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Islamabad —  “I have a sword hanging over my head,” says journalist Asad Ali Toor. A vocal critic of Pakistan’s state institutions, Toor was arrested February 26 for, among other charges, running a malicious campaign against government officials. He has pleaded not guilty and is out on bail, awaiting ...

ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens' right to speech and expression.The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of ...

For years, Qari Wazir Mohammad and his six siblings received assistance from the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, or SCA, enabling all seven of them to read Braille and perform daily tasks such as cooking and cleaning. All born blind in a remote village of war-torn Ghazni province, the four ...

Pakistan's recent ban on the social media platform Twitter, now referred to as X, has stirred significant public discourse and legal scrutiny. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has been presented with a detailed justification from the Interior Ministry explaining the rationale behind this controversial measure. The ban came into ...

Pakistan’s new interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, has reportedly emphasized the need for improved laws to regulate internet free speech as the disruption of social media platform X continues into its fifth week. According to a report in news agency AFP. although Islamabad has not explicitly confirmed responsibility for nationwide ...

In a move that could lead to a ban on the social media app TikTok in the United States, the US House of Representatives passed a Bill on March 14. The Bill says that TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance must divest its stake from the app within six months, ...

New Delhi: The ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Friday extended the ban on separatist leader Yasin Malik’s Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF-Y) under the anti-terror law as it believes the organisation continues to propagate anti-India activities.     Kashmir 370 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email Print Related Source link

The US moved a step closer to banning TikTok after the House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday calling for the app’s Chinese developer ByteDance to divest from the company or be booted out of US app stores. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act passed ...

New Delhi, Mar 14: The Centre constituted the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal, comprising a Delhi High Court judge, to adjudicate whether or not there is sufficient cause for declaring the Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir (JeI) as an ‘unlawful association'.The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a notification in this ...

NEW DELHI, Mar 12: The Government is committed to uprooting terror forces to ensure the security of the people of the country, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday after the Jammu Kashmir National Front was banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.In a post on X, Shah said, ...