Pakistan's government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. The country's caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said the crackdown was not aimed at Afghans and
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Iran has a long history of political activism and protest
Iranian citizens have been risking their lives to protest the nation’s authoritarian regime for over nine weeks, and despite the bloodshed amid a crackdown by security forces, they show no signs of backing down. According to academics, the protest movement galvanized by the killing of Mahsa Amini—a 21-year-old Kurdish Iranian
Iran protesters return to streets, defying deadly crackdown
Protests flared again in Iran Saturday over the death of a woman in morality police custody, despite a crackdown by security forces in which at least 41 people have died, according to official figures. The main reformist party inside Iran called for the repeal of the mandatory Islamic dress code that
Why did Pakistan crackdown in Bangladesh, Balochistan in March?
It may be coincidental that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has a weakness for the month of March! The Islamic nation-state possibly felt the month of March was a ‘holy’ month or lucky month for the ruthless crackdown in Balochistan and after 23 years sadistically repeated it in Bangladesh. Maybe the fortune-tellers
Myanmar military intensifies crackdown on journalists
As the imprisonment of scribes and other democratic activists under arbitrary laws becomes a new normal in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the Switzerland based media rights body Press Emblem Campaign urges the military regime in Nay Pie Taw to release all media workers unreservedly. The military junta led by general