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November 18, 2020
A Year After His Disappearance, Pakistani Activist Granted Visit With Daughter

Talia Khattak says she was finally allowed to briefly meet with her father, Idris Khattak. The Pakistani human rights campaigner mysteriously disappeared last year but was later charged with spying under a colonial-era law.
November 11, 2020
Saudi Labor Reforms Still Leave Millions Exposed To Abuse, Exploitation

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis and Afghans are among millions of foreign workers likely to benefit from the easing of restrictions in Saudi Arabia's "kafala" visa sponsorship system. But 3.7 million domestic workers will be left in what critics have compared to a modern form of slavery.
October 26, 2020
Reports Of 'Brutal' Beatings At Bosnian Border Spark Concerns For Migrants Seeking EU Refuge

While EU leaders mull a controversial new system for migration, disturbing reports are emerging of migrants being beaten and abused by Croatian police as they seek to enter the European Union via Bosnia-Herzegovina.
October 18, 2020
Land Ownership Disputes Weigh On Pakistan’s Pashtun Heartland

Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of conflict in the western region.
October 17, 2020
Former Pakistani PM Accuses Country’s Army Chief Of Toppling His Government

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has accused the country’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2018 elections.
October 16, 2020
Turkish And Israeli Drones' Big Impact On Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Turkish as well as Israeli and cheaper Russian-made drones are being used to powerful effect during Azerbaijan's attacks in and around the country's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
October 16, 2020
U.S. Afghan Peace Envoy Says Taliban Agrees To Bring Down Violence

The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan says he has struck an agreement with the Taliban to reduce the number of casualties in the country as a wave of violence hampered ongoing intra-Afghan peace talks in Qatar.
October 15, 2020
Fears Mount Over Afghan Civilians 'Trapped' In Helmand's Capital

Concerns are rising for the fate of tens of thousands of civilians caught up in battles between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand.
October 15, 2020
Australian Police Will Not Charge ABC Journalist Over 'Afghan Files'

A journalist with Australia's national broadcaster ABC will not be charged over 2017 reports that revealed the country's involvement in potential war crimes in Afghanistan, federal police confirmed on October 15.
October 14, 2020
Commentary: How The Pashtun Rights Movement Has Inspired Others In Pakistan

An example of a hybrid regime is Pakistan, characterized by an ambiguous institutional makeup with a disproportionate predominance of military over civilian affairs.
October 14, 2020
Residents In Pakistan Tribal Region Continue Protest Demanding Release Of Detainees

A sit-in protest by residents of Pakistan’s remote North Waziristan tribal district continued for a second consecutive day on October 14 as they demanded the release of all the locals allegedly detained by security forces following a roadside bombing last month.
October 14, 2020
Report: COVID-19 Used As Pretext To Crack Down On Internet Freedom

Internet freedom has declined for the 10th consecutive year as governments around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic as a "cover" to expand online surveillance, crack down on dissent, and build new technological systems to control society, Freedom House says in a new report.

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