News about Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Dozens of protesters have been arrested by Pakistani police after an ugly rally in favor of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan ahead of upcoming elections next month. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has been badly hamstrung ahead of the February 8 election, with rallies banned, its party emblem taken away, and scores of its candidates have voted against qualifying for the position. Human rights organisations have warned that national and provincial elections lack credibility, especially with the powerful military accused of attempting to compel the vote.

Khan, who was deposed in a no-confidence vote in April 2022 but who is still the country's top opposition figure, had concealed assets after selling state gifts, according to the court. According to senior police officer Ali Nasir Rizvi, the former cricket star was rushed from his home in the eastern city of Lahore to Islamabad. Khan was taken from a high-security prison in Attock, Punjab, that is notorious for its harsh conditions. Inmates are among the murderers and terrorists facing trial. Khan's party sent a video message showing him at his Lahore home behind a desk with the Pakistani and PTI flags in the background. He warned his followers that if the news made them, he would be in jail by the time they got them and that they should not remain in their homes and should not sit quietly.

After Taliban leaders barred them from higher education, hundreds of young women were turned away from Afghan universities (top right, women at the gates) on the morning. Armed guards barred students from entering campuses on Wednesday (left, students protest the decision) the next day, a day after the country's Taliban leaders banned them from entering campuses in another assault on human rights. Despite promising a softer rule when they took power last year, the hardline Islamists have ratcheted up limits on all aspects of women's lives, despite international outrage. We are doomed.' We've lost everything,' said one student who refused not to be identified.

Antonio Guterres, the United Nations General Secretary-General, has appealed urgently to the international community to help the 33 million people (main, people who were forced to cross a river on a suspended cradle) who are 'awash with pain and facing a monsoon on steroids) displaced people.' The International Monetary Fund has already paid the south east Asian country a $1.1 billion (£981,354 million) bailout, but experts warn that the damage could be much more costly. The historic deluge, caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains, has killed homes and businesses, infrastructure (a cracked road, inset, and the road, which has fallen into the river), and crops, killing 1,100 people, including 380 children. Sindh province has been hardest, with a population of 50 million, which has received 46 percent more rain than the 30-year average.

Since torrential floods destroyed their homes, nearly 500,000 residents in Pakistan have sought refuge in camps. After record-breaking monsoon rains wracked the country last mid-June, killing more than 1,136 people, the country's climate minister said it is on the 'front line' of the world's climate crisis. The rains in some regions had stopped more than two days ago, and floods had been receding. Pakistanis in several areas of the region were still wading through waters that filled their homes or covered their town's streets as they tried to cope with the damage caused by floods. With millions of acres of farmland also in danger, a massive relief operation is being launched to tackle distress calls. The Indus River is expected to breach its banks, with fears that it could flood a third of the country, a region similar to Britain's.

In the aftermath of devastating floods that have killed more than 1,000 people and killed tens of millions of people, the queen has written to Pakistan's president, expressing her "deep sorrow." "I am greatly sad to hear of the tragic loss of life and civil damage caused by the floods in Pakistan,' the monarch, 96 (inset), wrote this morning. My sympathies are with those that have been affected, as well as those who are in difficult situations to encourage the recovery efforts.' As floodwaters rise, a group of boys make their way across a makeshift wooden path.

Experts say tens of millions of Pakistanis have been forced to flee their homes and more than 1,000 have been killed as a result of catastrophic floods, threatening to drown an area the size of the UK. One third of the country's poorest regions has been destroyed and whole villages have vanished, with a video capturing hotel collapses, helicopter rescues, and tiny escapes among poor residents. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the foreign minister of Pakistan's flood-ravaged province, spoke at his home this morning: "Around me is just water, water, and more water." There isn't much dry land to be found on the island. We've been hit by a monsoon [with] floods from the sky that haven't been active since June. It's a disaster on a scale that I've never seen before.'