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    Crime in Islamabad blamed on its weakest residents

    The police’s statement on zero robberies in Islamabad must be taken with a pinch of salt. After all, even a lawmaker's home robbed at...
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    E-governance

    What will a UNDP digital strategy to achieve the SDGs look like?

    Aimed at ensuring an equitable digital future and with the experience of managing a range of development solutions from communities of practice, UNDP announced...
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    Agriculture

    Peasants marginalized by big farmers

    Changing inequalities in farmland ownership and cultivation have reduced the smallholder or peasant share of food production. ‘Land grabs’, new laws and policies have...
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    Civil society

    Nation state or state-sponsored group behind ICRC cyber-attack?

    A month has passed since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000...
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    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan: A health system is on the brink of collapse

    Over two decades, Afghanistan witnessed an increase in life expectancy. Maternal, new-born and child deaths, too, reduced dramatically. All that seems to have been...
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    Governance

    ‘Our common agenda’: Guterres’ open door to corporate capture of the UN

    UN member states need to reject multistake-holderism that reinforces the role of problematic exclusive membership clubs (OECD, G20 etc) and enables corporate capture of...
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    Children

    ASER-Pakistan report says crisis of equity exacerbated impact of COVID-19 pandemic on schooling

    ASER-Pakistan's report on the education status and learning outcomes of children in the five to 16 years’ age bracket in rural districts of Pakistan...
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    Agriculture

    Sri Lanka air force to help farmers harvest paddy

    The air force led community service project will undertake paddy harvesting of low income paddy farmers to help them save on labour costs they...
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    UN Warns of Mounting Crises in Afghanistan as Security Incidents Surge 57% Under Taliban Control

    In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.
    Civil society

    Sri Lanka’s Prisons in Crisis: Overcrowding, Mental Health Collapse, and Calls for Comprehensive Reform

    Sri Lanka’s prison system is under intense scrutiny following multiple deaths in custody.
    Afghanistan

    Wildlife in Peril: Illegal Hunting and Bird Trade Defy Taliban Bans Across Afghanistan

    The persistence of illegal hunting and trade underscores a tension between traditional practices, economic necessity, and modern conservation imperatives.

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    UN Warns of Mounting Crises in Afghanistan as Security Incidents Surge 57% Under Taliban Control

    In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.
    Civil society

    Sri Lanka’s Prisons in Crisis: Overcrowding, Mental Health Collapse, and Calls for Comprehensive Reform

    Sri Lanka’s prison system is under intense scrutiny following multiple deaths in custody.
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    Bot Armies March into Bangladesh Politics: Digital Tools Reshape Influence in Post-Uprising Era

    Political analysts argue that bot armies reflect deeper issues: a polarized society where winning the narrative matters more than policy substance. “Politics cannot be done by going viral with bot armies,” one parliamentarian remarked, emphasizing the need for authentic engagement.
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    Health

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    Agri-business

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    Sri Lanka’s Prisons in Crisis: Overcrowding, Mental Health Collapse, and Calls for Comprehensive Reform

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    UN Warns of Mounting Crises in Afghanistan as Security Incidents Surge 57% Under Taliban Control

    In a sobering assessment released this week, the United Nations has painted a complex portrait of Afghanistan under Taliban governance, where a dramatic increase in security incidents coincides with fragile stability, devastating cross-border violence with Pakistan, and a deepening humanitarian and human rights crisis.
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