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Pakistan is, as is known, in a financial crisis and staring at bankruptcy. According to available sources including the Economic Times, the current currency reserve is the lowest in the last 8 years with only $5 billion and the economy of Pakistan is marked with high inflation and shortages of foods including flour leading to protests. The current forex reserve can cover imports over only a month while it has to pay $8.3 billion to external debtors in the next three months. The country is making efforts to get bailout support from international lenders including International Monetary Fund to solve…

The Russia-Ukraine war has been going on for more than ten months but there is no convincing signal from any party directly or indirectly involved in the war for its ending. Definitely, the possibility of talks-based solution of the crisis, rendered the most sought suitable option, increased several times. Positively saying, Russia, Ukraine and the United States have expressed the intention for talks but it was not given the needed emphasis by any party to resolve the war that has up until now killed thousands in Ukraine, displaced millions from Ukraine and brought economic and other consequences to Ukraine, Russia…

The Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, as is known, proposed a judiciary reform plan leading to widespread protests in Israel for days. According to available sources including the BBC, the newly formed government proposed a reform plan that includes the granting of power to the parliament to overturn Supreme Court decisions with a simple majority vote, the control of the appointment of judges and the reduction of the independence of legal advisers. Along with opposition parties, many have been carrying out protest rallies against the proposed reform plan in several cities of Israel including Tel Aviv, the capital city…

Brazil is, as is known, in political trouble for several weeks. The latest political upheaval resulted from the presidential elections held in October last year that led to the victory of former president Lula da Silva by a small margin. According to available sources, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, disputed the election and his supporters carried out protests creating havoc in the capital city of Brazil, camped outside army bases to encourage a coup d’état and stormed Congress, the presidential palace and Supreme Court. Post-electoral protests and chaos in Brazil have led to strict measures by the newly elected and…

To Whom It May Concern, Bangladesh has taken an incentivized step to bring criminals back to social lives. According to available sources, the concerned authorities have offered pirates, robbers and other criminals especially those who were involved with poaching and other criminal activities in Sundarban and other areas in Bangladesh to end their criminal activities and come back to social lives several times. Notably, the first offer was made to the pirates of Sundarban in 2016. Up until now, the step has brought several hundred pirates to social lives with financial and legal support, along with an amnesty from the…

To Whom It May Concern, Supplies to the city of Stepanakert of Nagorno-Karabakh are, you may know, often stopped because of the blockade of the land route leading to difficulties for inhabitants to buy food and other goods. A few days ago, according to available sources including the BBC, the Lachin Corridor was blocked by Azerbaijan leading to the cut-off of supplies to Stepanakert. Notably, the only land road that links Armenia and Azerbaijan was also blocked in the past. It was blocked by the Eco-activists of Azerbaijan in December last year causing the near stoppage of supplies of food,…

To Whom It May Concern, Fake medicines, as is known, resulted in the death of seven children in Egypt in the last month. According to available sources including Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, several children died as a result of mistakenly given fake ceftriaxone, an antibiotic that is used to treat bacterial infections, in Egypt. In one case, a child aged two years with a high temperature died after being injected with counterfeit drugs by hospital doctors. The positive side is that the concerned Egyptian authorities in the city of Kafr Ziyat carried out a raid on a factory that produces counterfeit antibiotics.…

To Whom It May Concern, The Afghan government has, as is well-known, imposed significant limitations on the lives of women. After coming to power through a war against the Ghani government last year, the Taliban government has in the meantime taken several hardcore measures against the rights of women in education, profession and other terms. Girls’ education especially at the secondary and higher secondary levels was banned a few months ago and significant restrictions were imposed on women’s professions. Among other significant measures, women’s education at universities was banned a few days ago. Continued suppressive measures against women have consequently…

As is known, a series of border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan that took place last week led to the death of around ten and injuries of fifteen. According to available sources, a fresh round of cross-border clashes erupted last Thursday between Afghanistan forces and Pakistan forces at the Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing, one of the key formal border crossings between the countries, following earlier clashes in the last week. But the exact cause of the recent border clash is unclear. The initial incident of cross- border clash is said to be happened after Pakistan demanded Afghan border forces stop…

To Whom It May Concern, As is known, self-immolation has recently become more frequent among Iraqi Kurdish women. Self-immolation, or burning oneself to death, is rendered a common cause of suicidal death among women in northern Iraq. According to available sources including Al-Monitor, around five hundred Kurdish women die of self-immolation each year in Iraq. Since the early 1990s, several thousand Kurdish women have died of self-immolation. In 2015 alone, the Kurdistan Regional Government listed 125 deaths of women caused by self-burning to death. But the tendency of self-immolation has increased among young women especially within 14-30 years of age in…