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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has voiced dismay over the authorities’ decision to prohibit observances of key religious events including Jumat-ul-Vida, Shab-e-Qadr, and Eid prayers at the Jama Masjid Srinagar. According to a statement, issued to KNS, Mirwaiz criticised the contradiction between the authorities’ optimistic public statements regarding the situation in ...

Islamabad, Pakistan: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, continues to remain inaccessible to users in Pakistan after internet watchdog groups started to report outages on Saturday. NetBlocks, an organisation that monitors accessibility issues on the internet, On February 17 confirmed that a “national-scale disruption” has hit X ...

Eight governments in Asia imposed 55 internet shutdowns in 2023 with a majority of them recorded in Iran and India, according to an analysis by virtual private network provider Surfshark, published on Thursday. India imposed 11 internet restrictions throughout 2023, of which eight were in relation to anti-government protests, ...

JAMMU: A day after Parliament granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahari community, authorities on Wednesday imposed strict restrictions on internet and gatherings in the twin frontier districts of Poonch and Rajouri. Curbs were also put in place in Jammu district on posting and sharing content ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said review orders to consider pleas for the restoration of internet services in Jammu and Kashmir are “not meant to be kept in the cupboard” and asked the administration to publish them. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sanjay Karol ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a U.N report published Monday. In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if ...

A former news anchor in Indian-controlled Kashmir is forging a new career in the food industry after restrictions on media forced her out of a job. Muheet Ul Islam has more from Srinagar. Camera and video edit: Wasim Nabi Source link

Pakistan has ordered all undocumented Afghans to leave by November 1. As part of that crackdown, the government now requires locals to present visas or passports to cross the border, documents that many lack. VOA’s Murtaza Zehri has the story; Bezhan Hamdard narrates. Camera: Murtaza Zehri. Source link

Source link www.rferl.org The education of girls and women is universally accepted in more than 200 countries and territories, including nearly 50 Muslim-majority nations. But Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have banned teenage girls from attending school after the sixth grade since they returned to power two years ago. ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, - Pakistan's rupee fell to a record low in the interbank market on Tuesday due to an easing in import restrictions that has lifted demand for the dollar. Pakistan imposed import restrictions from 2022 to stem outflows from its shrinking foreign reserves. The removal of those restrictions ...