Story 2 Migration: Stories of Sorrow, Shock, and Tragedy Habibullah used to make paintings in Afghanistan when the Taliban came. August 2021, a series of stories about Afghan journalists and human rights activists after the Taliban came to Afghanistan. Click on this YouTube link to view the report. Subscribe...
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February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Columns
A treacherous deal
TERROR has struck with renewed ferocity, reminding us yet again of the wages of appeasement. The suicide bombing that killed and wounded scores of worshippers inside a mosque in Peshawar raises questions about our flawed counterterrorism strategy. The bombing that occurred inside a high-security zone demonstrates the rising capacity of the militants to carry out high-profile...
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February 1, 2023February 1, 2023World
Blinken meets Abbas, presses for two-state solution
RAMALLAH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank on Tuesday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington’s backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict. Blinken is urging calm on both sides after last week’s killing by a Palestinian gunman of seven people outside...
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February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Pakistan
Parvez Elahi claims his residence in Gujrat raided by police
Former Punjab chief minister Parvez Elahi has claimed that his residence in Gujrat was raided by police in the early hours of Wednesday morning. “Police raided our house in Gujrat, the Zahoor Elahi Palace, at 4:30am today. They harassed our employees, including women, and then fled when a number of people gathered,” he said on Geo...
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January 31, 2023January 31, 2023World
World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next pandemic: Red Cross
GENEVA: All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three “brutal” years of the Covid-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are “severely lacking”, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said. The...
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January 31, 2023January 31, 2023Pakistan
Death toll from attack on mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines rises to 88
The death toll from the attack on a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines area a day earlier rose to 88 on Tuesday after more bodies were recovered from the attack site, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) confirmed. On Friday, 59 people, mostly police officials, were martyred and over 150 were injured after an explosion...
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January 31, 2023January 31, 2023Columns, MINORITIES
Misuse of blasphemy law “earning a bad name for Pakistan”
Tabita Gill is a Christian woman who worked as a nurse in a State-run hospital in the port city of Karachi. As per her daily routine, she was performing her duties in the hospital on January 28, 2021, when some people attacked her, slapping and kicking her. All this was filmed and the video...
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January 30, 2023January 30, 2023Pakistan
At least 30 martyred, over 90 injured in Peshawar mosque suicide blast
PESHAWAR: A powerful suicide blast inside a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines area on Monday martyred 30 people while more than 90 others were injured, said security and health officials. Imam Masjid Police Line Qari Sahibzada Nurul Amin was also martyred. According to security officials, the suicide attacker was in the front row during the...
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January 30, 2023January 30, 2023Columns
Dream party
Pakistan needs a dream political party to steer the country out of its current crisis. A party that has the vision and ability to introduce reforms, and the courage to challenge the forces of status quo. A party that is neither loaded with ideological baggage nor tied down by the establishment, and that derives its...
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January 30, 2023January 30, 2023Columns
A perfect global storm
Describing the ongoing global turmoil as a perfect storm, UN Secretary General António Guterres said in his speech at the World Economic Forum that cooperation was urgently needed in a fragmented world. This was also the theme of the annual Davos meeting earlier this month. The perfect storm, he maintained, was raging on several fronts,...