Vienna [Austria], March 22 (ANI): Research Analyst at European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), Celine Burke, while speaking at the 65th Session of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna highlighted the importance of gender-sensitive drug policies as a crucial tool to counter gender-based discrimination and violence in drug control.
Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): The human rights violations in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is the brainchild of neighbouring Pakistan which played a key role in shaping both the radical ideas of the Taliban in religious seminaries and the fate of the terrorist group through steadfast support to its violent ways, an European think-tank told the United Nations on Monday.
Gwadar [Pakistan], January 3 (ANI): Despite lofty claims of Pakistan, the local residents of Gwadar have long complained that Chinese presence and investment in the area has done very little, if any to improve their lives, particularly with regards to water scarcity and jobs, according to Dawn.
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 20 (ANI): The illicit drug industry thriving in Afghanistan strengthens the Taliban regime in Kabul and weakens the Western political interests.
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 18 (ANI): The correlation between the birth of sovereign Bangladesh in 1971, and then the grisly and repugnant massacre of over 130 children of an Army-run school in Peshawar by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2014 shows the traces of extremism and presence of terrorist assets, in the present-day military establishment in Pakistan.
Kabul [Afghanistan] December 2 (ANI): Taliban which was always suspected to be one of the wealthiest militant groups in the world, has never let out the details about the volume and revenue of the drug trade, as Afghanistan going through grave financial crisis.