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The Baloch National Movement (BNM) held a day-long awareness campaign and protest in London to denounce the ongoing siege of Zehri and highlight the worsening human rights situation in occupied Balochistan. more
Pakistan: KP CM expresses concern over forced deportation of Afghan refugees

Suhail Afridi, the newly appointed Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has voiced his concern over the forced deportation of Afghan refugees from Paksitan.

Unknown gunmen kill Afghan cleric in Pakistan

Unidentified gunmen shot dead an Afghan cleric in Pakistan's Peshawar city recently, media reports said.

Pakistani government plans to shut down 16 Afghan refugee camps

The Pakistani government has decided to shut down at least 16 Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, a move expected to hit 90,000 refugees.

Chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan to Afghanistan is threatening broader regional stability, says UN

A chaotic wave of returnees from Iran and Pakistan is straining Afghanistan’s already fragile capacity under Taliban rule and threatening broader regional stability, said the UN ref ...

Shelter and safety elude Afghan women returnees from Iran and Pakistan, says UN report

As returns of Afghan refugees and those living in refugee-like conditions from Iran and Pakistan increase – many forcibly – women and girls are arriving in a country where the ...

Funding cuts in Afghanistan mean ‘lives lost and lives less lived’

In a remote village clinic in the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan last week, a group of teenage girls were given potentially life-saving reproductive health advice, excited by the small ki ...

Taliban’s pursuit of ‘Islamic vision’ eroding freedoms in Afghanistan: UN Security Council

The Taliban’s continued imposition of strict interpretations of Islamic law and Afghan culture has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on women and girls, the UN envoy for the co ...

UN human rights office calls for immediate revocation of new Taliban ‘virtue and vice’ order targeting women

A new morality law enacted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cements policies that “completely erase” women’s presence in public, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on ...

Top UN official highlight plight of Afghanistani people as they face massive poverty

The humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are “alarmingly high” and the international community is in “crisis management mode”, the UN Security Council heard on Friday ...