving 'blasphemous' cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on his phone, reports say. Noman Masih, who according to different sources in either 19 or 22, was sentenced to death by the Court of Bahawalpur, in the Punjab province on May 30. He was arrested in 2019 for violating 295-c of the Penal Code, which punishes contempt shown towards the Prophet Mohammed.

President Trump in Miami tonight before tomorrow afternoon's appearance in federal court... The Crackdown In Pakistan Following Its January 6th On May 9th... In Canada a Supreme Court justice retiring amidst controversy over his behavior in Arizona earlier this year... Financial giant JP Morgan agreeing in principle to settle a class action suit from a victim of Jeffrey Epstein... In France's National Assembly a motion of censure against the government of President Emmanuel Macron failed... A leading secularist politician in Israel says he expects a deal on the "judicial reform" issue within days... Iran says there are indirect talks with...

Columnists In Urdu Dailies In Pakistan: Islamists' View Of Islam 'Is That All Threats To Islam Originate From Woman' – Audio of report here https://t.co/1NfsS9deoUpic.twitter.com/SHDMHJJxty— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) June 9, 2023

Social media shows the Taliban sending U.S. military vehicles captured from the former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces along with some ancient Soviet-era tanks to Afghanistan’s border with Iran following a recent skirmish about access to the Helmand River. On May 27, fighting broke out in Nimroz province in southern Afghanistan between the Taliban and Iranian border guards. At least three people were killed in the exchanges of fire. Should hostilities increase between the two sides, Taliban fighters will have thousands of vehicles at their disposal that were paid for by American taxpayers. Subscribe to Task & Purpose Today....

Explosions early Tuesday morning in Kiev, air raid warnings in the area of the capital city and... Two wounded tonight in Ukrainian shelling of the town of Shebinko in Russia's... The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling against two abortion laws in the state... In Washington the US House approving that deal to increase the US debt ceiling... US-Russian tensions in Syria US warplanes violating deconfliction protocol approaching Russian military planes. US pilots activating their weapons systems when getting close to Russian aircraft... The International Atomic Energy Agency will be allowed to reinstall monitoring equipment... Politics in the USA it's reported that...

Japan was the first country to break its silence after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Tokyo said of the Kuril Islands that it was “completely unacceptable that the Northern Territories have yet to be returned since the Soviet Union’s illegal occupation of them 77 years ago”. That annexation saw the expulsion of Japanese people from the southern islands, and since then, the countries have failed to reach a compromise. Talks broke down when Putin showed he was not willing to share lands but only to gain new ones. Then China started drawing maps marking part of Siberia and...

A Pakistan aircraft was seized at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia on Tuesday over non payment of dues, a report said.ADVERTIA Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 777 aircraft was seized by authorities in Malaysia over a lease dispute on Tuesday, a report said. The aircraft, acquired on lease from Malaysia, was seized at Kuala Lumpur International Airport over non-payment of dues worth $4 million, ARY News reported. The plane was seized following a court order.

The Taliban threatened on Sunday that it could conquer Iran as tensions increase over water disputes between Afghanistan and Iran, leaving at least three people dead. Senior Taliban commander Abdulhamid Khorasani, aka Nasser Badri, has in a video message warned that the group will fight against Iranians "with more passion" than they did against the US forces. "We will conquer Iran soon if Taliban's leaders give the green light for jihad."

In Pakistan the campaign by the army and the government to discredit and isolate opposition leader... Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin today... Tomorrow in Austin, Texas the State House of Representatives set to vote on the impeachment... The CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon deposed in the lawsuits over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein... The highest court in Guatemala tossing out the Presidential candidacy of populist Carlos Pineda... A military and political demonstration underway in Serbia... Hundreds protesting a crackdown on public protests in South Australia. The state government wants to...

A blank-check legislation signed into law in 2001 has allowed the Pentagon to launch more than 40 military interventions in at least 22 countries without congressional approval A new study from the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute estimates that over 4.5 million people have died from wars launched by the west in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks. The study estimates that between 906,000 to 937,000 people have been killed as a direct result of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia. These countries have experienced the most violent wars in...

Pakistan’s Army needs to take a large chunk of the blame for ruining the country’s economy. Last year, former Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa officially admitted that the military has been meddling in politics for decades. “In my opinion, the reason for this is the constant meddling by the army in politics for the last 70 years, which is unconstitutional,” he said, adding that the crumbling economic situation must be taken as a lesson and all stakeholders need to work together to safeguard the country’s interest. Last year in November General Asim Munir took charge as Pakistan’s new Army...

Will China come to the rescue of cash-starved Pakistan, which is inching closer to a default amid delay in revival of the $6.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)? China has not made any statements over the deepening political crisis in the South Asian nation but concerns have risen. “China’s stakes in Pakistan are high. It also needs Pakistan to contain India but the moot question is whether Beijing will be willing to completely bailout Pakistan. That is a matter of debate,” an analyst told India Narrative. Global ratings agency Moody’s has already warned that Pakistan may default...

Protests erupted across Pakistan after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested during a court appearance in Islamabad... The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, who travelled from Lahore to Islamabad, was arrested after the Rangers broke open the glass window and arrested him after beating lawyers and Khan's security staff. The arrest of the 70-year old PTI chairman comes a day after the powerful army accused him of levelling baseless allegations against a senior officer of the spy agency ISI. Top updates on Imran Khan's arrest: 1. At least one person was reported killed in clashes between protesters and the military...

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday by paramilitary troops who smashed their way into a courthouse in Islamabad to detain him on multiple corruption charges. The dramatic and sudden arrest former cricket star turned leader is the latest chapter in months of ongoing political turmoil in the nuclear armed nation after Khan was ousted last year. According to court documents seen CNN, Khan was arrested in Islamabad on charges brought by the National Accountability Bureau, the country’s anti-corruption agency. He was submitting his biometric data for a court appearance when paramilitary forces broke down a window...

Ukrainian Army is angry over Pakistan's supply of poor quality rockets to its troops currently battling Russian forces in Bakhmut city of Ukraine, BBC has reported. Pakistan, however, has yet again rejected the reports of supplying arms to Ukraine and claimed that it is neutral in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Watch the video for more details.

There is a "large presence" of Chinese vessels in the Indian Ocean Region and India keeps a "very close watch" on the developments in the region to protect and preserve its national interests in the maritime domain, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said on Saturday. During an interaction at a conclave, he also said that the Indian Navy is seized of the docking of various PLA Navy ships at ports in Pakistan, and it is "keeping a watch on it". Asked about the threat aspects, the Navy chief spoke of both conventional and non-conventional threats, besides those emerging from...

PARIS (AP) - 0923dv-france-bin-laden President Jacques Chirac said Saturday that information contained in a leaked intelligence document raising the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan last month is "in no way whatsoever confirmed." Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and has asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to probe how a document from a French foreign intelligence service was published in the French press. The regional newspaper l'Est Republicain on Saturday printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report...

Amritpal Singh, who has revived calls for the state of Punjab to secede, had been on the run since last month after capturing national attention in February. Indian police on Sunday arrested a separatist leader who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland and the secession of India’s northern Punjab state, which has a history of violent insurgency. Amritpal Singh had been on the run since last month after capturing national attention in February, when hundreds of his supporters stormed a police station in Ajnala, a town in Punjab state, with wooden batons, swords and guns to demand the...