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. A Victim Support Officer at a Police Service Center, Dr Farri, said that individuals from transgender community continue to face …
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Kabul, March 24 (IANS) In a poignant sight, several Afghan families searched for their loved ones on Eid in Afghanistan after Pakistan’s airstrike on a drug rehab centre in Kabul claimed lives of over 400 people on March 16, a report has detailed. The Pakistani attack against what it termed as “military and terrorist infrastructure” in Afghanistan seemed to have gone wrong catastrophically as a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts was targetted which resulted in a massive tragedy. On Eid, Sohr…
London, March 22 (IANS) Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community emergency service were set ablaze in the Golders Green area of north London. Police are treating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime, according to local media reports.Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called to Highfield Road at around 1.45 a.m. on Monday (local time) following reports of a fire. Authorities later confirmed that the incident is being investigated as a targeted hate crime, according to The Guar…
Los Angeles, March 1 (IANS) Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has been arrested once again in New Orleans. He has been charged with an additional misdemeanor count of simple battery. The charge is related to his initial February 17 arrest in New Orleans during a Mardi Gras celebration, reports ‘People’ magazine.The actor surrendered himself to authorities on Saturday, prior to a bail hearing. He posted a bond of $5,000 and was released from police custody, as per ‘The Guardian’.The actor’s …
London, Feb 3 (IANS) During UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent visit to China, discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping avoided Beijing’s “dangerous, unexplained, secretive and rapid buildup” of nuclear weapons as well as other contentious issues such as human rights abuses, espionage and Taiwan, a report said on Tuesday. Citing the 2025 report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), a report in the UK’s leading daily, The Guardian, stated that while …
London, Feb 2 (IANS) Several activists have called on the United Kingdom’s Salisbury Cathedral — home to one of four surviving copies of the Magna Carta –considered as “Charter of Rights” — to remove surveillance cameras manufactured by Dahua Technology, a Chinese company based in China’s Hangzhou city, a report said on Monday. It added that similar appeals were made to the authorities overseeing Greece’s Parthenon temple, which is monitored by cameras made by another Chinese compa…
London, Jan 30 (IANS) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his team have been given burner phones and fresh sim cards during their China visit. They are also using temporary email addresses to prevent devices being loaded with spyware or UK government servers being hacked into, a report has stated. “The employment of such tactics may sound dramatic but they are par for the course in an age of digital espionage and information security. Burner phones, for example, are routinely used by No 10 o…
London, Jan 28 (IANS) Violence against the transgender community has surged in Pakistan, a report stated on Wednesday while highlighting the recent attack on Bindiya Rana. Rana was attacked at her home while she was having tea with Zehrish Khanzadi, another trans woman who works for the Gender Alliance Interactive (GIA), an organisation that advocates for transgender rights.”Within seconds of Rana unlocking the door remotely from the kitchen, three shots rang out. The men fled and she narrowly e…
Washington, Jan 24 (IANS) United States Senator Mark R. Warner wrote to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing concern over ongoing alleged human rights violations in Pakistan targeting political figures, journalists, and activists, including widespread arrests and instances of transnational repression.In his letter, Senator Warner urged Rubio to take diplomatic steps and engage with the government of Pakistan over these abuses.Referring to Pakistan’s 2024 general elections, which we…
London, Jan 23 (IANS) Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command is carrying out a probe into a series of “highly targetted” attacks on Pakistani dissidents residing in United Kingdom which may have involvement of States using criminal proxies to silence their critics, local media reported. One person has been detained after four attacks were conducted since Christmas eve. Among those, one attack involved a firearm. Two prominent supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, were t…