India with the highest TB burden globally has made a drastic shift recently to reach the unreached people with free TB services. Indian government has launched a 100 days focussed campaign (7 December 2024 to 24 March 2025) to intensify progress to #endTB through improved case detection, reductio

The year 2024 draws to an end with media safety under attack in Pakistan and the space for free expression tightly controlled both offline and online. The year was a mix of political protests, internet shutdowns, and policies and legislation, both proposed and passed, that would increase policing

 A grim reality: January’s dark legacy in Kashmir. While the world celebrates the New Year, Kashmir remembers decades of suffering. January has become synonymous with violence, massacres and human rights violations that continue to shape the region’s history,” this was stat

Bangladesh currently stands at a pivotal juncture in its political development, triggered by the chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s proposal to reduce the minimum voting age from 18 to 17. Although immediate criticism has centred on potential administrative burdens and the possibility of postpo

On this Christmas, in the interest of spreading the message (of Love) of Jesus Christ, the missionaries of US-Christianity (Evangelicals)  ought to take a vow to Christianize the rest of the world.  Though Christians (especially the West led by the USA) are the most powerful c

Ali Hasan Zehri, whose original name is Ali Hassan Brohi, is from Nawabshah in Zardari’s home province of Sindh. His wife Samina Zehri, also from Sindh, was earlier made a Balochistan senator.The oath-taking of the newest member in the Balochistan cabinet with the backing of the powerful In

family values' is threatening gender equality, even as human rights activists call upon ending gender-based violence and protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights of all girls and women and other gender diverse communities.

 One example of this is the regressive Gene

While on my recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan, I visited several frontline positions of the Peshmerga forces, where they are facing the Iraqi Army and active ISIS cells. Firstly, I visited Brigade 14 headquarters near Dibak, approximately 60 km from the Kurdistan capital, Erbil. There, I met with B

Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations spoke during seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly on February 7, 2024, “Although peace is the “raison d’être” of the United Nations, it is the one thing missing most dramatically from the wor

"Death from TB is caused by human choice. It is caused by human-built systems. And so that is terrifying and horrifying and deeply upsetting. It means we are not doing a good job of assigning equal value to every human life," had said the famous American author John Green at a panel dis

 Mr Shoresh Ismail Abdulla is the Minister of Peshmerga affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and one of the most capable forces in the region, which pushed back ISIS from its strongholds. Currentl

Youth are critical change-makers not only as future prescribers and users of antimicrobials but also as influencers of the behaviour of their peers, parents and community. Strengthening youth engagement in our response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can go a long way in addressing this global

Human Rights Day, celebrated annually on December 10, is an occasion to promote the protection of human rights worldwide. It commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. This declaration outlines fundame

In the developed countries of the world, the distribution of rights is not based on race, color, religion, minority or majority, the respect is based on humanity.But still there is a clear difference between the rights of the minority and the majority in Pakistan.

Pakistan's minorit

If we fail to find all cases of an infectious disease (and put them on care), then it will keep spreading. "We are not able to find all TB cases as of now. We had an estimated 1.1 million new TB cases in 2023 in Indonesia as per the latest WHO Global TB Report 2024. But the highest we could