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A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

B’desh Minister asks for list of illegal migrants, agrees to take them back

Reports suggest that the relations between Bangladesh and India seem to have normalized after speculation that the same had gone sour. Reportedly, assurances have been made by both sides to co-operate and continue to be friendly neighbourhood allies; one doesn’t know how long will this last.

927 Sikhs and Hindus granted citizenship since 2018

In one of the questions on December 11 in Rajya Sabha came a question from Dr. Kirodi Lal Meena of BJP seeking data on citizenship given to refugees from particularly Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bangladesh rejects Amit Shah’s remarks on religious minorities

The government will study the matter before taking it up with India, Foreign Minister Abdul Momen said

Sri Lankan refugees, the persecuted people that CAB is forgetting

While considering granting citizenship to Non-Muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the Centre has been conspicuous in excluding the more than 1 lakh Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.

Hindus and Muslims help renovate a gurudwara in Pakistan

The gurudwara in Pakistan’s Sindh has no Sikh population and had been shut since partition

Does Pakistan really have a ‘nefarious intent’ with regard to opening the Kartarpur corridor?

Punjab CM says he always thought the opening of the Kartarpur corridor had a hidden agenda to restart Sikh militancy

27 year old journalist killed, for going to work: Pakistan

Urooj Iqbal is the seventh female journalist killed in 2019

Pakistan sets a better example of secularism than India in these difficult times

The mood inside the Punjab Banquet Hall in Surrey...

Pakistani students march for ‘azadi’

Taking a cue from their JNU counterparts, Pakistani students are to protest the abysmal condition of higher education

New documentary reveals scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya

An ethnic Rakhine man holds homemade weapons as he...

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