<p>When European lawmakers talk about labour abuse in the garment trade, Pakistan is too often cast as the defendant before any evidence is heard. A serious child-labour problem in one corner of the economy becomes, in the retelling, a verdict on an entire export industry. That is not regulation. It is collective punishment by reputation.</p> <p>Europe is right to insist that the clothes, towels and bed linen entering its market are not produced through child labour, forced labour, unsafe workpl

<p>The second phase of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections took place on Sunday, with polling held in eight out of the nine constituencies of Muzaffarabad division and all 12 refugee constituencies.</p> <p>Polling began at 8am and continued till 5pm for the refugee seats, while the process concluded at 6pm in Muzaffarabad after an hour-long extension.</p> <p>The electoral process in LA-27 (Muzaffarabad-I) was postponed due to heavy rain, AJK Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Ghulam Mustaf

<p>The president’s minions have trawled the statutes to restore roadblocks to trade. The invocation of Smoot-Hawley looks especially dangerous</p><p>Donald Trump may have found the killer weapon to punish countries at will: by imposing tariffs on their exports to the United States.</p><p>The president has been looking for a new tool since February, when the supreme court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/supreme-court-tariffs-ruling-world-trade-trump">struck down tariffs

Almost all of the migrants who entered Spain’s enclave of Ceuta had left by Saturday, according to officials. An estimated 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco over just a few days, with at least 67 people losing their lives in the attempt. Spain has announced plans to install a 500-metre-long containment barrier along the sea border. Meanwhile, a majority of EU countries have called for emergency talks in an open letter to the bloc’s interior ministers. Matthew-Mary Caru

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<p>The massive and sudden <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2019690">influx</a> of 60,000 migrants into Spain’s enclave of Ceuta, located in the north of Morocco, has triggered a crisis for Spain, and the European Union.</p> <h2><a id="how-big-an-influx" href="#how-big-an-influx" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink"></a>How big an influx?</h2> <p>The numbers of migrants suddenly flowing into Ceuta is outsized for the territory’s population of 80,000.</p> <p>Some 60

<p>US President Donald Trump said talks in Cairo between mediators and Hamas leaders on Thursday have led to a phased disarmament agreement in Gaza, but a Hamas official described the deal as a draft and US officials said Israel was sceptical the Palestinian group would surrender its weapons.</p> <p>“Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza,” Trump said in a social media post, adding that the disarmament w