Category: International

KABUL: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the ruling Taliban on Sunday to reopen girls’ high schools and applauded female students in the eastern province of Paktia who residents said have been publicly protesting against the measure. “The voice of Paktia’s female students is the voice of all our girls and of Afghanistan,” said […]

GENEVA — China’s mass incarceration of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities is not on the U.N. Human Rights Council’s packed agenda for its session starting Monday. However, the controversial policy threatens to overshadow all the other issues to be examined during the council’s monthlong session. Human rights activists are clamoring for China to be held […]

At least 11 people are thought to have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, with 12 others still missing. Tunisia’s coastguard rescued 14 people after the boat, which was carrying 37 migrants to Italy, sank on Tuesday Five more bodies were recovered on Saturday night, the state news agency TAP says, bringing […]

JAKARTA: About 200 people evacuated to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck islands in western Indonesia on Sunday, causing some property damage, the country’s disaster mitigation agency BNPB said. The quake in the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra struck at a depth of 27 km (17 miles) and was followed by one […]

KABUL: Dozens of girls protested in an eastern Afghan city on Saturday after Taliban authorities shut their secondary schools just days after classes resumed, an activist and residents said. Last week, five government secondary schools in the eastern province of Paktia restarted classes after hundreds of girls and tribal leaders demanded they reopen. But when […]

Islamabad: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) can change the economic dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region, especially Pakistan as the group is ostensibly created to encourage regional economies to “decouple” from the Chinese market by providing them alternative supply chains. Advocate Muhammad Hamza Qamar, writing in Daily Parliament Times, said that Washington believes it will help […]

SUKKUR: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said developing nations were paying a “horrific price” for the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, as he toured parts of Pakistan hit by floods blamed on climate change. Nearly 1,400 people have died in flooding that covers a third of the country – an area the size of the […]

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kong speech therapists were sentenced on Saturday to 19 months in jail for conspiracy to publish seditious children’s books, featuring cartoons of sheep and wolves that prosecutors had deemed anti-government. The five were convicted on Wednesday under a colonial-era sedition law in a case denounced by rights campaigners as a “brazen […]

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) provided the federal government with two months for taking to ensure that missing persons are recovered, a private TV channel reported. “No official has done their job […] we will hold everyone responsible if another missing persons case is filed in this court,” IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah said while […]

India’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release on bail of Siddique Kappan, a journalist who has been in jail for more than 23 months for seeking to meet the family of a Dalit girl allegedly gang-raped by upper-caste Hindu men in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. After the 19-year-old victim was set ablaze […]