Category: International

As uncertainty looms over relations between Kabul and Islamabad, regional diplomatic efforts have intensified. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who was expected to lead a delegation to Islamabad to help ease tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, instead traveled to Tehran on Sunday (Sunday). In a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Fidan stated that […]

Nearly 9,300 children under the age of five in Gaza were diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition in October, UNICEF warned Saturday, calling the situation a life-threatening emergency worsened by the arrival of winter, according to Anadolu. In a statement, the agency said malnutrition levels remain “dangerously high,” with cold weather accelerating the spread of disease […]

The death toll in Gaza has climbed beyond 70,000, according to figures released Saturday by the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, marking one of the deadliest stretches of the conflict as a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire struggles to hold, according to NDTV. In its latest tally, the ministry reported 70,100 fatalities since the Israel–Hamas war […]

Finland is undertaking a significant overhaul of its diplomatic network, announcing plans to shutter its embassies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar by 2026 as part of a sweeping strategic realignment led by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The reform, described as one of the most extensive in recent years, comes amid a broader reassessment of […]

Pakistan’s Foreign Office said Thursday that its ceasefire understanding with Afghanistan has effectively broken down, citing a surge in cross-border terrorist attacks involving Afghan nationals and groups operating from Afghan soil, according to “The Nation News”. Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi told reporters in Islamabad that the arrangement was never a conventional ceasefire between two […]

New constitutional changes create a powerful Federal Constitution Court, sideline senior judges, and centralize authority raising fears of an emerging authoritarian legal order. Pakistan’s newly enacted 26th and 27th Constitutional Amendments have triggered a storm of concern at home and abroad, with jurists, lawyers, and rights advocates warning that the changes strike at the very […]

The United Nations is warning that Myanmar’s late-December elections, the first since the country’s 2021 military coup, risk cementing repression and fueling deeper instability across a nation already fractured by conflict, mass displacement, and political fear, according to APP. Speaking in Geneva, Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR), said voting set […]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Friday that Pakistan’s hastily adopted constitutional amendments seriously undermine judicial independence and raise grave concerns about military accountability and respect for the rule of law. In a statement issued in Geneva, the human rights chief said the latest constitutional amendment, like the 26th amendment last […]

In a dramatic shift late Thursday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced on social media that the United States will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” a sweeping move he says is needed to allow the American system to “fully recover, according to Al Jazeera News.” The declaration came in the immediate aftermath […]

A Tunisian appeals court on Friday issued sweeping prison sentences for 40 opposition leaders, business executives, and media figures, marking one of the country’s most consequential security prosecutions in years. According to the state news agency TAP, the defendants received jail terms ranging from five to 45 years after being convicted of conspiring against state […]