On 1 March 2026, Aljazeera reported that at least nine people were killed in Pakistan as crowds tried to storm the US consulate and security forces fired to disperse them; a hospital official said “at least nine bodies were brought to Karachi’s civil hospital” after the clash.

On 1 March 2026, Iranian state media confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death after attacks that hit leadership targets in Tehran in the opening strikes conducting jointly by the US and the Zionist entity...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has already called for an immediate, high-level investigation into the deaths resulting from operations conducted by Punjab’s Crime Control Department. The crime control department has killed more than 900 people in the last eight months. Many of these people were picked up from their homes in front of their families and later killed in encounters.

The recent release of an animated video by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Assam official X handle, showing Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma firing a gun at characters identified as Muslims under the caption “No Mercy,” is not merely a political gaffe or a social media error but is a calculated manifestation of a “Hindu regime” that has moved beyond dog-whistle politics to the open celebration of violence.