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Rights groups have criticised the repatriation drive, warning that mass expulsions risk endangering vulnerable people.Pakistan has confirmed to have repatriated more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since April 1, before an extended April 30 deadline for the country’s largest migrant group in an initiative labelled as “forced deportation” by Afghanistan. ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – In the cavernous hall of the Jinnah Convention Centre in Islamabad, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hailed the country’s diaspora as the “pride of the nation,” lauding them for their “unmatched contribution” to the country they have left. And it wasn’t just talk. Speaking to an audience ...

Over the last few weeks, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that 12 groups in Kashmir had cut off ties with the Hurriyat Conference, an influential collective of separatist organisations in the Valley.“It is a prominent demonstration of the people’s trust in the Constitution of India within the valley,” ...

Pampore, Indian-administered Kashmir – At 4am, before the first call to prayer echoes through Pampore’s saffron fields in the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Kashmir, 52-year-old Bashir Ahmad Bhat steps out with a flashlight. The crisp air carries the scent of soil, but his heart sinks – his precious saffron ...

Three Kashmir fighters and an Indian soldier killed in separate firefights in Indian-administered Kashmir.At least three suspected rebel fighters and one Indian soldier have been killed in separate firefights in Indian-administered Kashmir less than a week after Interior Minister Amit Shah visited the disputed territory. The Indian army said ...

PM Modi said the politics of appeasement was at the root of the debate over the issue of Waqf and it brought the Congress to power and some Muslim fundamentalists became rich. File | Photo Credit: ANI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (April 8, 2025) said the new ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a range of reciprocal tariffs targeting almost all countries that the United States trades with, taking a sledgehammer to Washington’s longstanding advocacy of free trade and globalisation. Trump’s latest tariffs, which build on a series of similar steps he has taken since returning ...

A Delhi court on Tuesday ordered a first information report to be filed against Bharatiya Janata Party leader and state law minister Kapil Mishra for his alleged involvement in violence that broke out in the city in February 2020, Live Law reported.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasiya of the ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is the only home Mohammad Laal Khan has known. He was born here. He married here. His children were born here. He buried his eldest brother here. But a late-night police raid in November last year shattered his sense of belonging. Khan was born in ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistan government has launched an ambitious agricultural project with the aim of boosting food security in the South Asian nation of 240 million people. A network of six canals will be built across the country to irrigate millions of acres of barren lands as part ...