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Pakistan: Farmers Protest Govt’s Corporate Farming Plan

To invite big corporate investments into the country’s agriculture sector, Pakistan has announced the building of six canals on the Indus River.

Govt to collect biometric data of Rohingyas to keep a tab on movements and deport them

Calling all Rohingya refugees in India “illegal immigrants”, the...

View from Bangladesh: Amit Shah and his termite politics

Once again, xenophobia got the better of reasonA new...

500,000 Rohingyas waiting to enter Bangladesh

They claim that the Myanmar army is still torturing...

Bangladesh: Imaging 71 with Shahidul Alam

How the photographer established the pedagogy of photography in...

Naya Pakistan or the Same Old Bigoted Pakistan?

Imran Khan’s government came with the promise of establishing...

We are not the enemy

Journalists get a lot more hate than they deserveA...

Blasphemy Law Practiced In Pakistan Is Evil, Obsolete and A Way of Victimizing Its Minority Communities

I never thought that far-right, Dutch firebrand politician Geert...

Mentally unstable Indian boy languishing in Pakistan jail

The boy seems to be mentally unstable and not...

Bangladesh Must Release Political Prisoner & Eminent Photojournalist Dr Shahidul Alam From Prison

Internationally-renowned  Bangladeshi scholar, activist  and photojournalist Dr Shahidul Alam...

Why Imran Khan’s Invocation of Medina is Deeply Regressive

When politicians fail to deliver basic promises related to...

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