Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch says over 2,000 Afghan evacuees in detention in UAE

Human Rights Watch says over 2,000 Afghan evacuees in detention in UAE

 Human Rights Watch accused Emirati authorities on Wednesday of arbitrarily detaining for more than 15 months as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees who have not qualified for resettlement elsewhere. Many of the Afghans in Emirates Humanitarian City are suffering from…
Blast in northern Afghanistan kills at least one

Blast in northern Afghanistan kills at least one

An explosion during an award ceremony for journalists in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has killed at least one person and wounded five others, according to a Taliban police spokesman. The explosion took place at the Tabian Farhang centre in Mazar-i-Sharif,…
Afghanistan universities reopen but women still barred by Taliban

Afghanistan universities reopen but women still barred by Taliban

Male students have trickled back to their classes after universities reopened in Afghanistan following a winter break, but women remain barred by the ruling Taliban. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed…
Balochistan: Nine security officers killed in suspected suicide attack

Balochistan: Nine security officers killed in suspected suicide attack

Nine security officers were killed and at least 13 others were wounded today, Moday, during a bomb attack in southwest Pakistan. The blast happened in Balochistan province when the officers were returning to the provincial capital Quetta, after policing the…
Fleeing Taliban Ruling, Afghans are dying amid International silence

Fleeing Taliban Ruling, Afghans are dying amid International silence

At least 80 Afghan men, women and children lost their lives last month in a shipwreck off the Italian coast as they attempted to find a new haven. The Afghan migrants, fleeing the Taliban regime at home and feeling neglected…
Shia Rights Watch documents over 40 attacks on Shias worldwide

Shia Rights Watch documents over 40 attacks on Shias worldwide

The international organization of Shia rights watch, has recorded 41 terrorist attacks against Shia Muslims and the followers of Ahl Al Beit (peace be upon them) in 6 different countries worldwide during the past month of February, confirming the escalating…
Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves ‘four dead’ and thousands in cells

Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves ‘four dead’ and thousands in cells

Refugees are reportedly dying in Pakistani prisons, and children are being arrested and tied together with ropes, as a wave of detentions and deportations spreads fearamong the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have crossed the border since the Taliban…
Afghan refugees protest in Islamabad against UNHCR’s failure to review their cases

Afghan refugees protest in Islamabad against UNHCR’s failure to review their cases

Dozens of Afghan migrants in Islamabad on Monday said they have protested for more than three weeks in front of the Society for Human Rights and Prisoners’ Aid (SHARP) Office, however, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has…
Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in Mazar-i-Sharif carries out charitable activities

Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in Mazar-i-Sharif carries out charitable activities

The office of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, distributed large quantities of winter clothes to dozens of students of religious sciences and orphaned children. The office said…
At least 60 migrants including newborn dead after boat falls apart off coast of Italy

At least 60 migrants including newborn dead after boat falls apart off coast of Italy

At least 60 migrants have been killed after the vessel carrying them sunk off the coast of Italy. The Italian coast guard spotted about 30 bodies after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas off the southern coast of…
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