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Pakistanis among 40 nations facing backlash for reporting rights abuses

by Amin Ahmed in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the 40 countries across the world where over 220 individuals and 25 organisations faced threats and retaliation from the state and non-state actors for cooperating with the United Nations on human rights, reveals a new report of the UN Secretary-General. The report titled, ‘Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights’ covering the period from May 1,…

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has provided an in-depth account of its ruling regarding an appeal filed by the Punjab caretaker government against a prior LHC directive that prohibited authorities from arresting former Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi in undisclosed cases. On August 21, a division bench of the LHC, presided over by Justice Muhammad Waheed Khan, dismissed the Punjab government’s intra-court appeal. The authorities had submitted the appeal in response to a single-judge…

UN Security Council Holds Meeting on Terrorist Threats

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNwewsm Aug 25m 2023 at 6.47 pm,The UN Security Council said in a statement that it will convene a briefing on the Secretary-General’s 17th biannual strategic-level report on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Daesh. According to the statement, the Daesh groups in Iraq and Afghanistan have been assessed by member states as the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan and the region. “The report…

Hike in organised crime due to Afghan gangs feared

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…

11 militants killed, 35 held in Peshawar since February

report in Dawn, July 10th, 2023PESHAWAR: Eleven militants were killed and 35 others arrested along with 477 facilitators during the 40 intelligence-based operations carried out by the police since February 15, according to a report prepared by the Peshawar Intelligence and Response Cell (PIRC). The report, a copy of which is available with Dawn, also said that five networks of extortionists and 23 networks of hundi-hawala were also busted during the operations. It stated that…

Over 1,000 Afghan civilians killed in blasts, violence since August 2021: UN

report in The News, June 28, 2023KABUL: Over a thousand Afghan civilians were killed in bombings and other violence since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021, according to a report by the UN’s mission to Afghanistan released on Tuesday. Between August 15 2021 and May this year 1,095 civilians were killed and 2,679 wounded, according to the UN Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA), underscoring the security challenges even after the end of…

Police to continue refugee scam probe:

By Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, May 26, 2023Police on Thursday said their investigation into the high-profile Bhutanese refugee scam continues even after the District Attorney Office Kathmandu prosecuted 30 persons including former ministers and top officials at the District Court, Kathmandu on Wednesday. The prosecutions were based on a police investigation report the attorney’s office received on Monday. “Our investigation is not over,” Kathmandu Police Range Chief Senior Superintendent of Police Dan Bahadur…

Afghan FM likely to visit Pakistan next month

By Farooq Aqdas in The News, April 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi is expected to visit Islamabad in the first week of next month, local media reported. Sources said that Islamabad and Kabul are currently in contact with each other to finalise the date for the visit of the Taliban chief diplomat. Muttaqi will lead an Afghan delegation and is also expected to meet Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Border…

Pakistan tops list of nations at risk of mass killings: Report

report in Times of India online, Dec 1, 2022 at 05.10 PM ISTNEW DELHI: Pakistan has topped the list of countries at the highest risk of experiencing new mass killings, according to a new report. The report cites violence by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as one of the main challenges for the nation already facing political and economic crises.It said that Pakistan is estimated to have about a one in six chance of experiencing a new…