News: The European Commission recently presented a report proposing five different visions for what the European Union might look like in 2025. The report took center stage at the EU Summit in Brussels alongside issues of migration, security, defense and the economy. Along with suggesting that member states could integrate at different speeds, the white paper raised the possibility that the EU could reverse much of the path it has…

Tanzania media outlets again reported on ongoing torturing of Muslims detainees suspected of terrorism. The opposition MP for Arusha Urban (Chadema) Mr Godbless Lema who was detained in Kisongo remand at Arusha City,

On 27 January 2017 Idigul Kosimzoda, a chairman of the Committee for Women and Family Affairs to the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, reported at a press conference that her committee periodically conducts raids with the participation of law enforcement agencies whose purpose is to identify the “women wearing non-Tajik clothing, that are alien to our culture”.

News: Last week, at the Council of Ministers’ meeting before the formal opening of the 13th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz declared that CPEC could “galvanize trade opportunities with the ECO region” by acting as a catalyst to boost intra-regional trade through greater connectivity. He stressed that CPEC could help the entire ECO region emerge as a “formidable economic bloc” in the…