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As the Nawaz Sharif government continued heavy-handed action against PTI protesters, Amnesty International urged Islamabad to “immediately and unconditionally” release hundreds of opposition activists and “lift restrictions on their movement. In a statement the AI asked...

Colombia’s guerrilla Organization, FARC and Afghanistan’s militant group Taliban are the biggest organizations, engaged in terror financing through slush money, obtained from drug trafficking, a US Counter Narcotics official said Friday. “Afghan Talban are world’s biggest...

Amnesty International, a leading human rights organization, and Committee to Protect Journalists have urged Pakistani authorities to immediately revoke a travel ban on journalist Cyril Almeida, following reports that he was barred from leaving the country...

Some 85 peace activists from Indian State of West Bengal have deplored attempts to ‘ deny the legitimacy of the struggle of Kashmiri people’ and called for negotiations involving the Kashmiris for last peace in the...

Former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz said Friday that they would not be supporting Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton in this year’s race for the White House. “We are not making any endorsement...

The US presidential Election 2016 continues to generate both interest and confusion. Adding a new dimension are reports and polls that both the candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are among the least popular major-party candidates...

The haunting image of a shocked, dazed little boy pulled out of the rubble of a destroyed home in Aleppo has sent shock waves across the world. But so was the case last year with another...

Seeking to inject a raft of pressing scientific, climate, health and technological challenges into the 2016 election debate, a coalition of more than 50 nonpartisan science and technology organizations has posed 20 high-stakes questions, asking candidates...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based independent watchdog body, joined other Press organizations in condemning Monday’s terrorist attack at the civil hospital in Quetta that killed at least 70 people, including two journalists...

Hundreds of Kashmiri-Americans Sunday staged a demonstration in front of the Indian Missions to the United Nations in New York to condemn the killings of protesters, and called on the U.N. to implement it resolutions on...