(2024-09-06). Repression Backfires In Pakistan. popularresistance.org In July, hundreds of thousands of people set out for a national gathering in Gwadar, a picturesque port city on the Arabian sea in Balochistan — Pakistan's largest, but least populated, province. Making their way through an expanse of mountainous desert were the members of a severely oppressed community, the Baloch, whose population extends into neighboring Iran and Afghanistan. | At this first-of-its-kind national gathering, called Baloch Raji Munchi, people were planning to press their demand for an end to enforced disappearances, wrongful arrests and extrajudicial killings — all of which have been…
(2024-09-06). The crisis in Afghanistan is a result of US recklessness. peoplesdispatch.org The third anniversary of the end of the two decades of US war and occupation in Afghanistan coincides with a particularly contentious presidential election year in the US. Both the Democrats and Republicans are busy blaming each other for the fiasco. It is clear that Afghanistan has become yet another embarrassing episode in the long history of US imperial adventures which no one wants to take responsibility for. | Two of the top generals in the US army, Mark Miley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Kenneth McKenzie, former chief of US Central Command, who led the withdrawal from Afghanistan in Au…
(2024-09-06). Canada's Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony. mronline.org 
Owen Schalk details how Canada's policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.
On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Netherlands chapter of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) organized a poignant demonstration in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. This gathering aimed to raise awareness of the ongoing plight of the Baloch people, particularly the widespread practice of enforced disappearances carried out by the Pakistani military. | BNM activists passionately delivered speeches, chanting slogans that echoed through the streets of Amsterdam. They held banners, placards, and flags symbolizing the Baloch National Movement and the quest…
A Taliban government spokesman has said the Afghan authorities were committed to engagement with the international community after a The United Nations and the European Union have 
The The announcement comes after the UN mission, UNAMA, warned that a new morality law — requiring women to cover up completely and not raise their voices — would damage prospects for engagement with t…
Last Wednesday, the country's Taliban rulers Most shockingly, the laws have been interp…
The Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the UN mission in the country, UNAMA, said Sunday the laws provided a "distressing vision" for Afghanistan's future. | She said the laws extend the "already into…
Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is expected to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to the service…
The UN mission in The Taliban authorities on Wednesday announced the codification of a law with 35 articles detailing wide-ranging behaviour and lifestyle restrictions based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law. | The law sets out graduated punishment…