Pakistan falters on four FATF-linked goals
Pakistan, which is on the grey list of the Paris-based international watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF), faltered on four of its goals regarding anti-money laundering and combating the financing…
Pakistan court extends Imran Khan’s bail in terrorism case
A court in Pakistan has extended the pre-arrest bail of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a “terrorism” case till September 20. Khan on Monday appeared before the anti-terrorism court…
Pakistan drops 7 places to 161st rank in Human Development Index
Pakistan has dropped seven places in the Human Development Index (HDI), ranking 161 out of 192 countries in the 2021-2022 period, according to a UNDP report. According to the report, titled…
Concrete action needed to eradicate enforced disappearances: Pak rights body
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has raised concerns over the enforced disappearances in the country and said that expressions of solidarity can be no substitute for concrete action…
Pakistan’s Selective Human Rights and Islamophobia Concerns
Four years ago, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [OCHCR] released a“Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State…
Surge in Pakistan’s circular debt continues, CPEC dues cross PKR 220 billion
Despite the payment of PKR 50 billion for the CPEC power project in June by the government, the piling up of unpaid payments has only skyrocketed in Pakistan. According to ARY News, the South-Asian country’s…
Pakistan Has Learned No Lesson to Deal With Floods or Other Climate Calamities
The official government figures show that more than 1300 people have been killed in the recent mega floods in Pakistan which are already going through a political storm of its own. The…
Pakistan shifts terrorist launch pad near LoC; security forces on high alert
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have inputs that Pakistan has shifted terrorist launch pads near the Line of Control to push as many terrorists as possible into the Indian…
In a first, Pak army accepts body of trained LeT militant
For the first time in more than two decades, Pakistan army today accepted the body of a trained agent and guide of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror group who had infiltrated into…
In Pakistan, PTI’s Billion Tree Project hit by claims of corruption
Initiated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the Billion Tree Project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been hit by the provincial government’s corruption and failure, according to reports. The province had claimed that one billion trees has…