National Commission for Human Rights still non-functional after more than a year in Pakistan
Jun 03, 2020, at 03:57 pm
Islamabad: Despite torture inflicted on minorities being reported from different parts of the country every now and then, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) of Pakistan has been non-functional for more than a year now.
HRW, UN urge Nepal govt to investigate deadly attacks on Dalit
Jun 03, 2020, at 03:15 pm
New York/Kathmandu: Two recent incidents in which six people were killed show the Nepali government has systematically failed to confront entrenched caste – or descent – based discrimination against Dalits, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
Amid conflict over leadership, Mullah Yaqoob takes charge of Taliban
Jun 03, 2020, at 02:48 pm
Kabul: A top Afghanistan official has said Mullah Yaqoob, the son of Mullah Omar--founder of Afghan Taliban, has taken over as interim commander of the group.
Jun 03, 2020, at 02:39 pm
Kabul: Living under the constant threat of terrorists in cramped conditions since the March 25 massacre, Sikhs staying in Afghanistan are exposed to Covid-19, leaving them with no other option but to move to India for a safer future.
Kabul: Two killed in bomb attack inside mosque
Jun 03, 2020, at 12:59 pm
Kabul/UNI: At least two people have been killed and the same number of people injured after a planted bomb exploded inside a popular mosque in Kabul's fortified Green Zone.
Four-year-old girl injured, her mother killed as death squad members attack them in Balochistan
Jun 02, 2020, at 06:32 pm
Quetta: Even as the world continues to fight COVID-19 outbreak, it seems torture on people of Balochistan in Pakistan continues and in the latest episode the victim of the barbaric activity is a four-year-old girl, Bramsh.
Ahmadiyya community once again receives a blow in Pakistan
Jun 02, 2020, at 06:10 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan is continuously maintaining their discriminatory attitude towards Ahmadiyya community as they were once again not included in the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), media reports said.
Taliban Chief Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada may have died due to COVID-19: Report
Jun 02, 2020, at 04:41 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, Chief of Taliban group, may have died due to COVID-19 infection in Afghanistan, media reports said.
Nepal faces shortage of vital medical supplies over surging COVID-19 cases
Jun 02, 2020, at 04:37 pm
Kathmandu/UNI: Nepal's Department of Health Services said it does not have a single ventilator in store for the hospitals if critical COVID-19 cases surge amid rapidly increasing cases recently.
Pakistani legal expert warns about Diamer-Bhasha dam's impact on climate change
Jun 01, 2020, at 08:50 pm
Islamabad: A legal expert in Pakistan has opined that the construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam may have a severe impact on the climate change.
Afghanistan traders are demanding demand clearance of transit cargo at Karachi ports
Jun 01, 2020, at 07:49 pm
Islamabad: Afghanistan traders have said their transit cargo is lying at Karachi ports under severe demurrage and detention charges since the first week of March 2020 and they are now demanding a clearance of it.
Demanding safe return of overseas Pakistanis, Jamaat-e-Islami stages demonstration in Peshawar
Jun 01, 2020, at 07:38 pm
Peshawar/IBNS: Demanding the Pakistani government to bring back nationals stranded in foreign countries and announce package for them, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) staged demonstrations across Peshawar recently.
Jun 01, 2020, at 07:30 pm
Karachi: It seems that issue of inappropriate governance over COVID-19 handling is still predominant in Pakistan and in one such instances a mob barged into the isolation ward at Karachi's Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) last week and vandalised it.
Pastor, family members targeted in Pakistan
Jun 01, 2020, at 07:21 pm
Islamabad: A pastor and his family were beaten up and forced to leave the area in Pakistan's Rahim Yar Khan city recently, media reports said.
Kabul: Blast leaves three people wounded
Jun 01, 2020, at 05:19 pm
Kabul/IBNS: An explosion in Kabul city, which occurred close to a hospital, on Monday left at least three people wounded, media reports said.
Libya: Case filed over killing of 26 Bangladesh nationals
Jun 01, 2020, at 05:18 pm
Dhaka/UNI: A case has been filed with Bhairab Police Station in Kishoreganj of Bangladesh over the killings of its 26 nationals in Libya.
Unknown gunmen kill head of Kapisa Traffic Dept
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:24 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Unknown gunmen shot dead Sayed Munir, head of Kapisa's traffic department, in Afghanistan on MOnday, media reports said.
ISIS Khorasan claims repsonsibility for Kabul bombing that left one journalist killed
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:23 pm
Kabul/IBNS: The ISIS Khorasan, the offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has claimed responsibility for the bombing incident in Kabul which left two TV station employees dead, media reports said.
Coronavirus cases near 50,000 in Bangladesh, death toll 672
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:18 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh reported 2,381 new coronavirus cases on Monday, dipping from Sunday's high of 2,545.
nCov: 22 more die, 2381 fresh cases in Bangladesh
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:12 pm
Dhaka/UNI: The number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Bangladesh reached 49,534 on Monday with 2,381 new cases being detected in the last 24 hours.
May 31, 2020, at 07:56 pm
Glasgow: Glasgow-based human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has said Pakistan is using its non-state actors as its proxies in the Valley of Kashmir to stir disturbance.
Afghanistan: Kabul blast leaves journalist killed
May 31, 2020, at 06:26 pm
Kabul/IBNS: One journalist and a studio technician were killed as an IED hit a vehicle of Khurshid TV channel in PD4 of Kabul city on Saturday.
Baloch People's Congress condemns Pakistan's 1998 nuclear tests conducted in Chagai
May 30, 2020, at 10:26 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: The Baloch People's Congress on Saturday condemned the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan in Chagai district of Balochistan in 1998 that left people of the region suffer miserably from the repercussions.
US lawmaker introduces bill to recognise Tibet as separate and independent nation
May 30, 2020, at 09:26 pm
Washington: Putting pressure on China, US lawmaker Scott Perry has introduced a bill to recognise Tibet as a separate and independent nation.
Pakistani embassy in Zimbabwe in human trafficking row, sours relations
May 30, 2020, at 08:40 pm
Harare: Triggering a major row, a Pakistani diplomat in Zimbabwe has been alleged to be involved in human trafficking episodes.
Pakistan's state minister tested positive of COVID-19
May 30, 2020, at 06:00 pm
Islamabad/Xinhua/UNI: Pakistan's State Minister for States and Frontier Regions Shehryar Khan Afridi has been tested positive for the COVID-19, the minister confirmed in his twitter post on Saturday.
Afghanistan reports highest daily increase of COVID-19 cases, 14,525 in total
May 30, 2020, at 05:26 pm
Kabul/Xinhua/UNI: Afghanistan on Saturday reported 866 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours, the biggest daily increase since the outbreak of the pandemic in February, the country's Ministry of Public Health confirmed.
Bangladesh asks Libya to take action against killers 26 Bangladeshis
May 30, 2020, at 05:25 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh on Saturday asked Libya to take stringent punitive actions against perpetrators of the massacre of its nationals alongside compensation for the victims a day after alleged hostage takers killed 26 Bangladeshis and wounded 11 others.
Covid-19: Bangladesh records 28 new deaths
May 30, 2020, at 05:13 pm
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh saw a further rise in Coronavirus cases with the detection of 1764 fresh cases in the last 24 hours taking the tally to 44,608 in the .
More ‘can and must be done’ to eradicate caste-based discrimination in Nepal
May 30, 2020, at 09:18 am
New York/IBNS: Shocked over the killing last weekend of five men in Nepal, who had planned to escort home one of their girlfriends from a higher caste, the UN human rights chief on Friday stressed that ending caste-based discrimination is “fundamental” to the overall sustainable development vision of leaving no one behind.