Rights body flags escalating violence on Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan

IANS | May 21, 2026 8:18 PM

Islamabad, May 21 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation on Thursday wrote to the Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, expressing grave concerns over the structural and persistent discrimination, harassment and violence against the Ahmadiyya community in the province.

Taliban’s new family law deepens discrimination against women, girls: UNAMA

IANS | May 21, 2026 7:46 PM

Kabul, May 21 (IANS) The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “grave concern” over a new Taliban family law regulation on Thursday. According to UNAMA, the law published by the ruling Taliban’s Ministry of Justice on May 14 codifies laws governing judicial separation grounds for women. It said that the law operates in a “deeply unequal framework”, where women must pursue complex and restrictive judicial procedures while men retain the unilateral right to divorce.