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Muslims around the world have celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, with prayer, reunions with family and friends, new clothes and sweet treats. But the celebrations on Wednesday were overshadowed by the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s ...

Indian-administered Kashmir – Muhammad Shafi was working in his apple orchard in October last year, in Indian-administered Kashmir, when a group of men rushed in and started measuring his land without asking for his approval. When he asked the men who they were and what were they doing on ...

Some 300 million people around the world are starting their annual celebration of renewal and harmony with nature in what is to them the biggest cultural holiday of the year, typically involving 13 days of rituals.Nowruz (alternatively spelled Nauruz, Nauryz, Navruz, Nevruz, Nooruz, Norooz, Norouz, or Novruz), also known ...

As the old adage has it, an institution is only as good as the people who work within it. So while we plough ever more billions of pounds into the ailing NHS, why are our politicians doing so little to remedy its acute and growing staffing crisis?Figures released last ...

ISLAMABAD — Violence marred several of Pakistan’s polling stations on Thursday, as millions voted in an election in which old dynasties vied for power while the country’s widely popular former leader languishes behind bars.Polling stations across the country were beginning the count after polls closed on Thursday evening, according ...

Lahore, Pakistan – Four months after Pakistan was originally scheduled to hold national elections, the country’s 128 million voters will on Thursday get the chance to pick their next federal government amid a pre-poll crackdown on former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party and a climate of political and economic instability. ...

ISLAMABAD — Daily-wage laborer Asif Maseeh wakes up each day wondering how he will feed his family of seven."We just pray to God that we'll find a way to eat tomorrow," Maseeh told the BBC.The 45-year-old is among an estimated 700,000 workers who have lost their jobs in recent ...

With its varied, expansive geography and a youthful population, Pakistan should be attractive to investors, especially for labour-intensive industries like clothing or automobile manufacturing. But in addition to the current instability, decades of conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan have also affected the country, with millions of Afghan refugees crossing the ...

This article was first published on Dawn.com.“No one leaves home,” the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire recently wrote, “unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Such words spoke to the time – of migrants washing up on beaches, as richer capitals looked away. It was also why Shire’s poem ...

The United Nations has warned Pakistan that its plans for the “phased and orderly” mass deportations of migrants, including up to 1.7 million Afghans, could threaten their safety after Islamabad announced a crackdown on people living in the country illegally.Last week, Pakistan’s interior ministry said that migrants residing in ...