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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested and taken to jail today after a court handed him a three-year prison sentence for illegally selling state gifts, potentially barring the opposition leader from contesting an upcoming election.Efforts to put the divisive politician behind bars have stepped up ahead of ...

U.S. slammed for providing controversial weapons to Kyiv as military aid package The world must step up efforts to stop and prevent the use of cluster bombs in conflict zones, experts said, as they slammed the United States for providing the controversial weapons to Ukraine as part of a ...

LUCKNOW, India —  At least 34 people have died in the past two days as a large swath of the north Indian state Uttar Pradesh swelters under severe heat, officials said Saturday, prompting doctors to advise residents older than 60 to stay indoors during the daytime. The dead were ...

islamabad —  Multiple identical complaints filed with police in Pakistan this week have accused several self-exiled journalists of inciting mutiny against the state and defaming the military, a move critics view as another attempt to suppress freedom of speech in the country. The journalists facing the charges work out ...

Islamabad —  Global and local human rights campaigners in Pakistan asked the government Wednesday to transfer political activists who are set to be prosecuted in military courts for arson to the civilian justice system. Pakistani authorities have handed dozens of former prime minister Imran Khan’s supporters to the army ...

New Delhi:The petitioners seeking legal validation of same-sex marriage on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to use its plenary power, “prestige and moral authority” to push the society to acknowledge such a union which would ensure LGBTQIA persons lead a “dignified” life like heterosexuals. A five-judge Constitution bench headed ...

ISLAMABAD —  A global rights organization has accused Pakistani police of using "abusive measures" in an escalating confrontation with former prime minister Imran Khan's supporters amid a worsening political environment within the nuclear-armed country. Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that police had charged protesters with batons and detained them ...

The Central government must recognise this language called by different names as one of the official languages of India by including it in the eighth schedule of Indian constitution, Tribal Welfare Minister Satyavathi Rathod said Updated On - 07:25 PM, Sun - 26 February 23 Jangaon: Lambadi language is ...

Rights experts from the United Nations have deplored abductions, forced marriages and conversions of girls from Pakistan’s religious minorities, urging the government to swiftly halt such practices. “We are deeply troubled to hear that girls as young as 13 are being kidnapped from their families, trafficked to locations far ...

UN member states have urged India to take a tougher stand on sexual violence and religious discrimination as they raised New Delhi’s human rights record during a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The UPR held every four years is a mechanism to ...