Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Options for the TTP

Afghan Taliban

PESHAWAR: In the wake of the Afghan Taliban’s lightning takeover of Kabul on August 16, President Dr Arif Alvi gave a television interview in which he urged the PTI led federal government to announce amnesty for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a loose conglomeration of various militant groups engaged in a bloody conflict with the state … Read more

More than half a billion pushed into extreme poverty due to health costs: UN

UN

UNITED NATIONS: The coronavirus pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health Coverage, according to reports released on Sunday from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank, which reveal more than half a billion people are being pushed into extreme poverty because they have to pay for health … Read more