India continues to report over 200,000 daily Covid-19 cases, Delhi opts six-day lockdown

India continues to report over 200,000 daily Covid-19 cases, capital New Delhi announces six-day lockdown-President Ghani says Afghanistan ready for coalition forces’ pull out-Nepal decides to close educational institutes until May 14 as Covid-19 cases surgeIndia on Monday reported 273,810 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day spike so far since the pandemic broke out, and the highest-ever single-day spike in COVID-related deaths with 1,625 fatalities. Amid the second and more deadly virus wave across India, authorities in capital New Delhi have also announced a six-day lockdown to tackle the crisis.Pakistan's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Monday informed that 11 policemen, who were taken hostage in Lahore, have been released following talks with the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan. The far-right Islamist party was banned last Thursday following violent clashes over the arrest of their leader, who had threatened to hold massive rallies against the cartoon depictions of Islam's prophet in France.Sindhi activists across the globe have been raising their voices against atrocities, human rights violations by the Pakistani establishment on its people and other minorities in the country. Several U.S.-based Sindhi activists are on an almost month-long arduous journey from the UN headquarters in New York to Washington D.C. to highlight human rights violations in Sindh province of Pakistan.