Arif Habib Corporation Limited (AHCL) confirmed that a consortium led by it has emerged as the highest-ranked bidder in the privatisation process of Pakistan International Airlines Corporation Limited (PIACL), after submitting a bid of Rs135 billion for the step-wise acquisition of a 75 % equity stake. (Source)

The flood disaster on the island of Sumatra has claimed 1,071 lives as of December 19, according to Abdul Muhari, Head of the Center for Disaster Data, Information, and Communication at Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). In disasters, women and children often become double victims due to structural vulnerabilities, including the neglect of women’s reproductive health needs.

The calamities befalling occupied Palestine continue unabated. Ever since the fall of the Khilafah (Caliphate), whose ruler once declared, "Palestine is a land watered by the blood of my forefathers, and if the Khilafah, falls, you will take it without a price," the British occupation (the so-called Mandate) replaced it. And to this day, the occupying Jewish entity, 

On Thursday 11th December, the organization, The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, reported it had documented almost 1300 incidents of sexual violence against women spanning 14 states in Sudan since the war started in the country in April 2023, with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed for 87% of cases.