Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) In yet another shocking crime details emerging from Pakistan, four men allegedly gang raped a woman in a van that moved around the Baga Sheikhan area which comes under the jurisdiction of Rawat police in Pakistan's Punjab province, local media reported.
Kabul, April 1 (IANS) UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has criticised the continued ban preventing Afghan women from accessing United Nations offices, terming the policy discriminatory and unjustifiable, local media reported on Wednesday.
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) Pakistan's continued custodial torture reflects grave institutional shortcomings, particularly the lack of adequate training of police forces in modern investigative techniques, like forensic analysis and evidence-based interrogation methods, a report mentioned.
Wellington, April 1 (IANS) India's High Commissioner to New Zealand Muanpuii Saiawi presented her Letter of Credence to New Zealand Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro on Wednesday who conveyed her best wishes to the Indian diplomat for her new assignment.
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) Christian groups and rights activists staged a protest in Pakistan's Karachi, expressing deep concern over what they described as a rising wave of forced marriages and religious conversions involving minor girls from their community across the country, a leading minority rights group said on Wednesday.
Dhaka, April 1 (IANS) Bangladesh's Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed strongly condemned the 'July National Charter (Constitutional Reform) Implementation Order, 2025', issued during the previous Muhammad Yunus-led interim government term, terming it an "endless document of deception" and a "national fraud", local media reported.
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) Members of the transgender community in Pakistan's Faisalabad have expressed concerns over the discrimination and the non-implementation of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, especially the failure to implement the three per cent job quota in government and semi-government institutions, local media reported on Wednesday.
Dhaka, April 1 (IANS) As the measles outbreak triggers public health concerns across Bangladesh, as many as four children have died from suspected cases and related complications in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 44 this year, local media reported on Wednesday.
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) The participants of a jirga have urged governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan to stop the border clashes and resolve their differences through dialogue, local media reported on Wednesday.
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The fall of the National Thowheed Jamath (NJT), which masterminded the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, came as a major relief for the security agencies. The NJT had not only spread its ideology in Sri Lanka, but was active in the southern states, especially in Tamil Nadu. While the NJT remains largely defunct today, the agencies are keeping close tabs on operatives linked to the outfit, prior to its fall.
