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#Pakistan News The European Union, Norway and Switzerland received around 45,000 asylum applications in July, the highest number since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis. The preliminary figures were announced by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) on Thursday. In June, around 40,600 people applied for protection status. The ...

Pakistan on Thursday temporarily closed the Chaman border crossing – the second-largest commercial border point with Afghanistan – due to security threats, said the country’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, AP reported.“We will be closing the Chaman crossing for a while,” Ahmed said, but did not specify how long ...

#Pakistan News Following the Taliban's takeover of the rule in war-torn Afghanistan, European countries, as well as Turkey, have tightened measures against a new influx of irregular migrants. Traffic on this key migration route from central Asia to Europe has remained relatively stable compared to previous years. But the ...

Still reeling from a 2015 immigration crisis largely fueled by the wars in Syria and Libya, several European leaders have expressed fears of another massive influx of refugees – this time from Afghanistan – even as EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Saturday it was a "moral duty" to aid ...

- Intensified violence as foreign troops exit Afghanistan is displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians, worsening an ever-evolving humanitarian crisis.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Afghanistan’s deadliest battle has raised fears in Pakistan that thousands of families fleeing the turmoil will try to enter ...

Pakistan decided Sunday to temporarily suspend incoming pedestrian movement at overland border crossings with Afghanistan and Iran to “restrain import of any new mutation” of the coronavirus.  The restriction will take effect Tuesday night and remain in place until May 20, said the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), which ...

The London Health Sciences Centre is adding more critical care beds, preparing the Children’s Hospital to potentially admit adult patients, and reducing the number of scheduled surgeries as it prepares for an anticipated influx in demand for care due to the state of the COVID-19 pandemic across Ontario.LHSC ...

India on Monday rejected Pakistan’s criticism of the human rights situation in the country and called on Islamabad to do more to tackle issues such as the persecution of minorities, enforced disappearances and influx of outsiders in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Also read: Surgical Strike Day: How army soldiers destroyed terror launchpadsExercising ...

ISLAMABAD, PakistanPakistani experts have said the lives of millions of Indian Muslims are at stake amid rising Islamophobia and urged world powers to take notice to prevent another refugee influx from knocking their doors.Speaking at a seminar on Thursday in the capital Islamabad, Pakistan's Information Minister Shibli Faraz said ...

ISLAMABAD, PakistanPakistani experts have said the lives of millions of Indian Muslims are at stake amid rising Islamophobia and urged world powers to take notice to prevent another refugee influx from knocking their doors.Speaking at a seminar on Thursday in the capital Islamabad, Pakistan's Information Minister Shibli Faraz said ...