Human Rights in South Asia
Middle East: When will Palestinian Issue be Resolved?
0 comments | by Viktor Mikhin
President of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations to convene an international conference on the Middle East in 2021, after two Gulf states normalized their ties with Israel and once the US presidential election has taken place. According to his statement, “a genuine peace process” will lea
Read Full ArticleMalicious campaign of 'calumny' on against soldiers of Muslim faith: 91 civil servants
0 comments | by Satyamev Jayate
As many as 91 former civil servants have, in an open letter, sought investigation into what they call “malicious campaign of calumny” against soldiers of the Muslim faith in the Indian armed forces, stating “the assaults against the dignity of our Muslim citizens, as indeed physical assaults, are becoming commonplace.” The latest
Read Full ArticleThe Narrative of a New Pakistan
4 comments | by Saad Rasool
Over the past week, even as Pakistani media was consumed by the abhorrent (and self-destructive) tirades of Nawaz Sharif and his cohorts, an important transformation took place in Pakistan’s ‘international narrative’, especially concerning India. Specifically, in an exclusive interview to Indian media, Dr Moeed Yusuf, Advisor to the Prime Minister
Read Full ArticleTripartite dialogue over Kashmir: Only way out
4 comments | by Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai
Dr. Moeed Yusuf, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on National Security and Strategic Policy, disclosed in an interview with Karan Thapar that India displayed a desire to hold a conversation with Pakistan. He added that we support any conversation that moves us forward. However, he also emphasised that there are three parties to the dispute: Pakistan
Read Full ArticleUN rights chief slams India over arrests, restrictions on NGOs
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GENEVA: UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet voiced her dismay on Tuesday at the arrest of activists in India and restrictions to the work of non-governmental organisations. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights appealed to New Delhi to safeguard the rights of human rights defenders and NGOs. Bachelet regretted what she called the application of v
Read Full ArticleWhat’s the Difference between Nagorno-Karabakh & Kashmir?
0 comments | by Andrew Korybko
Pakistan’s position of supporting Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity has come under criticism by some in India who claim that it’s hypocritical for Islamabad to endorse the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination while denying the same to the majority Armenian inhabitants of Occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, but these two conflicts are actually very
Read Full ArticleMalevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India..
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Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by KS Komireddi – review A blistering polemic exposes the country’s malaise under Narendra Modi Almost a decade ago, I travelled to a small town in Gujarat, a state in the west of India, to hear
Read Full Article0 comments | by Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor
While ending the special status of Jammu and Kashmir last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured people that the time had now come when gold would grow instead of grass, milk canals would flow in exchange for water in the rivers and springs and the skies would sight flight of Kashmiris not the birds. Article 370 of the Constitution of India, tha
Read Full ArticleNo peace until Kashmiris' rights are fulfilled
0 comments | by Islamuddin Sajid
India's actions in Kashmir nothing less than a holocaust, says speaker in webinar on conflict in disputed region Peace that is not based on the principle that governments derive all their just power from the governed can never – and should never – last, speakers said at a webinar on the Kashmir issue on Friday.
Read Full ArticleThe Neverending Holocausts of the Neoliberal Order
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Biochemist, writer, humanitarian activist, and artist, Gideon Polya has had a selection of his essays gathered into a compendium titled US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide (Korsgaard Publishing, 2020). The compendium is important because it brings to
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