A man carries a child who was injured in the accident (Picture credit: AP) At least 22 people, including 10 children and five women, were killed and around 36 others injured after a truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.The accident occurred in Laghman […]
Donald Trump Jr. criticised the Wall Street Journal editorial board on Friday after the paper published an op-ed defending Afghan refugees living in the United States.The Journal’s editorial was titled “The Ambush on the National Guard.” It argued that Afghan refugees should not be blamed for the actions of a single individual.Recently, two National Guardsmen […]
Trump freezes Green Card for refugees admitted to the US by the Joe Biden administration. The Donald Trump administration has made a major decision to reinterview certain refugees who were admitted to the US by the previous Joe Biden administration. Until the reinterview, the administration will not proceed with the process of granting the refugees […]
Three senior ministers in the cabinet of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq resigned on Saturday. The ministers accused the prime minister of failing to protect the constitutional and political rights of PoJK residents and Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan, news agency ANI reported. According to The Express Tribune, information minister […]
Pakistan Afghan Refugees (Photo credit: AP) Thousands of Afghan refugees with official registration documents are being forced out of Pakistan, even as their homeland reels from a devastating earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people last weekend. AFP reported. quoting officials that the returns have sharply escalated in recent days, with families crossing the border […]
The UAE’s Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation and International Finance Corporation will train 7,000 youth, focusing on skills and employment in Arab countries/Representative Image A new regional initiative led by the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation (AGF) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is aiming to equip nearly 7,000 youth—at least half of them women—across Jordan, Lebanon, […]
US announces halting all visitors’ visa from Gaza. The State Department made a major announcement of halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza for the time being, as it conducts a full and thorough review of the “process and procedures” used to issue medial-humanitarian visas in recent days. “All visitor visas for individuals from […]
A resurfaced video of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani advocating “seizing the means of production” has sent chills through a section of communist refugees. The TOI could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.Mamdani has, however, categorically dismissed the claims of him being a communist, and describes himself as a “democratic socialist”.“I […]
In the chaotic bureaucracy of the American immigration system, few things remain constant—except Donald Trump’s knack for turning humanitarian policy into culture war spectacle. Refugees, once a bipartisan issue, are now cast as characters in the President’s favourite morality play: a grand narrative where white grievance wears the hero’s cape, and the rest of the […]
The United Nations has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and expelled them, in some cases by putting them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death. The episode appeared to be part of a broader […]
