Category: International

GENEVA: A United Nations rights expert on Monday slammed India’s years-long detention of a rights activist with disabilities as “inhumane”, citing grave concerns for his health and demanding his immediate release. Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, raised the alarm about the nearly decade-long detention of Gokarakonda Naga […]

Neither Government establish funds for providing free legal services to children nor made rehabilitation centers for them , said Sarmad Ali Director Legal Awareness Watch ( LAW), in a press briefing at local hotel. According to LAW, the provincial decision-making corners under the Act 2018 to establish funds for providing free legal services to children […]

NEW YORK: Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the border from Yemen into the oil-rich kingdom, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. The report comes as Saudi Arabia implements an anti-migrant policy at home and a campaign to boost […]

Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi has refused to sign into law two bills that would give authorities more power to prosecute people for acts against the state and military, a move the law ministry said was unconstitutional. The bills have already been passed by both houses of Pakistan’s parliament, but Alvi is a member of former […]

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least 11 laborers died and two injured in a bomb blast in Gulmir Kot, tehsil Shawal North Waziristan. As per details, the police spokesperson said that the bomb exploded in a van in North Waziristan which resulted in the death of 11 laborers while two others sustained injuries. Earlier last month, at […]

NEW DELHI: Indian police intervened to stop a meeting of prominent activists, academics and politicians discussing global issues ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations that will be hosted in New Delhi next month, the meeting’s organizers said Sunday. Nearly 400 participants had spent two days debating the G20 […]

Police in northeastern Bangladesh used batons and tear gas to disperse opposition activists amid a political dispute over who will oversee the next election. About 300 people were injured in the clash on Saturday evening, including some from live fire, the country’s leading Bengali-language newspaper Prothom Alo reported on Sunday. The United News of Bangladesh […]

Former secretary-general of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Asad Umar has been taken into custody by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The counter-terrorism wing of the FIA had registered the case against the former prime minister — who was ousted from office after a no-confidence motion in April last year — after ascertaining his deliberate involvement in misusing […]

Two Israelis have been shot dead south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank by a suspected Palestinian gunman. Israel’s ambulance service said a 60-year-old man and his 29-year-old son were shot in the Palestinian village of Huwara. Paramedics said the two people were targeted inside a carwash. “Both were unconscious and had sustained gunshot […]

ISLAMABAD: Former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was arrested by a heavy contingent of police from his residence in Islamabad on Saturday, sources said. The senior PTI leader was arrested following a press conference in which he announced moving the Supreme Court over the likely delay in general elections. […]