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A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says the Nigerian market tops the list of cocaine smuggling regions in Africa. In The Global Report on Cocaine 2023 released on Thursday, the UN agency said the steep growth in supply has been matched by a similar swell in demand. […]
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan has been shot and wounded in his left leg in a suspected assassination attack. Khan was attacked while leading a protest march in Islamabad, the country’s capital city, demanding snap elections on Thursday. The ex-PM was rushed away from the scene while his camp said […]
In South Asia, a son is often believed to offer better financial security to parents than daughters. Some faith healers, whose practices are rooted in mystic Sufi are common across Muslim-majority Pakistan despite the disapproval of some schools of Islam. On Wednesday a pregnant woman had a nail hammered into her head by […]
The Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan released an audio statement Monday saying he was alive and well after news of his supposed demise went viral on social media. Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was last week named as a number two to Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund, blamed “fake propaganda” for the […]
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