Despite ban, hunt goes on for rare animals
High Asia Herald Report Afghan President Ashraf Ghani banned the hunting of rare birds and animals two years ago, but
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Media, rights watchdogs hit out at government on new social media rules
The coalition of social media tech giants and legal experts have alarmed that the new regulation will curb political dissent,
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First female transgender represents Pakistan at UN forum
Aisha Mughal representing Pakistan at the UN Convention to end all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) at Geneva, Switzerland
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‘People’s economic rights must not be sacrificed at the altar of national security’
The audience at the first Asma Jehangir memorial lecture organised by the HRCP at Islamabad Hotel on Tuesday. Credit: Asif
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The struggle continues: AWP eulogises women resistance
Awami Workers Party Islamabad-Rawalpindi’s statement pays rich tribute to Pakistan Women’s Resistance Day PR In commemoration of the National Women’s
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The graveyard talks back –I
Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register
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Tajik mothers donate organs to save each other’s daughters
www.rferl.org/b76c7cea-7f1c-4de8-964e-9d88ba149ad8 High Asia Herald Report Two Tajik girls were battling illnesses that threatened their lives unless they could undergo
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A black law
Sedition seems to be the ‘crime’ of the times — even as the demand for the state to respect fundamental
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‘Pemra can’t regulate web TV & OTT’
High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: A Senate panel on Monday observed that the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA)
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WDF opposes capital punishment for sexual abuse
High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: Civil society and women rights activists have condemned a resolution passed by the lower
Read MoreTajikistan plans to cut military service term by 6 months
(File photo). Tajik conscripts are drafted to the army twice a year. DUSHANBE — Tajikistan is aiming to cut the
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CPJ denounces ‘absurd’ charges against Tajik journalist
High Asia Herald Report The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Tajikistan authorities to immediately release journalist Daler Sharifov
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Alzhir – a place of remembrance in Kazakhstan
Situated in the center of Kazakhstan, ALZHIR (Акмолинский лагерь жен изменников родины, “the Akmola camp of wives of traitors to the homeland”) was a
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100 – II
Raza Naeem on the modernism of Muhammad Hasan Askari (1919 – 1978) It is often stated that a new age
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Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100-III
In Askari’s view, the West became victim to depravity in its quest for progress Raza Naeem on the modernism of
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