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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 attacks against Chinese and other minority communities, and excluding them from access to healthcare. more
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 ...

COVID19: Chinese govt trying to silence critics as journalists, activists wage war against regime

Beijing/JEN:While China tries to combat COVID 19 and the backlash from the world for creating the virus, challenges are coming up from within its soil now as several journalists are fight ...

Baloch journalist goes missing in Sweden, Baloch National Movement suspects Pakistan ISI's role

Upsalla: Baloch journalist Sajid Hussain Baloch, who had fled Pakistan for life in 2012 and has been living in self-exile for several years, has gone missing from Swedish city Upsalla for ...

Baloch leader claims Pakistan Army using COVID 19 outbreak as a ground to expand occupation in Balochistan

Islamabad: A Baloch leader has claimed that the Pakistani military is using the Coronavirus outbreak in the nation to expand its occupation and grip in Balochistan, media reports said.

Balochistan National Party (Mengal) Chairman condemns arrest of Jang-Geo Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman

Islamabad: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) Chairman Sardar Akhtar Mengal has condemned the arrest of Jang-Geo Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman by Pakistan's National Acc ...

Despite loud confessions of guilt by ISIS over the Kabul Gurdwara terrorist attack, the orchestrators might actually be different

The Sikh community in Afghanistan that once constituted a vibrant, well integrated and economically active part of Afghan society has, since the Taliban grabbed power in the 1990s, been p ...

Debt relief milestone in Somalia, as World Bank, IMF, call for global payment suspension in light of COVID-19

New York : The top United Nations official in Somalia congratulated the Horn of Africa nation on Wednesday for achieving the benchmark set by the World Bank and the International Monetary ...

Moving forward requires confronting slavery’s ‘racist legacy’: UN chief

New York : In his message for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, observed on Wednesday, the UN Secretary-General called for ...

Law firm Doughty Street Chambers files appeal at UN against arrest of Pakistan media icon Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman

Islamabad: Calling the move 'politically motivated, arbitrary and unlawful', Amal Clooney’s Doughty Street Chambers has filed a complaint at the United Nations (UN) against ...