In Dr Shireen Mazari, Pakistan has Federal Minister for Human Rights who “lies through her teeth” about the rights situation at home, but exceeding her ministerial brief, talks of alleged rights violations outside.

The “lying through her teeth” charge has come fr

Amid his domestic, foreign and economic woes, Prime Minister Imran Khan recently faced protest rallies from his pre-July 2018 poll supporters-students- just on the heels of about 15-day Azadi March asking him to quit.

The student rallies, organized by Student Action Committee (SAC), wer

Judiciary has once again become the supreme arbiter in Pakistan. It helped jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to leave country, then put a question mark on the continuance of the current army chief, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, and could now well provide relief to another jailed opposition lead

This refers to press release of the ‘US Commission on International Religious Freedom’ (USCIRF) about Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in India, which was passed by Lower House of the Parliament on December, 9 (https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/press-releases-statements/uscirf-raises

An easy to consume, heat-stable, fixed-dose combination of four antiretrovirals (ARVs) developed for HIV infected infants and young children between 3 and 25 kg bodyweight is currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If approved by the FDA, this all-in-one ARV regimen,

US president Donald Trump is complaining, day in and day out, about the unreasonable business practices of China which, as per him, are damaging the just global economic order in this age of globalization. But Trump is not doing anything, worth the name, which will promote and protect free-global

Documenting the extent of Chinese persecution of Uyghur minority people in the province of Xinjiang is a difficult task because of the very authoritarian nature of the state in China. In 2018, it was estimated that China had established over 100 camps in Xinjiang. It was then thought that these c

Recently the Indian media and political class were discussing the statements of two industrialists Rahul Bajaj and Kiran Mazumdar who criticized the present government for creating an atmosphere of fear which is even scaring the industrialists to legitimately criticize the government of India (Go

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-