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'Pakistan an exploiter of human rights': Rights Activist Arif Aajikia
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Emphasising the ongoing human rights violations in Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh, Arif Aajikia, a former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) member and human rights activist from Karachi, Pakistan, said that Pakistan is an "exploiter of human rights, adding that the army's military rule is uno
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Women survivors of gender-based violence being jailed by Taliban: UN Repor
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan is sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence, Khaama Press reported, citing the Office of the Deputy of the United Nations in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan: GPE announces USD 110 million aid to support child education
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has announced USD 110 million to support children's education in Afghanistan.
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Iran: Lack of jobs pose major challenge to Afghan immigrant women
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
According to unofficial statistics, approximately 4 to 5 million migrants, of which 90 per cent are Afghan migrants, live in Iran, with 41 per cent of them being women, Khaama Press reported.
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UN Security Council extends sanctions oversight on Taliban for another yea
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
However, despite their opposition to the sanctions against the Taliban, China and Russia did not call for a review of the sanctions on the group. Moscow and Beijing did not veto the continuation of the monitoring team's work.
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Global community stance needed to bring stability in Afghanistan: EU, Uzbe
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Uzbekistan and European Union representatives Ismatullah Ergashev and Thomas Nicholson emphasised the need for a global community stance on Afghanistan to bring peace and stability to the country, as reported by Khaama Press.
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Myanmar becomes world's biggest opium producer, overtakes Afghanistan: UN
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Myanmar has overtaken Afghanistan to become the world's biggest opium producer, the United Nations said in a report.
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Afghanistan: 60 pc of Uruzgan's historical sites destroyed, encroached upo
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Local officials in Afghanistan's Uruzgan have said that 60 per cent of the province's historical places have been destroyed or usurped by the local people, TOLO News reported.
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Afghanistan's Supreme Court issued punishment orders for 350 people in pas
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Afghanistan's Supreme Court has said that it has issued punishment orders for nearly 350 people across the country in the past two years, TOLO News reported.
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Afghan envoy to UN emphasises importance of women's education, work, parti
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Afghanistan's permanent representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Nasir Ahmad Andisha emphasised the importance of women's education, work and participation in the society, on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), TOLO News reported.
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Pakistan summons Afghanistan's diplomat to deliver strong demarche over De
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
According to the statement, Afghanistan's envoy has been asked to convey to Taliban to fully investigate the attack and take stern action against the perpetrators of the attack in Dera Ismail Khan.
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Need another USD 23.6 million to help 600,000 Afghan refugees deported by
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The spokesperson of the United Nations World Food Program in Afghanistan, Ziauddin Safi, has said that the organisation requires an additional USD 23.6 million to assist 600,000 refugees deported by Pakistan, TOLOnews reported.
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