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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

Sheikh Hasina’s ‘Strategic Compromise’ With Hefazat-e-Islam Turning Bangladesh Into An Extremist Hotbed Once Again

The Hefazat has been blackmailing the Hasina government into accepting its demands and its leader Junaid Babunagri has been issuing Taliban like diktats to the government.

Khadim Husain Rizvi and the Weaponisation of Barelwis in Pakistan

Khadim Husain, though responsible for giving a sense of purposive militancy to the Barelwis might also have been an unconscious player in someone else’s strategic game.

Why did Pak Minister plagiarise PM Modi’s ‘ghar me ghuskar’ line?

Is Pakistan guilty of terror attacks? But how did it dare attack India ‘ghar me ghuskar’? Bhakts on both sides are confused!

Your grave will be dug here: Hindutva mob threatens Kashmiri lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawant

Death threats, mobbing, online trolling are now leading to real violence against women, activists, lawyers, journalists in J&K, and elsewhere

171 Hindus ‘converted’ to Islam in Sindh: Pakistani lawyer

Rahat John Austin, who describes himself “Lawyer, Author, Activist” on social media had flagged the conversion

Pakistan Now Turns on Its Shia Citizens

Pakistan recently saw one of the largest demonstrations against...

‘Nepali’ man tonsured, forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by Vishwa Hindu Sena

The video surfaced after Nepalese PM KP Oli stoked a controversy saying that the ‘real Ayodhya’ was in Nepal

Will Imran Government Arrest the Man Who Tutored His 4-Year Son to Threaten Hindus?

Recently, the Imran Khan led Pakistani government had approved...

Pakistan Abases its Ahmadi Citizens, yet Again

One notices a strange silence within the Indian Muslim community regarding the persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan.

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Press bodies condemn alleged assault on women journalists at Saket Police Station, seek inquiry and action

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Jauhar & the Politics of Distraction: How the Right and so-called liberals often complement each other

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