According to British Police, hate crimes against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim in the United Kingdom are up by 140 percent compared with this time last year. The United Kingdom anti-Islamophobia organization Tell MAMA has received a sevenfold increase in reports of Islamophobia since October 7. (Aljazeera.com)
Indian police say they have arrested 74 Rohingya refugees for living “illegally” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Those arrested included 55 men, 14 women, and five children and at least one of the arrested women is pregnant. (Aljazeera.com)
According to the UN Human Development Reports, 64 percent of the population of Pakistan (some 148.1 million out of 241.4 million) is less than 30 years old, and 29 percent of Pakistanis are aged between 15 to 29. According to World Economics, Pakistan’s median age is 20.2 years against a global median of 30.3 years.
Two Pakistani brothers were released from the Guantánamo Bay military prison Thursday after two decades in custody with no charges, the Department of Defense announced. The brothers were transferred to US custody after Pakistani officials arrested them in their home city of Karachi in 2002. After about a year and a half in CIA custody, […]
India has banned a BBC Documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in 2002 riots in Gujarat State. The documentary highlighted a report that found Modi directly responsible for the “climate of Impunity” enabling the violence. In a statement that BBC released following India’s orders to ban the film, it said the documentary was “rigorously […]
Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said at a weekly press briefing, in response to a question on the clashes between the security forces of Pakistan and Afghanistan in Chaman-Spin Boldak area, “We have agreed to continue established institutional mechanism with Afghanistan to prevent such incidents,”. (Daily Times)
The Pakistan government has picked former intelligence agency chief Asim Munir as its new head of the army, a post that has significantly dictated the governance of the South Asian, nuclear-armed country in the past. (The Source)
GENEVA (22 September 2022) – UN experts today strongly condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after her arrest for allegedly failing to comply with Iran’s strict rules on women’s dress by wearing an “improper hijab”. (Source: ohchr.org)
The worst kept secret about the present economic crisis is that it has resulted from our rulers having saddled the people with a huge debt while harvesting its proceeds to acquire properties, businesses, and citizenships abroad. (brecorder)
Pakistan Day was celebrated on Wednesday 23rd March. The armed forces displayed their might in the annual military parade in Islamabad while dignitaries participating in the 48th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) watched as guests of honour. (Dawn)
A harrowing report of over 36 child deaths in district Tharparkar, caused by various diseases in the first month of 2022, has opened a can of worms for the provincial government. (Tribune Pakistan) Comment: According to the record of the Tharparkar Health Department, over 600 newborn babies died in the preceding year, 2021. These deaths […]
“The OIC extraordinary session on Afghanistan is a prime example of our collective determination and action to help those most in need. We thank Pakistan for hosting this vital meeting and inviting the global community to continue cooperating to support the Afghan people,” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said. (Dawn)
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has initiated work on the technical aspects of e-voting after the country’s parliament passed the electronic voting and voting right for Pakistanis living abroad in the next general elections in 2023. The first committee will examine the technical aspects, the second financial cost of the process, and the third […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday said if food crops production did not increase and the population explosion continued, the country might face famine and poverty in the years to come. Expressing his concerns about the fast growing population in Pakistan, which had gone from less than 40 million in 1947 to around […]
Residents took out a rally in Swat on Tuesday to protest the brutal killing of 14 people that included women and children, belonging to Khwazakhela tehsil in Karachi on Aug 14. The incident took place when unidentified persons attacked a minibus with a grenade. The vehicle was carrying about 20 members of a family, who […]
As the world increasingly speaks out against China’s genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, the quietest voices continue to belong to the leaders of Muslim-majority countries. [Pakistani PM Imran] Khan said, “This is not the case, according to them,” adding that any disagreements between Pakistan and China are hashed out privately. (vox)
Controversy erupted after Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi told CNN anchor Bianna Golodryga that ‘Israel’ is losing “the media war, despite their connections.” The anchor swiftly asked the Pakistani leader to explain those “connections.” The Foreign Ministry dismissed the assertions in a statement on Friday, saying the remarks could not be “construed as […]
On 23rd March 2021 Pakistan celebrated 81 years of the resolution passed for the creation of Pakistan. Message from President Dr. Arif Alvi for Pakistan Day. “On this Pakistan Day, we pay homage to the founding fathers of Pakistan whose services and sacrifices led to the creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of […]
It appears that the Pakistani Government is bent upon throwing the education sector of this country into a mire of uncertainty. The Punjab Text Book Board has introduced a new No-Objection Certificate (NOC) criterion for hundreds of private publishers who have been printing and publishing learning and teaching materials for the schools of Punjab. (The […]
