The situation with the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan was one of the main topics of the first G20 conference on gender equality. It takes place in Italy. Prime Minister of the Republic, Mario Draghi, in his address to delegates, called on to do everything possible to protect the fundamental rights of Afghan women, especially the right to education.
In the past month, the 8th Prime Minister (PM) of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin faced increasing pressure to step down after politicians from the United Malays National Organisation or UMNO — the largest party in the ruling coalition (Pakatan Nasional) — withdrew their support. The PM later acknowledged that he did not have a majority and attempted to woo the opposition by promising political and electoral reforms. The attempt failed...
Residents took out a rally in Swat on Tuesday to protest the brutal killing of 14 people that included women and children, belonging to Khwazakhela tehsil in Karachi on Aug 14. The incident took place when unidentified persons attacked a minibus with a grenade. The vehicle was carrying about 20 members of a family, who were out to participate in a wedding ceremony. (Dawn)
CIA Director William Burns reportedly held a secret meeting in Afghanistan Monday (23/08/21) with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar - the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the militant group toppled the government in Kabul. President Biden sent the top US spy to meet Baradar in Kabul on Monday as the administration continues efforts to evacuate American citizens and allies amid chaos at the airport in the fallen capital...
On August 17, the Crimea Info news agency reported: “Five residents of Crimea and Sevastopol were detained on suspicion of participation in the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia. This was reported by Interfax with reference to its own source. “The searches were carried out, they were detained on suspicion of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization,” the agency's interlocutor said.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday, 16 August 2021, launched the Single National Curriculum at a ceremony in Islamabad. He spoke about how cultural imposition is tantamount to ‘mental slavery,’ saying that Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery.” His comments came as the Taliban effectively took control of Afghanistan, after days of rapid advances in the country
News: Aljazeera reported that, "The idea that the coronavirus pandemic originated accidentally via Chinese laboratory workers has surfaced again”, following a documentary by Danish TV on the 12th of August, 2021in which Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins