Seeking economic guidance from the Western nations is a betrayal On Wednesday April 9, Pakistan's Finance Minister, Ishaq Dar, and his team attend a meeting of the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue's working group on economy and finance. The team accompanying Mr Dar includes Secretary Economic Affairs Division Nargis Sethi, governor State Bank of Pakistan, secretary finance and the prime minister's special assistant on economic affairs. This meeting is ahead of critical…

News: 35 Uighur Muslims who were kept waiting for 18 days in transit at Istanbul Ataturk Airport since fleeing to Turkey from China on March 25 were finally given permission to enter the country on 12th of April. The group, which included pregnant women and children, had arrived in Turkey in an attempt to escape persecution in their homeland of East Turkestan (Xinjiang), China. One child had been rushed to…

News Two U.S. Senators, Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia), wrote an article in the Washington Post on the 11th April entitled, "Why the Senate report on the CIA's interrogation program should be made public". Sen. Dianne Feinstein chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that issued the report, which, she said previously, "exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. It chronicles…

News On the 8th of April, the news site "allAfrica.com" ran an article entitled, "Nigerian Women Dying to Give Birth" that discussed the high rate of maternal deaths in the country. It began with the story of Nkechi, a 9-month pregnant woman in Nigeria who as a result of successive delays in accessing adequate healthcare after going into labour lost her baby and bled to death. Those delays included enduring…