Pakistanis

Nearly 55% Pakistanis favour Taliban-style government in the country, shows survey

Almost 31 percent - one out of three - were against such a government. The recent survey was carried out among a sample of 2,170 men and women in urban and rural areas of all four provinces of Pakistan

Coronavirus killing Black Britons at twice the rate as Whites; South Asians second-most at risk in UK

Black people in England and Wales are twice as likely to die from the coronavirus as White people, even accounting for differences in class and in some underlying health measures, according to official figures released Thursday, laying bare an extraordinary gap in the toll of the coronavirus

Refugee policies in Brazil, Uganda, Turkey offer lessons for India, but realities of influx, political contexts cannot be ignored

In the first part of this series, we analysed refugee policy in three countries that, like India, have also not signed the RC51 (and its1967 Protocol) – Bangladesh, Lebanon, and Jordan. In this part, we will explore the refugee policy regimes of key countries in the Global South that have – Brazil, Turkey, and Uganda.

Opening up India's borders for refugees isn't a zero sum game, nation can learn from Bangladesh, Jordan, Lebanon

Over the years, despite no national framework, India has followed a relatively generous, though ad-hoc, approach to incoming refugees. Considering this strong historical record, the recent Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) building on the 2015 amendments to the Foreigner Act Rules, appears particularly arbitrary.

Imran Khan, on International Anti-corruption Day, tells Pakistanis living abroad to learn from Indian diaspora

Addressing a ceremony to mark International Anti-corruption Day, Imran Khan said Pakistan was facing an existential threat due to rampant corruption.

US designates three Pakistanis linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba as global terrorists; Abdul Rehman al-Dakhil specially designated

The US has designated three Pakistanis linked to the LeT, the outfit responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack, as global terrorists to shut down the militant group's financial network and curtail its ability to raise funds to carry out violent terrorist attacks.

Kashmir constable quits job over 'conscience call'; video goes viral on social media

A video of a constable announcing his resignation from the Jammu and Kashmir police on the "call of his conscience" against the violence in the valley, has gone viral on social media even as the police said they are checking its veracity.