The Deputy Commissioner Islamabad on Sunday appealed residents to cooperate with security agencies during the prevailing situation and to remain updated through official channels regarding any further announcements, as all heavy and public transport services in the federal capital remain suspended until further notice. In a message issued on X (formerly Twitter) and other media […]
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Law, Not Unilateralism
Recent observations by the United Nations on India’s actions following the April 22 Pahalgam incident reinforce long-standing concerns about the erosion of international legal norms in South Asia. While the rapporteurs do not function as judicial bodies, their assessments carry authoritative weight in interpreting states’ obligations under international law and human-rights conventions. Their findings place […]
Law of the Gunboat
It should not require repetition, but here we are. International waters are not supposed to belong to anyone, aid convoys are not supposed to be treated as contraband, and most heart-wrenching of all, children are not supposed to starve because one state says so. Yet a flotilla carrying food and medicine to Gaza was stopped […]
Azam Tarar resigns as law minister
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar has given his resignation for ‘personal reasons’ on Monday. Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar’s resignation came after he attended the Asma Jahangir Conference where audiences chanted slogans against the institutions. Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar sent his handwritten resignation to President Dr. Arif Alvi. He […]
WhatsApp blocks 2 million Indian users over messaging violations
WhatsApp blocked more than two million users in India in just one month for violating its rules, the US company disclosed in its first compliance report under India’s controversial new social media rules. Most of the users were blocked for spam message abuses. The Facebook-owned firm has put a limit on mass forward messaging in […]
The US battle over voting rights
Americans turned out in record numbers for the 2020 election, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, but Republicans in many states are marking that achievement with new laws to make it harder to vote. Republicans claim that expanded hours for voting, wider access to mail-in ballots, and other accommodations made for the coronavirus pandemic led to extensive […]
Egypt steps up penalties for sexual harassment
Egypt’s parliament on Sunday passed a law toughening sentences for sexual harassment to at least five years in prison, Egyptian media outlets reported. The amendment makes sexual harassment a criminal offence, as opposed to a misdemeanour, and raises the minimum penalty from a year and half in prison plus a fine. It also imposes a […]
Canadian MPs pass bill banning LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’
A bill banning LGBTQ “conversion therapies” passed Canada’s House of Commons Tuesday, a victory for Justin Trudeau’s minority government which had pledged to end the practice, widely regarded as a human rights violation. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, although over half of the main opposition Conservative party voted against it despite support […]
Overcrowding in Prisons: Pakistan vs Others
“Convince people they are merely animals and you can treat them accordingly” – Dean Cavanagh in The Secret Life of the Novel The popular saying mentioned above was made in relation to the elite promoting Darwinism. The elite have always sprung as the prioritized class, swaying their way out despite all the allegations. If one […]
Firdous says PTI firmly stands with institutions, Sharifs on the other side
LAHORE – Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and its government are firmly standing with institutions while Sharif family is on the other side “Sharif family has a history of making institutions ‘controversial’ to promote self-interest at the cost of the state. They (Sharifs) […]