GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The Syrian conflict has acted like a greenhouse for extremist groups which are now spreading "like a cancer", the UN chief said on Friday, urging greater cooperation to prevent radicalization.
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) has stressed on bringing about change for women in Asia and gender equality through movements to highlight their rights.
NEW YORK: Apple Inc will likely seek to invoke the United States' protections of free speech as one of its key legal arguments in trying to block an order to help unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, lawyers with expertise in the subject said this week.
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stepped up against growing hate crimes against Muslims and vowed to protect their right through social media.
VEHARI: Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Saturday lamented that the rule of might is right is in place in the country and vowed to get the kisans their due rights, ARY News reported.
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal throughout the nation Friday in a much-awaited landmark decision that triggered wild scenes of jubilation and tears of joy.
KABUL: A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women.
SELMA: President Barack Obama will call for a new generation of Americans to take up the torch kindled by civil rights leaders 50 years ago in Selma, Alabama, when he visits the historic town Saturday.
ISLAMABAD: Rights organisations on Thursday called on Pakistan to halt the execution of the first civilian for a non-terror related offence since 2008, saying the move would violate its own official policy.
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League - Quaid (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that a fruitful result of the sit-in in Islamabad will be achieved, ARY News reports.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri has hinted at ending his sit-in if government make an amendment into the constitution, ARY News reported Monday.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said more rigging could have taken place in the next general had people not taken to the streets is Islamabad in his crusade against what he described as ‘corrupt government’, ARY News reported.
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Convener of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said that no one would have challenged democracy if it was taken care of, ARY News reports.
HONG KONG: A Beijing court has ruled against Apple Inc by upholding the validity of a patent held by a Chinese company, clearing the way for the Chinese company to continue its own case against Apple for infringing intellectual property rights.