As the government announced a state of emergency across the country on August 5, villagers hosed down vegetation in rural areas threatened by wildfires near Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia
Afghanistan’s Security Situation Is Deteriorating, And Some Predict A Civil War. A Similar Violence In The 1990s Prompted Millions Of Afghans To Migrate To Neighbouring Nations, Especially Pakistan, Which Has Long Welcomed Three Million Afghan Refugees
Zahid Quraishi, A Pakistani American Muslim, Has Become The Country’s First Muslim Federal Judge. Judge Quraishi’s Nomination To The United States District Court For The District Of New Jersey Was Accepted By The US Senate In June After President Joe Biden Nominated Him
As The Number Of Immunizations Increases Around The World And Countries Become More Accessible To Travel, A New Issue Has Arisen. Many People, Particularly In Developing Nations, Are Forced To Use Vaccines That Are Not Licenced In North America, Europe, Or Several Middle Eastern Countries. This Has A Negative Influence On People’s Livelihoods
Sania Nishtar, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation, speaks with journalists about the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at United Nations
On June 17, outside Balochistan’s Provincial Assembly building in Quetta, Pakistan, opposition MPs staged a protest..Kateryna Handziuk, an anti-corruption campaigner and public official who died three months after being seriously injured in an acid assault, was remembered at a demonstration in Kyiv, Ukraine
Pakistan, female journalists are often seen on camera, but the work can be demanding. VOA Peshawar’s Umer Farooq encounters two women who are breaking down barriers
Pakistan launched a drive on Thursday to issue smart identity cards to some 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees, in what will be a vast national campaign to verify data and improve access to critical services
People over 60 in the city of Karachi received COVID-19 jabs on March 10 as part of the second phase of Pakistan’s vaccination campaign..Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated their loss at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan Valley on March 9
Highly crowded Lahore city in Pakistan has the same crowding issues of many urban environments. To help ease the problem, the government plans to build a new city just to the North, but that has some residents worried