The report of International Human Rights Organization Amnesty International has revealed that Pakistan is running a widespread monitoring campaign on its citizens. Chinese technology is being used under this supervision so that the government can suppress its opponents and independent voice. According to the report, an internet firewall (WMS 2.0) made of Chinese technology is being used in Pakistan, which censors social media and has the capacity to monitor about 40 lakh mobile phones in the country.

Chinese technology and cooperation of foreign companies
The report states that this firewall uses the US Divice of Niagara Networks of America, the Software of the Thales Company of France and the Server of the Chinese Government IT company. Earlier, this type of technology belonged to the Sandvine company of Canada. Amnesty said that this system works in two ways- one system allows to listen to calls and messages, while the other blocks or slows down the websites and social media of the Internet.

A large number of websites and platform blocks
According to the report, Pakistan has currently blocked around 6.5 lakh web links. Access to major social media sites like YouTube, Facebook and X has also been limited. Amnesty also said that about 4 million mobile phones are being monitored all the time and the firewall can block 2 million internet sessions simultaneously.

Such a case was revealed
It has also been told in this report that this information has been received from a case registered in Islamabad High Court in 2024. The case was registered by Bushra Bibi, wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, when his personal calls were leaked. In the court, Pakistan’s Ministry of Defense and intelligence agencies denied these surveillance activities, but later the telecom regulator admitted that they had ordered the phone companies to install the LIMS system. Amnesty International has warned that such widespread monitoring makes citizens fear and people are afraid to raise their voice.

At least 27 people were killed and several injured in an attack on a mosque by armed bandits in Katseena, Northern Nigeria. This information has been given by the village head and the hospital officer on Tuesday (August 19, 2025).

According to the report by Al Jazeera, local residents said that the gunmen started firing inside the mosque in the remote Unguwan Mantau of Malumfashi area when the Muslims united for the namaz at around 4 am local time. However, no organization has taken responsibility for it immediately, but such attacks have become common in the northwest and north-central regions of Nigeria, where local shepherds and farmers often clash with each other over land and water.

100 people were killed in June
Many people were killed and many were injured in these attacks. More than 100 people were killed in an attack in North-Central Nigeria in June. Amnesty International has appealed to the government to stop the almost daily bloodshed in Benu state. According to Amnesty, the attack took place in Yelwata, a town in Benu state.

Army and police deployment in Ungwan Mantau area
This struggle is becoming more fatal in recent years. Officers and analysts have warned that most of the shepherds are taking up arms. State Commissioner Nasir Muzu said that after the bloodshed on Tuesday, the army and police have been deployed in Ungwan Mantau region to stop further attacks. He further said that gunmen often hide and attack communities in the fields during the rainy season.

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Executions in Saudi Arabia: There has been a lot of increase in the death penalty in Saudi Arabia last year. Amnesty International has expressed concern in this regard on Monday (July 7, 2025). Workers of Amnesty International said that the death sentence in Saudi Arabia has increased. He has expressed concern over the increasing sentence of death in cases related to non-sensational drugs.

According to Amnesty, 345 people have been hanged by Saudi Arabia in the last year. This figure is the highest recorded by the organization in the last three decades. In the first half of this year, 180 people have been sentenced to death only from January 2025 to June 2025. In such a situation, it is now being speculated that this record can break once again.

Human rights organization expressed concern

According to the Human Rights Organization Reprus, about two-thirds of the people who have been hanged so far this year were convicted in cases of non-sensational drugs. Amnesty has also expressed concern about the death penalty in such cases.

Saudi Arabia has not yet clarified why he is using the death sentence in such a large number and that too especially in cases of non-sensational drugs. According to the news agency Associate Press, when Saudi officials were asked about the death sentence, they did not respond.

However, the number of death sentence in Saudi Arabia is completely reversed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2022, in which he said that Saudi now gives death sentence only in murder cases.

What statement did Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia make,

In an interview to ‘The Atlantic’, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia said, ‘As far as the death penalty is concerned, we have abolished it except for a category (drug), which is clearly written in the Quran. Therefore, we cannot do anything in it, no matter what. Because this is the direct education of the Quran.

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