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islamabad —  Pakistan confirmed Tuesday that an Iranian cross-border attack had killed two "innocent children" in its southwestern Baluchistan province and warned Iran of "serious consequences." The statement came just hours after Iran said it struck strongholds of a Sunni armed group, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), allegedly sheltering ...

ISLAMABAD —  The United Nations said Thursday it was deeply concerned about recent arrests and detentions of women and girls by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities for alleged non-compliance with Islamic dress code. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) warned in a statement that the crackdown is "pushing women into ...

Islamabad —  The United Nations has urged Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to bring to justice the perpetrators of an overnight deadly minibus bombing in Kabul that targeted members of the minority Hazara-Shiite community. Saturday's attack in the western Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of the Afghan capital killed at least five passengers and ...

ANKARAChina on Wednesday said the number of Chinese journalists stationed in neighboring India is about to "drop to zero," as New Delhi still has not renewed the visa of the last Chinese journalist in the country."Chinese journalists have suffered unfair and discriminatory treatment in India for a long time, ...

The UN Human Rights Council denounced Tuesday the rising numbers of executions in Iran, including of people who received the capital punishment in connection with protests that have rocked the country. The top United Nations rights body approved a resolution voicing “deep concern at the reported surge in the ...

ISLAMABAD —  A U.S. government agency Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking it from fully assessing about $1.1 billion in U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021.The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in its quarterly report that Washington ...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. (Photo/fmprc.gov.cn) A Foreign Ministry spokesman criticized a handful of Western countries on Tuesday for practicing double standards and political maneuvers on human rights issues, saying it is crystal clear to the international community that these countries attempt to use human rights issues to interfere ...

Like many nations in the Global South facing the wrath of climate change, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif noted Pakistan had little responsibility for it.Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appealed for global support to face the consequences of the climate catastrophe that ravaged his South Asian nation. The flood-induced ...

Islamabad —  The United Nations Sunday renewed its call for Afghanistan’s Taliban to urgently reopen schools to teenage girls, denouncing the anniversary of their exclusion from education as “tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable.”Since taking control of the conflict-torn country in August of last year, the Islamist group has instructed ...

Islamabad —  A new United Nations report said Wednesday that the erosion of women’s rights in Afghanistan had been one of the most notable aspects of the Taliban takeover of the country last August.The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, released the report at a news conference in ...