Last month the Baloch Liberation Tigers (BLT) abducted six football players who BLT said were informants of ISI. In response, a large-scale military operation was launched in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan. High-ranking officials, including Pakistan Army’s Twelfth Corps Commander As

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, chaired by Ambassador Alexander Marschik of Austria, which deals with the social, humanitarian, and cultural issues had an interactive dialogue with various UN Thematic Special Rapporteurs on October 12, 2023. Dr. Alice Jill Edwards (Aus

A Lancet Commission report investigating the nexus of "Women, power, and cancer" says that "patriarchy dominates cancer care, research, and policy making."

 The report underlines that "women experience gender bias, and are subject to overlapping forms of di

Unless the full cascade of quality healthcare services reaches closer to the underserved communities, how will we deliver on the promise of #HealthForAll? One positive ray of light comes from an underserved block of Meghalaya, a north-eastern state of India.

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On October 9, 2023, Nitish Birdi, Indian delegate to the United Nations claimed at the UN Fourth Committee ‘the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will always remain an integral part of India.’ Earlier on October 4, 2023, Dr. Kajal Bhat alleged at the Sixth Committee &l

A seasoned activist of the American Civil LibertiesUnion, who started off fighting injustice while she was still in school, has thanked Hilton Worldwide for removing a KKK picture from the eighth floor of The Tutwiler in downtown Birmingham last month and requested it not to be shy on being woke

The United Nations Sixth Committee held its seventy-eighth session on October 3, 2023, and stressed ‘National, Regional, International Efforts Crucial in Combating Global Threat Of Terrorism.’ Some delegates called attention towards addressing the underline ‘causes of terrorism

Rather HIndutva forces should be happy if opposition  during coming elections without reservation in the Private sector invoke “caste based census / reservation in govt sector (ii)- Hindutva forces should be happy because Caste of Hindu order based elections / politics will streng

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has,” had said the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead. Bearing testimony to this, a small group of people in Bantayan Municipality of Cebu, Philippines, ha

Sadat hated Coptic Christians. This he proved when he became Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in 1954 and was heavily influenced by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Once Sadat became Nasser’s vice president ten years later, he implemented the OIC goal to tra

The recent bold attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, wreaking havoc paints an alarming picture of rising instability across Pakistan. Especially the TTP's recent incursion into Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering Afghanistan is ve

Unless we find people with TB and put them on treatment, how will we be able to reduce avoidable human suffering, untimely deaths, and break the chain of infection transmission? Finding TB remains the critical entry point to TB care pathway.

 Amidst the growing call for finding new

When the largest religion Christianity is not interested in establishing and running rule based global order, the Saudis through the second largest religion Islam can do it (ii)- Saudis shouldn't use Islam merely for cheap politics as Imran did. (iii)- SAARC has two nuclear countries hence wi

 If agents of the Government of India were involved in murder on Canadian soil of Canadian citizen then why were these Indians allowed to leave Canada ? (ii)_ THe trend of accused not produced before court should stop (iii)- UK should  persuade Canada to take its controversy with a

Today the nation of Kashmir is facing an existential threat due to the various draconian laws adopted by Government of India (GoI) which gives total impunity to the roughly 900,000 Indian armed forces in Kashmir. They can shoot anybody, anywhere at will and will not be held accountable under law.