High Commissioner of Human Rights Prince Haroon Khan

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa denied on Sunday that his country sought to intervene militarily in Lebanon where Israel and Hezbollah are at war, after US President Donald Trump repeatedly suggested Damascus could get involved. https://arab.news/6ykj6

کوئٹہ کی انسداد دہشت گردی کی ایک عدالت نے پیر کو بلوچ یکجہتی کمیٹی (بی وائے سی) کی رہنما ماہ رنگ بلوچ اور ان کے دیگر تین ساتھیوں کو 25،25 (عمر قید) سال قید کی سزا سنا دی۔
ماہ رنگ بلوچ، صبغت اللہ بلوچ شاہ، بالاچ قادر اور ابوبکر کلانچی پر الزام تھا کہ فروری 2024 میں عوامی اجتماع اور احتجاج کے دوران فرنٹیئر کانسٹیبلری (ایف سی) اہلکار شبیر بلوچ کو ہجوم نے مبینہ پتھراؤ کا نشانہ بنایا جس سے ان کی جان چلی گئی

Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said the US should be careful with its statements, warning that Iran’s armed forces are "ready to respond".

BREAKING: French FM Jean-Noel Barrot says Israel must stop its hostilities in Lebanon and called on the US to pressure Israel to halt its military offensives.

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The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) is continuing to implement training programs for vulnerable groups and persons with disabilities in Gaza under its Economic Empowerment Project, in partnership with the Saudi Center for Culture and Heritage, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. https://arab.news/pwddh

اٹلی کی وزیر اعظم جورجیا میلونی کا کہنا ہے کہ انھیں ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ کے اطالوی نیوز چینل کو دیے گئے اُس انٹرویو پر حیرت ہوئی ہے جس میں امریکی صدر نے دعویٰ کیا کہ انھوں (میلونی) نے (ٹرمپ) کے ساتھ تصویر لینے کے لیے منت سماجت کی تھی۔
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For first time in 30 years, states and not armed groups are top killers of children in war, UN says http://arab.news/cccx2

London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that the British government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action is lawful.

Palestine Action, which had increasingly targeted the Israeli-linked defense companies in Britain, with a particular focus on Israel’s largest defence firm Elbit Systems, was proscribed under terrorism laws last year.

London’s High Court ruled in February, after a legal challenge by the group’s co-founder, that the ban unlawfully interfered with freedom of expression, although it remained proscribed pending the government’s appeal.

Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020, had said proscription had imposed “severe restrictions on the fundamental free speech and assembly rights of vast numbers of people” who supported the Palestinian cause.

However, five senior judges on the Court of Appeal overturned the lower court’s decision, saying while banning a group like Palestine Action was “highly controversial”, it was proportionate.

“It is a fundamental mistake to overlook the fact that Palestine Action overtly promoted unlawful violence amounting to terrorism,” said Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr, the most senior judge in England and Wales.

Ammori said she would seek to challenge Monday’s ruling at the UK Supreme Court.

Pakistan has 8.6 million children in child labour, with over 6.6 million engaged in hazardous labour that threatens their health, safety, and future, according to a national report launched by the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) in collaboration with Unicef on Thursday.

The report “Pakistan: Child Labour Surveys, Evidence for Action” was the first nationally representative child labour dataset in nearly three decades. It provided a comprehensive picture of the scale, distribution, sectors, risks, and drivers of child labour nationwide.

Speaking at the launch, NCHR Chairperson Rabiya Javeri Agha noted that Pakistan’s last comprehensive child labour survey was conducted in 1996, with policymakers and development partners relying on outdated or fragmented data for over 20 years. She emphasised that while prevalence varied across provinces, hazardous child labour remained a widespread concern affecting children in every region.

Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/2008946

Muslim-majority countries including regional heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Turkiye said on Thursday that they held Israel responsible for arson attacks on two West Bank mosques, which Palestinian officials said were torched by settlers.

The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Turkiye lambasted “the continued and escalating settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank”, pointing to the mosques that were set on fire a day earlier.

“The Ministers hold Israel — as the occupying power — responsible for these attacks,” they said in a joint statement.

Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/2009050