report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 9, 2023In the streets of the capital’s Agargaon area near Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation building, a daily spectacle unfolds each evening. A group of eight to nine teenagers, aged between 14 and 18, are seen racing around on bikes. Most of these teens are from lower-income families, with some still pursuing education while others have long abandoned their studies. Their high-speed biking antics, which sometimes include lifting the front wheel, coupled…
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edit in The Nation, Oct 03, 2023The capture and arrest of a gang involved in illicit kidney extraction and transplant procedures by the Lahore police is both commendable and probing. Over 300 illegal operations, 328 to be exact, are alarming. The fact that people desperate to save their loved ones find themselves at the mercy of such mafias and gangs is lamentable. It makes one question why the legal process of availing a kidney transplant…
By Shakeel Anjum in The News, August 20, 2023Islamabad : The statistics compiled by the Ministry of Interior, indicate that over one million illegal or undocumented Afghans are living in Pakistan. Most of the illegal Afghans are neither law neither abiding nor living quietly without creating difficulties for the government but creating unrest in the society by their involvement in criminal activities, a report said. “It is disturbing to mention that several armed Afghan migrants…