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Articles by Bantirani Patro

Women under Taliban rule: Real life mirrors dystopian fiction

FILE - Afghan students queue at one of Kabul University's gates in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 26, 2022. Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said on, Dec. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Updated on Sep 2, 2024 13:22 IST

With the PTI ban announcement, Pakistan now stands on the brink of a precipice

Parliamentarians of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, carry posters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, during a protest outside the Parliament house in Islamabad on July 18, 2024. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

Updated on Jul 20, 2024 15:45 IST

“Azm-e-Istehkam”: Unpacking Pakistan’s much-touted counterterror operation

Kishtwar: Security personnel stand guard in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, Monday, June 24, 2024. (PTI Photo

Updated on Jul 9, 2024 02:30 IST

Justice robbed by mobs: Blasphemy in Pakistan

Women and children look at a spot where a Muslim mob lynched and burned a man over allegations that he had desecrated Islam's holy book, the Quran, in Madyan in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Friday, June 21, 2024. The attackers also torched a police station which had held the man in Madyan and burned police vehicles parked there, according to local police official Rahim Ullah. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

Updated on Jun 25, 2024 02:30 IST

Explosions and intelligence-based operations: Pakistan’s vicious cycle

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand at the Pakistan-Afghanistan Torkham border crossing in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2021. (Representative Image/AFP)

Updated on Jun 13, 2024 02:00 IST

Amidst Pakistan’s ‘education emergency, torching of girls’ schools is alarming

What explains the recent upshot in attacks on girls' schools, especially in the two Waziristans that border Afghanistan and have been former strongholds of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)?

Updated on Jun 4, 2024 03:45 IST

PoK protests triggered by high power tariff, flour prices, privileges for elite

Protests erupt in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (Photo - ANI)

Updated on May 21, 2024 04:00 IST

Afghan refugees face deportation from Pakistan amidst international neglect

FILE - Afghan families onboard a truck head toward a border crossing point in Torkham, Pakistan, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. For more than 1 million Afghans who fled war and poverty to Pakistan, these are uncertain times. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad, File)

Updated on Apr 29, 2024 17:51 IST

Afghanistan is in a state of gender apartheid, and we need to act now

Afghan women chant slogans in protest of the closure of universities to women by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 22, 2022

Updated on Apr 14, 2024 11:34 IST

The China connection to Pakistan’s internal security troubles

The Majeed Brigade of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack on PNS Siddique located in Turbat, Balochistan (X)

Updated on Mar 29, 2024 09:08 IST

Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan show its fraying patience with the Taliban

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan Asim Munir, and General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), along with others attend the funeral of Lieutenant Colonel Syed Kashif Ali, 39 and Captain Muhammad Ahmed Badar, 23, after according to the military, militants attacked a military post in Mir Ali, North Waziristan district in Pakistan near Afghanistan early on Saturday using a vehicle laden with explosives as well as suicide bombs, during the funeral at Chaklala Garrison, Rawalpindi, Pakistan March 17, 2024. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)/Handout via REUTERS

Updated on Mar 22, 2024 16:39 IST

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