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Islamabad: Politicial activists have attacked Pakistan government by alleging that it is not providing food and other crucial items needed by throusands of migrant workers from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) who are currently stuck in Karachi city due to COVID-19 outbreak, media reports said. more
India's Kashmir region fights COVID-19: Young social activists help poor in Pulwama

Pulwama: India's Jammu and Kashmir region is witnessing a crisis like rest of the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the resultant lockdown. But to help the poor people of the reg ...

Covid 19: Catholic Church of Asia head Cardinal Charles Maung Bo holds Chinese govt accountable

Yangon (Myanmar): Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, head of the Catholic Church in Asia, has minced no words in blaming the Chinese regime for the global Covid-9 contagion. The prelate, who is a ...

As youths lose jobs in Pakistan amid COVID-19 lockdown, their families protest outside Punjab Governor's house

Lahore: With several youth losing jobs amid lockdown imposed by PM Imran Khan-led government to combat COVID-19 outbreak, their family members on Sunday protested  outside Punjab Gov ...

Covid-19: China now faces 'compensation' heat, London-based ICJ moves UNHRC

London: The London-based International Council of Jurists (ICJ) has moved the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to seek compensation from China for "surreptitiously developing a biolog ...

Political prisoners should be among first released in pandemic response, says UN rights chief

New York : The decision by many Governments to release prisoners to slow the transmission of new coronavirus, was welcomed on Friday by the UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachel ...

COVID-19: Dependence on China and discrimination on PoK people deepening crisis in Pakistan

Islamabad: At the time of crisis when Pakistan is still depending on China, its all-weather ally and the epicentre of the COVID-19 disease spread, reports are emerging that PM Imran Khan- ...

Release inmates in Yemen to avert nationwide coronavirus outbreak, experts urge

New York : An international panel of human rights experts called today for the immediate release of political prisoners and detainees in war-ravaged Yemen to help avert a nationwide outbr ...

COVID-19 stoking xenophobia, hate and exclusion, minority rights expert warns

Combatting the COVID-19 pandemic must also include stamping out what one independent human rights expert has called the “darker sides” of the disease: verbal and physical atta ...

Covid-19: Hindus, Christians denied food supplies in Pakistan

Islamabad: The world is unitedly trying to beat the COVID-19 outbreak and the disease has even extended its killer arms in Pakistan but for the administration in the South Asian nation re ...