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UN asks Taliban to revoke policies against women

AFP in Dawn, December 28th, 2022GENEVA: The Taliban must immediately revoke their policies targeting women and girls in Afghanistan, the UN rights chief insisted on Tuesday, condemning their ‘terrible’ consequences. “No country can develop — indeed survive — socially and economically with half its population excluded,” Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement. “These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of…

Hefajat rearing its head again

Report in The Daily Star, Dec 16, 2022After a long hiatus, Hefajat-e Islam, the Qawmi madrasa-based organisation is becoming active to strengthen the organisation once again and press home its 13-point demand, including scrapping “anti-Islam” women and education policies. The outfit is going to organise a conference tomorrow in Dhaka. As the tenure of current government is nearing an end, Hefajat has apparently taken a move to strengthen the organisation and put pressure on the…

Economic Hat: edit in Daily Times, Dec 2, 2022

Daronomics, a unique brand of macroeconomic policies associated widely with finance minister Ishaq Dar is just as quickly losing its oomph as it had made a comeback. The former finance minister flew back to Pakistan last month after a long exile following his disqualification from office five years ago. However, the determination to bring relief to the masses and claims of having what it needed to keep the dollar in check have now been replaced…