News commentary by the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan. For real change... Renounce democracy... Establish Khilafah.

Bank Negara Malaysia, BNM (The Central Bank of Malaysia) made a decision to raise the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) to 3.0% which has a direct impact on the increase in interest rates (riba) of loans (financing). The increase in OPR brought mixed reactions. Economists had been expecting it, but some saw this rise as coming too soon.

On the 24th of May, the BBC reported that a 95-year-old woman was tasered in her care home by police officers. Law enforcement was called to the scene when it was concerned staff reported that she was holding a knife and was acting erratically. She fell to the floor due to her engagement with the police and was critically injured to the point where she was hospitalised for days; she…

“WHO and partners are launching a global network to help protect people from infectious disease threats through the power of pathogen genomics. The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) will provide a platform to connect countries and regions, improving systems for collecting and analyzing samples, using these data to drive public health decision-making, and sharing that information more broadly...