Pakistan has finalized a $63 million education package for Afghan students and plans to establish a university campus in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, a senior official said on Monday. The Ministry of Education and Professional Training package “includes 3,000 scholarships, free training with stipends for 5,000 Afghan nationals. It also...
In August 2021, Afghan taxi driver Hamid Safi found a two-month old boy alone in Kabul airport, amid the chaos of the US troop withdrawal. He and his wife took the baby in and cared for him, as a social media campaign to find the family was under way. Now, seven-month-old Sohail Ahmadi has been […]
Dr. Saleyha Ahsan, who lost her father last year to COVID-19, called for the resignation of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This was after he held a party and made jokes about it, in violation of the Covid-19 bans in the country. The Mirror newspaper reported that several parties with 40 to 50 people were […]
Three Supreme Court justices in India are launching an investigation into threats by some Hindu extremists against the Muslim minority in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The announcement came after Anjana Prakash, a retired Supreme Court justice, filed a petition. The incendiary remarks were reportedly made at a Hindu Religious Parliament l...
Top U.S. infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday reiterated the stark warning that COVID-19 will probably infect most Americans eventually, but added a caveat. He said “if you’re vaccinated and if you’re boosted, the chances of you getting sick are very, very low.” At a Senate hearing Tuesday, Fauci said that unvaccinated peo...
Democracy defenders on Wednesday cheered a ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that invalidated Republican-drawn state legislative district maps. A majority of the justices found these were unconstitutionally gerrymandered against the will of the state’s voters. In a 4-3 decision, they ordered the maps redrawn, as the GOP-controlled Ohio R...
A Muslim civil rights group today called on Alabama State Representative Mike Holmes to drop his membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “It is unacceptable for a lawmaker, whose duty it is to represent all constituents in his district, to be a member of an organization that honors traitors and white supremacists,” said Ibrahim [&helli...
The United States on Wednesday urged an investigation after an 80-year-old Palestinian-American was found dead in the occupied West Bank, following arrest by Israel. The mayor of the village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah, told AFP that Omar Abdulmajeed Asad’s body was still in handcuffs after his death. In Washington, US State Departme...
More than 60 U.S. organizations issued a joint statement Wednesday, calling for the total elimination of the country’s land-based nuclear missiles. They warned that the weapons are both an enormous waste of money and, most crucially, an existential threat to humankind. The advocacy groups Roots Action, Just Foreign Policy, Code Pink, Jew...
