By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 10, 2023The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called upon the authorities in Afghanistan on the occasion of “World Human Rights Day” to embrace human rights commitments as the cornerstone of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous future, and to lend their full support to it. On Saturday, UNAMA reiterated its commitment to the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan by issuing a statement on…
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Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 08, 2023 at 8:43 PMAt the end of the 1402 solar school year, a number of sixth grade girls have expressed concern about not being able to go to school next year. They asked the caretaker government not to prevent girls from going to school in the next academic year. More than two years have passed, and there is still no news about the reopening of school for girls above…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Dec 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sent a clear message to the Afghan Taliban government that any future attacks having links to the neighbouring country would evoke a strong response, sources familiar with the development have said. Sources said the warning was conveyed through diplomatic channels after the recent attack in Bannu carried out by an Afghan national. This was the 16th suicide attack carried out by a national…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 22, 2023 at 8:46 PMSeveral female students above sixth grade voiced concerns about their future as the final exams of school began in the country. Some of the students said they are worried that they won’t be allowed to study and participate in exams next year. 12-year-old Zahra, who is in the 6th grade, is preparing for tomorrow’s exam. She said she is afraid that won’t be allowed to continue…
by Muhakmuddin in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2023.CHITRAL: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday repeated his call on the “traditional old guard politicians” to step back, emphasising that the country’s youth deserved a chance to shape their future without anyone else’s political baggage. Addressing a public rally in Chitral, Bilawal dialled up his rhetoric against his party’s former partners in the previous coalition government, accusing the Shehbaz Sharif-led dispensation of…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, November 19th, 2023WASHINGTON: Eleven members of the US Congress, in a letter to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, have urged the Biden administration to withhold future US assistance to Pakistan, until the country restores constitutional order and holds free and fair elections. The lawmakers requested a legal determination from the Department of State under the Leahy Laws and Section 502(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act to assess if US-origin…
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shah Meer Baloch in The Guardian, Oct 27, 2023The scenes were eerily similar: Nawaz Sharif, standing in front of tens of thousands of supporters in his home town of Lahore, making a pitch to become Pakistan’s leader. But this was not 1990, nor 1997 nor 2013 – the three previous occasions that Sharif was elected prime minister. Instead, it was an event held over the weekend to mark his return from…
by Resty Woro Yuniar in SCMP, Oct 4, 2023The construction of a Chinese-backed economic zone on an Indonesian island off Batam is tantamount to “cultural genocide”, according to advocates who are concerned about the future of indigenous villagers facing eviction. Authorities have been seeking to reach a deal with some 7,500 villagers living on Indonesia’s Rempang Island – about 40km south of Singapore – to get them to move out of homes they have lived…
by Zahra Nader and Zan Times reporters in The Guardian, Aug 28, 2023 at 10.00 BSTFirst, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away. “I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in…
report in Daily Mirror online, Aug 9, 2023The implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution should be done in a way that suits the nation’s growth and future, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. Addressing parliament, he said achieving this requires a consensus among all parliament members through comprehensive and open-minded deliberations. President Wickremesinghe highlighted that the 13th Amendment, which oversees the decentralization of power to provincial councils, holds the utmost legal significance in the…
report in Ceylon Today -March 11, 2023In the midst of daily protests by university undergraduates escalating, the Government has decided against offering State sector jobs in future to those who engage in anti-Government protests and riots. A top Government official said the Government has taken steps to identify and maintain records of those, especially undergraduates, who are engaged in ‘unnecessary’ anti-Government protests. “A database will be maintained and when these people apply for Government jobs,…