Following an attack on over 140 schoolchildren in Pakistan in 2014, Pakistan reversed its anti-execution laws and has quickly become one of the leading executioners in the world. Since the reversal of the moratorium, 496 people have been executed and at least 4,668 people are currently awaiting execution in Pakistan. There are many problems with the criminal justice system in… Read more »
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament passed legislation on Wednesday to pay compensation to victims of the island’s brutal civil war, nearly a decade after the end of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives.
A Taliban delegation has met with US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Qatar to discuss ending the Afghan conflict, the armed group said on Saturday, in the first official confirmation of talks between the two sides.
After months of speculation, Pakistan’s new government has decided to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance as it faces an economic crisis marked by a mounting balance of payments deficit and dwindling foreign currency reserves.
Islamabad, Pakistan – On a brisk February night in the village of Ranjhay Khan in central Pakistan, Ghulam Qadir received a phone call: “Come and meet us,” the voice said, “and we will resolve all of this.”
Every eight minutes, a child goes missing in India- between 2012 and 2017, 250,000 children were reported as missing by the Indian government. The number is probably much higher- many families don’t report their missing kids because they believe that their children have been sent away for schooling. Known as the “lost generation”, they are exploited for labor by gangs…. Read more »
A child disappears every eight minutes in India. In the capital New Delhi, six out of 10 children who go missing are never found. They are called the “lost generation”: More than 200,000 children are still missing. It is estimated that 70% of them are kidnapped by gangs who then exploit them. Kailash Satyarthi, 64, and his teams are often… Read more »
DHAKA: Journalists and human rights groups are demanding major amendments to a bill recently passed in Bangladesh’s Parliament, saying it will further choke constitutionally protected freedom of speech.
New Delhi – India’s Supreme Court has overturned a decades-old ban by religious authorities that forbid women from entering one of the holiest Hindu temples in the country.
Campaigning has started in Afghanistan for next month’s parliamentary elections amid concerns that the much-delayed vote could be postponed again due to the uncertainty over new technology.