ISLAMABAD, SEPT 3 /DNA/ – The war torn Afghanistan needs attention of the global community to play their role to avert humanitarian crises, and help people stabilize, recure livelihood and food and come out of extreme poverty, said the experts from diverse backgrounds while speaking at the webinar ‘Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan Post US Evacuation’ organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI).    The humanitarian institutions are warning against influx of the would-be Afghan refugees if their needs are not met within the country and circumstances force them to flee. Ms Tammi Sharpe, Deputy Representative UNHCR Pakistan, highlightedRead More

Until his last breath, he refused to compromise on the 72-year-old UN-sanctioned plebiscite, which was never held in Kashmir. And for that, he spent the last decade under house arrest. A few years ago, a video went viral in Kashmir in which an old man is seen banging a steel gate with both fists. Through a small, rectangular opening in the gate, he is heard telling a policeman on the other side, in chaste Urdu, ‘open the gate, your democracy is dead, its funeral is underway’. The old man wasRead More

MINSK, Sept 3: /DNA/ Ambassador Sajjad Haider Khan met with the Director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR), Mr. Oleg Makarov. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Director, Vitaly Stakhovsky, and Expert, Mr. Yury Yarmolinsky. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the possibilities of cooperation between the leading think tanks and research centers of Pakistan with BISR. The Ambassador confirmed his readiness to contribute to the establishment of stronger ties between the think tanks of Belarus and Pakistan and the possibility of his personal further participation inRead More