Avi Melamed is a former Israeli Intelligence Official and Senior Official on Arab Affairs. He is the founder of Inside the Middle East Institute providing apolitical knowledge about the middle east.

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Three cases agitate the moral sense of the authorities and recreate the issue of abuses related to the social media blasphemy in Pakistan. The first gravely concerned a doctor, Shah Nawaz Kumbhar, originally from Umerkot in the Province of Sindh, accused of sharing blasphemous contents on social

The USA still Should immediately allow UKraine to use long range missiles (ii)- Russia can easily be deterred from precipitating an escalated / nuclear war with the USA / NATO if the USA urgently dismantles the UN and starts working for a new rule based world body. 

— The USA

The seventy-sixth session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) began on Monday, September 9, 2024, in Geneva while the 57th session of Human Rights Council is also taking place. The 76th session will continue until October 9, 2024.

 The 18 internationall

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Let us share an old story you might have read it already. But guiding lights always guide. This is one of them for us: "Once upon a time, there was an old woman who used to go to the ocean to do her writing. She had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before she began her work. Ear

Recent bold attacks carried out by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) rocked Pakistan. A large number of people and security personnel were killed in the province of Balochistan when separatist insurgents attacked police stations, railway lines and highways, and security forces camps. The assaults were

Bangladesh has always been open to foreign investment, and the interim government of Bangladesh under Dr Yunus is working to draw in capital for areas that will actually see economic growth, even though recent political transition in Bangladesh slowed down foreign investors' interest in inves

.. So goes the theme of the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) which will be held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand next month. This theme is a pointer towards channelising the energies of people of all genders who work to defend human rights and promote gender equality to collectively resis

 if Prez Biden & PM Modi think that without launching “ New US sponsored Rule Based Global Order” the global problems can be solved then they are living in a make believe world. 

This refers to the news that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Bid

Transformative empowerment is mostly not given by ‘experts from the outside,’ but happens when the most affected people themselves rise to take back power to transform their lives and wellbeing. “When we put people first, then we cannot just address one or two issues they face,&

The Ummah is exceptionally grateful for your unwearied efforts in advancing the cause of Palestine for the last more than five decades. You have been consistent in pleading the case of ‘two-state solution’ for Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

During an interview with Nikkei Asi

The Rohingya crisis has lasted for seven years, and there still seems to be no sign of an end in sight. More than a million Rohingya people in Myanmar crossed the border to seek refuge in Bangladesh in 2017 as a result of systematic ethnic cleansing operations carried out by their government, whi

"No one is safe until everyone is safe," said Dr Umesh Dahal, Director General, Department of Livestock Services, Government of Nepal. He was referring to antimicrobial resistance or drug resistance when microbes (such as bacteria, virus, fungi or parasites) stop responding to medicines

 According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Government of India, the workers in the unorganised sector constitute about 93% of the total workforce in the country. A lot of them are informal migrant workers who live in difficult conditions and are most likely to be left behind when