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Cannot rely on Pak & China, Afghanistan must turn to tested developmen
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 6 (ANI): Afghanistan under the Taliban's fundamentalism is on a rapid path to financial crisis and humanitarian crisis and amid this, the country cannot rely on Pakistan's politically motivated token gestures or on China's debt diplomacy which has wreaked economic
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US special envoy skips Doha meet, says will talk to Taliban after their co
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 2 (ANI): While skipping the Doha meeting between the US delegation and Taliban representatives, US special envoy for Afghan women Rina Amiri said that she will only talk to the Taliban when they take concrete steps to ensure human rights, especially the rights of wo
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Pak minority groups in Canada moot over state -sponsored atrocities in Sin
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], June 30 (ANI): Members of Pakistan's minority groups raised several related to state atrocities, human rights violations, and systematic discrimination in Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Afghan grand assembly 'Loya Jirga' opens in Kabul, women debarred
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 30 (ANI): The first-ever 'Loya Jirga' or grand assembly of religious scholars and elders opened in Kabul on Thursday, Xinhua reported citing the Afghan caretaker government's chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid.
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Kashmiris hold anti-Pak protest, call out Islamabad's human rights violati
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 28 (ANI): On the sidelines of the ongoing 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, a number of Kashmiri activists, led by the chairman of the United Kashmir People's National Party, Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, demonstrated against Pakista
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Pakistan glorifies terrorism in the name of Islam: Author Arif Jamal
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): Author and political commentator Arif Jamal said that Pakistan commits human rights violations with the help of terrorism and militancy and later glorifies these abuses in the name of Islam.
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Labour rights continue to be abused in Pakistan: Reports
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): Workers in Pakistan suffer an abusive environment with blatant violations of their rights particularly in garment factories, according to report.
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Enforced birth control measures driving human rights violation in China: R
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): In order to put a barricade on the receding population, the Communist Party of China have tried to increase the birth rate in the country in a quest to increase the size of the labour force and restore the advantages of cheap labour by initially switching to a
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World Sindhi Congress raises issue of gross human rights violations of Sin
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 23 (ANI): During the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Asif Panwhar, member of World Sindhi Congress (WSC) called on the Council to look into the gross human rights violations of Sindhi people in Pakistan and urged to take action to protect
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8th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet to begin today in Washingt
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 22 (ANI): The eighth World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet (WPCT) will be held in Washington, DC. from June 22 to 23 to gather the world leaders in expressing concern over human rights violations and religious repression in Tibet.
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Ban on same-sex marriage not unconstitutional: Japan court
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Osaka [Japan], June 21 (ANI): An Osaka court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit, which argued that the government's ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional.
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End violence, serious human rights violations against Afghan refugees: Rig
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 21 (ANI): To mark World Refugee Day, the Alliance for Human Rights in Afghanistan reminded the international community of its obligations to uphold and protect the right to seek asylum, the right to life and other fundamental human rights of Afghan refugees under th
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