Alarm Bells

Pakistan has reached the point where monkeypox can no longer be treated as a passing scare: the warning signs now point to a wider public health failure that the state has seen before and still not repaired. The trigger may have come from Khairpur, where seven newborns were infected, and four died, yet the meaning […]

Pakistan’s Foreign Office, in a sharply worded statement, has expressed alarm over a new communication by UN experts on the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir. The language from Geneva leaves little room for ambiguity. Experts describe “serious human rights violations following the Pahalgam saga, documenting arbitrary detentions, forced evictions, home demolitions and sweeping internet restrictions that […]