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Karachi, Pakistan: Women march for autonomy, gendered equality, resistance
Karachi, Pakistan’s port city marched and marched with slogans like #MeraJismMeriMarzi #Azaadi #AuratMarchKarachi #AuratMarch for women’s dignity, autonomy and voice
Pakistan sets a better example of secularism than India in these difficult times
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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...
Build Peace and Friendship on the Foundation of Kartarpur
It was heartening to hear NarendraModi praise Imran Khan,...
What to do with ‘illegal immigrants’ after they serve their sentence?
In the absence of repatriation treaty with Bangladesh, officials are clueless about the status of illegal immigrants, who are declared so by courts, once they served their sentence.
The Plight Of The ‘Nowhere People’ — Of Pain, Labour and Humiliation
Imprisoned by barbed wire, lacking basic amenities and rights, people trapped within the enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border lead wretched lives, writes filmmaker Aparna Sen
Promoting inter-faith harmony: Pakistan to reopen, restore 400 Hindu temples
The temples had earlier been converted to madrasas, stores and restaurants
‘Indians Less Charitable Than Asian Counterparts’
Mumbai: India ranked 82nd among 128 countries for generosity...
The lives of Pakistani Hindus, a shrinking minority
Religious persecution of minorities is a harsh reality of today’s world not only limited to the Indian sub-continent. History has been witness to religious persecution of minorities all over the world and while people continue to cling on to such fascist ideologies, minorities in every region will continue to bear the brunt of this malice.
The game of hits and misses: crackdown on “illegal” immigrants
With the Karnataka police on a politically driven “mission” to detain “illegal immigrants” the exercise is in all likelihood going to determine into an anti-Bengali or anti-outsider statement, allowing regional parochialism to raise its ugly head, even as citizens get mindlessly targeted
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