by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, February 6th, 2023QUETTA: Seven people were injured in two terrorist attacks, one of them said to be a suicide bombing, on Sunday. The first incident took place near the Police Lines on Gulistan Road and the other on Mano Jan Road. Five people, including an office-bearer of the Civil Secretariat Staff Association, suffered injuries in the first attack. According to police officials, the blast occurred near a bridge. There was…
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report in Daily Times, Jan 26, 2023Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram has called for exploring a new strategy of engaging and persuading the Taliban to heed the international community’s concerns over political and human rights in Afghanistan so as to continue the global support for its suffering people. “The strategy that has been followed so far of leveraging international assistance in order to pressurize the Taliban to do what the international community wants,…
By Murtaza Solangi in The News, Jan 19, 2023The writer is a journalist.We are in election year again. Ten years back around this time we were in election mode when the terrorism unleashed by the TTP impacted the electioneering and deprived the Awami National Party and Pakistan Peoples Party, two mainstream secular parties from electioneering, especially in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to government reports at that time, 437 people were killed in over…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, January 11, 2023The recent gender-based decrees issued by the Supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan restricting women from working for NGOs and getting university and higher education, culminated the tensions among the Afghan people. The implementation of the ban completely erased Afghan women and girls from society, which prompted severe condemnations from the international community and the people of Afghanistan. Although some foreign governments, aid organizations, and…
by Dilawar Wazir in Dawn, January 7th, 2023WANA: Thousands of people took to the streets in South Waziristan on Friday against the recent wave of terrorism in the region. The protesters called upon the government to immediately take steps and restore peace in the region. The tribesmen held the protest against a surge in terrorist activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in general and Waziristan in particular. People from all walks of life, including political workers, social…