Russia warns US it will target US-backed fighters in Syria if provoked on September 22, 2017MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday it had warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where US special forces and US-backed militia were operating if its own forces came under fire from them, something it said had already happened twice. Russia was referring to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish […]
UNIC hosts briefing on Universal Periodic Review on September 21, 2017ISLAMABAD: Christine Chung, Human Rights Officer at the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva, gave a briefing on the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Information Centre (UNIC). Talking to lawmakers, media, civil society representatives and university students, Chung said the Universal Periodic Review is a unique inter-governmental mechanism of […]
My dear father a eulogy on September 21, 2017September 7 was my father’s 89th birthday, a person extraordinaire. Born in Kasur, he was the son of a local merchant whose forefathers, who were traders, migrated in the 7th century from Aden and finally settled in Surat, Gujarat. The clan stayed there for almost 1,000 years before moving to and settling in Kasur. After […]