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In this piece, the authors, Annie Pforzheimer, a former U.S. diplomat who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan; and Jason Howk is a former U.S. military officer who is the Director of the Global Friends of Afghanistan, who has focused since 2002 [...]

The streets of Bangladesh have seen their share of bloodshed over the past week as more than 100 protesters were killed during mass student demonstrations against a quota system that reserved 30 percent of government positions for Bangladesh Liberation War veterans and their descendants. Although the quota system was largely scaled back by the country’s [...]

Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar said on Sunday that Pakistan had lodged a complaint with the German government in the wake of yesterday’s attack by a “gang of extremists” on the Pakistani Consulate in Frankfurt. His post on X (formerly Twitter) said the German government was urged to fulfill its responsibilities [...]

The Punjab Counter Terrorist Department (CTD) reported that they arrested Aminul Haq, terrorist and right-hand man to Osama Bin Ladin, in Pakistan on Friday, according to local media. Usman Gondal, the deputy inspector general for the CTD, addressed an audience in Lahore discussing the matter. Gondal said that Aminul Haq was arrested in Sarai Alamgir [...]

Bangladesh police arrested one of the country’s most senior opposition party leaders Friday in Dakar following days of unrest and protests. Police have not provided details on the arrest, but Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is facing hundreds of charges, according to AFP. This comes as police fail to [...]

Six people were killed in Bangladesh and hundreds injured on Tuesday during the ongoing students’ protest against the government job quota requirements for children of Bangladesh freedom fighters, according to local media. The government has ordered the indefinite closure of schools and colleges while the country is engulfed in deadly protest. The protest sparked in [...]

Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar said in a press conference on Monday that the Pakistani government is planning to ban former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Terheek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and press treason charges against Khan under Article 6 of the Pakistani Constitution. Tarar said that there is credible evidence to ban PTI, taking into account [...]

Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday released its decision to retain the 30 percent government job quota for the children of freedom fighters in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. In the judgement delivered by Justice Khizir Hayat, the court found that both the judiciary and all authorities of the state machinery were bound by previous authority [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday overturned the conviction of ex-PM Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for violating the country’s marriage laws in 2018, according to Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panthuja, who celebrated on social media. Khan and his wife were sentenced to seven years for violating the law by marrying before the [...]

Edited by: James Joseph | Managing Editor for Long-Form Content The author, a Pakistani law student studying in the UK, argues that Pakistan’s judicial system is undergoing a transformative digital revolution aimed at improving efficiency, transparency, and accessibility, through initiatives such as the National Judicial Automation Program and e-Court systems. Despite facing challenges like limited [...]