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islamabad —  Pakistan's opposition party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan accused authorities of disrupting social media and internet services Saturday night to undermine its "virtual" election rally for the second time in two weeks. Independent monitors reported that internet users across the nation of about 241 million ...

Last week, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party could not use the party's cricket bat symbol on ballots, which essentially means thousands of PTI candidates will have to run as independents in upcoming polls as election symbols are essential to identifying ...

Nineteen-year-old Dewa — not her real name — had an admission letter to an undergraduate college program in the United States and a scholarship covering all her expenses. But the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, rejected her student visa application, saying they believed she was intending to immigrate. Following ...

Islamabad —  Afghanistan's Taliban Wednesday urged Pakistan to review its plans to expel Afghan immigrants, rejecting charges the displaced community is involved in the security problems facing the neighboring country.Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid released the statement a day after the Pakistani government ordered undocumented immigrants, including more than 1.7 ...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and KashmirRights groups and activists have urged the Indian government to launch an investigation into the death of a 5-month-old Rohingya girl in detention.Videos that went viral on the social media last week showed the Rohingya detainees, both men and women, at the Hiranagar jail in Jammu ...

Washington, DC – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kicked off a controversial visit to the United States by hosting a United Nations yoga event. Critics were quick to condemn the display, held on the front lawn of the United Nations in New York City on Wednesday. They said it ...

Islamabad, Pakistan —  Human rights groups and transgender activists are condemning a Pakistani religious court's decision to strike down key parts of a transgender rights bill almost five years after parliament passed it.Hailed as among the more progressive laws on transgender rights globally by the International Commission of Jurists, ...

islamabad —  The United Nations has renewed its call for Afghanistan's Taliban to immediately reopen schools to teenage girls, saying the de facto authorities have no justification for denying the right to education on any grounds, including religion or tradition. "The ongoing unlawful denial of girls and young women's ...

Srinagar:The Jammu and Kashmir administration has stripped the valley’s premier tertiary care health institute ‘Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS)’ of its autonomous status, triggering criticism from political parties. “The administration of SKIMS has been assigned to Health and Medical Education Department,” read a letter to the director of ...

#Pakistan News Condemnations kept coming in from Muslims, Christians and Jews in Türkiye and across the globe in a religious show of solidarity over the weekend over the burning of a copy of the Quran by a Swedish-Danish far-right politician in Stockholm. The leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard ...