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By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Six men were sentenced by a court in Pakistan for their roles in last year’s vigilante killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager accused by workers of committing blasphemy. The six men sentenced to death were convicted of the murder of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana in a case that outraged many Pakistanis. It is worth mentioning that a charged mob had tortured to death a foreigner working in a private factory as an export manager and set his body on fire in Sialkot, an Industrial city in Pakistan’s Punjab province earlier on December 3, 2021. According…

Islamabad: In one of the major airstrikes conducted by Pakistan’s military as above two dozen people including terrorists have perished, several others were injured, according to International media.

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan has been re-elected for the seventh time to the United Nations’ Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The election took place at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations in New York on 13 April 2022. The Committee is an intergovernmental body that oversees the implementation of the legal framework governing NGOs’ participation in the work of the United Nations. It considers the applications of NGOs seeking consultative status and accreditation to the ECOSOC. Pakistan’s election to the Committee reflects the confidence of the international community in its role and contribution to…

By Kashif Habeeb Pakistan is a country where the debt to GDP ratio is increasing every year. In fiscal budget 2021-22, 41% budget was used just for interest payments on loans that Pakistan has taken in previous years and the total budget deficit for the same fiscal year was RS3.5 trillion. Despite this situation, Pakistan’s governments prefer to invest in the projects which give them political benefits and later become white elephants for the country’s economy. For the completion of these projects, Government approaches different international financial institutions for loans and then entraps in the vicious circle of debt. Ultimately…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan strongly reacted to an attempt made by the USA and arch rival India on Wednesday. “Pakistan categorically rejects the unwarranted reference in the Statement issued after the U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on 11 April 2022,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office stated on wednesday. The gratuitous reference in the statement alluding to some non-existent and dismantled entities betrays misplaced counter-terrorism focus of both countries. It is unfortunate that a bilateral cooperation mechanism is being used to target a third country for political expediency and to mislead public opinion away from the real and emerging terrorism threats. The…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Responding to the arrest of eight people, all of whom were detained by the Federal Investigative Agency after they published criticism of the state on Twitter, Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty International’s South Asia Research Director, said: “The Pakistani authorities must stop using the draconian Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act to punish people who are simply exercising their right to freedom of expression online. For far too long, successive governments have used this law as a tool to crush peaceful dissent and intimidate supporters of political opposition. “Nobody should be arrested merely for expressing their views — whether…

By Our Staff Reporter Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday condemned burning of Muslim’s houses in Rajasthan, India. “Pakistan strongly condemns the senseless vandalization and burning of more than 40 houses of Muslim community in Karauli, Rajasthan by radical Hindu zealots belonging to BJP-RSS dispensation with connivance of the local security authorities. Equally alarming is the apathy of state machinery which wantonly looked the other way and failed in its basic duty of protecting the lives and properties of its citizens,” according to a statement issued by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Regretfully, the minorities in India, especially Muslims continue to live…

Western nations must transition away from the fossil fuels that leave them dependent on Russia and other authoritarian states, experts warned at a media briefing hosted by Gas Exports on Tuesday.

It is deeply concerning that the malicious trend of characterizing Muslims as ‘others’ or ‘20%’ by prominent BJP leaders which was continuing with appalling impunity is now also being translated into decisions by the judiciary. The discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the grossly injudicious Indian Supreme Court judgment in the Babri mosque case are not distant memories.  

The meeting was held in the backdrop of the recent announcement by WHO regarding approval of Pakistan’s Expression of Interest (EOI) to seek technology transfer and technical support under the COVAX initiative of the WHO,” stated a press release issued from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday