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Listen to article(2 minutes)ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan started rounding up tens of thousands of undocumented Afghans for deportation back to the country they fled, prompting fears that some awaiting resettlement to the U.S. could be swept up. Police raids took place across the country on Wednesday, the deadline for undocumented Afghans to leave. “By midnight tonight return ...

The current turmoil is unprecedented, but its roots lie in the country’s founding ideology. Source link

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on corruption charges, sparking protests across the country by his supportersy. Source link

WorldAfricaMore than 600 people have been killed in weeks of flooding that experts have blamed on climate change and compared with the September floods in Pakistan Source link

If pathological optimists still think the U.N. Human Rights Council cares about human rights, they might want to note events last week. A motion was made in Geneva to debate China’s abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, and the council voted 19-17 not even to discuss it.Siding with ...

Nadhim, Rishi, Sajid, Kemi, Penny, Suella, Liz. An Iraqi-born Kurdish refugee, the son of Indian-born east Africans who emigrated to seek a better future for their family; the child of a Pakistani-born bus driver; an immigrant who escaped political turmoil in Nigeria as a teenager and worked her way ...

Could India’s fraught domestic politics hinder the country’s transformation into a leading global power? The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s increasingly shrill brand of Hindu nationalism has inflamed religious animosity within the country. It’s now complicating relationships outside Indian borders as well.The problem’s latest incarnation: disparaging comments BJP officeholders recently ...

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan—Palwasha didn’t get enough time to pick the names for her twins.Her son died immediately after birth. Her daughter, born premature and weighing 700 grams, equivalent to 1½ pounds, was put into an incubator at the provincial hospital in Maidan Shahr. Breathing seemed to take all her ...

By The Editorial Board Close The Editorial Board Dec. 27, 2021 6:41 pm ET The European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. Photo: denis balibouse/Reuters In 2021 the Israeli electorate traded former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative government for a centrist coalition backed by Arab parliamentarians. But the ...

ZARANJ, Afghanistan—To escape the Taliban, Mohammad Taher, a soldier in the army of the ousted U.S.-backed Afghan government, fled first through the desert to Pakistan, then dodged gunfire to cross the border into Iran. There, a truck he was riding in—crammed together with other Afghan migrants—slid off a winding ...