The popular opposition leader was dragged from a courtroom and ordered held for another eight days on new corruption charges, outraging his supporters and deepening the country’s political turmoil
The popular opposition leader and former prime minister was dragged from a courtroom on Tuesday and arrested on corruption charges, deepening the country’s political turmoil
The arrest, which marks a dramatic escalation on Pakistan’s political scene, drew nationwide condemnation from supporters of the popular opposition leader
Pneumonia is a silent pandemic that causes more deaths than the coronavirus, but receives neither the attention nor funding necessary to combat it. Around 700,000 children under the age of five die every year from it, mostly in poor countries
UNICEF says the floods damaged most of the water pipelines systems in affected areas, forcing more than 5.4 million people to rely solely on contaminated water
While activists in some places celebrated political and legal advances, observances also pointed to repression in countries such as Afghanistan and Iran
The newly formed Tehreek-e-Jihad militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place on a bridge in the Sibi district of Baluchistan province
The tragedy has highlighted the lesser-known migration route from Turkey to Italy. It also brought into focus hardening Italian and European migration policies
Pakistani Sen. Mushtaq Ahmed Khan tweeted Friday that the two brothers had reached Islamabad airport. “There was no trial, no court proceedings, no charges against them”, he wrote on Twitter.