With just 133 months left to end AIDS, this year's World AIDS Day underlines the urgency to step up the fight against the epidemic. Despite unprecedented progress made in scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, we are not yet on track to end AIDS by 2030. One of the major thre

The Kurds have brokered a deal with the President Bashar Al-Assad government that saw the Syrian Arab Army returning for the first time to the areas controlled by the Kurds which they left since the early days of the civil war. Regime forces entered the provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa. Moreover, A

The longstanding wish of the Indian Sikh community to be able to visit one of Sikhism’s holiest sites, the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, located in Pakistan’s Punjab province, was finally fulfilled on 9 November 2019. Just a few days prior to the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism’s fo

It seems the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) is trying to create a bizarre history in the annals of jurisprudence through the November, 28 reported order (on the controversy of extension of Army Chief General Bajwa) where it says that- 5. The learned Attorney-General has categorically assured the

According to the German government official documents, Pakistan has been indulged in illegally procuring technology used in nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons. This has been revealed during an official reply conveyed by the German government earlier this month to a question posed by s

There is a lesser-known political side to the promised economic boom China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that the world is only now waking up to: the corridor helps China to buy Pakistan’s studied silence on persecution of the Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang province located close to the

The media of Pakistan (print and electronic) is full of reports and discussions over criticism of CPEC by Ambassador Alice Wells, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia at the U.S. Department of State as mentioned at https://www.state.gov/a-conversation-with-

When tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable, is it not shocking that it still remains the biggest-killer-infectious-disease worldwide? According to the latest WHO Global TB Report 2019, 1.5 million people died of TB last year, and between 1.5 to 2 billion people are infected with latent TB.

The unrelenting effort by India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to highlight the dangers of terrorism and the need for united action has its genesis in the November 26, 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

 Then Gujarat’s Chief Minister, Modi, was first among senior political le

 193 countries committed to deliver on the promises enshrined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of which is to end AIDS by 2030. Target to end AIDS by 2030 is also enlisted in India's National Health Policy (NHP 2017). "Only 133 months are left to meet these target

For the fourth consecutive year, access to the internet in China has been ranked the least free among 65 surveyed nations, according to the latest report by US Human Rights group Freedom House. The report says that China is at the forefront of a global embrace of social media to ‘manipulate

According to a report by the Freedom Network that released on the ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ on November 2, 2019, shockingly announced that 33 journalists have been killed in Pakistan during the last six years while doing their jobs. It could be

The Pakistan media (print & electronic) is full of controversy between PM Imran Khan and Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa where in a scathing rejoinder to Imran Khan’s recent statements on the country’s judiciary, the CJP on Wednesday said it was the federal govern

This refers to November, 17 Press conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zq_hktsR7w ) by ‘All India Muslim Personal law Board’ (AIMPLB) where it was revealed that Review petition will be filed against SCI judgment of November 9, 2019 in Ayodhya dispute (https://ummid.com/news/20

The three major problems Pakistan is still facing since its existence in 1947 are (i)- Lack of Federalism which resulted also in separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971 (ii)- Not working seriously for plebiscite in United-J&K (though mandated by ‘Instrument of Accession’ of