Qaisar Mansoor Under Bharatiya Janata Party’s leadership, India has become one of the most dangerous country for minorities in the world. Human Rights Watch in its annual report has criticized BJP-led government in India for adopting discriminatory policies against minority communities, including Muslims. Minorities are being persecuted
Srinagar: In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), a region mostly off-limits to foreign reporters and rife with communications blackouts and curfews, local journalists remained one of the few reliable sources of information, even as they operated under difficult conditions. According to an article of
Srinagar: January 24 is being marked as the International Day of Education. The day aims to acknowledge the role education plays in peace and development. But unfortunately, India has deprived Kashmiri students of their right to education even the world observed International Day of Education. Over
New Delhi: The National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL), a civil rights group in India, has compiled what it has called landmark cases of caste-based sexual violence” between 1985 and 2020. Compiling 12 cases from 10 States, the 15-page report, released by NCWL says, the effort
Muhammad Shoaib Khan After partition in subcontinent, two nations got independence one was Pakistan and other was India. With independence and Partition the larger, western, portion of Punjab was allocated to Pakistan, now a Muslim state. In the violent upheavals that followed, hundreds of thousands of Punjabis were killed,
Tonga: Tongans queued for limited money services that were restored in the Pacific island's capital on Saturday, as the clean-up continued a week after a devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami. Tonga's government said drinking water was the priority, and a national emergency team had already distributed
Geneva: Washington and Moscow's top diplomats agreed to keep working to ease tensions over Ukraine, with the United States promising a written response to Russian security requirements next week and not ruling out a presidential meeting. As fears grew that Russia could invade its pro-Western neighbour,
Maiduguri, Nigeria: The devastating Boko Haram conflict in northeast Nigeria, now in its 11th year, has claimed the lives of several thousand people, displaced more than 2.3 million and has left at least 7.7 million people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Although the government
Riyadh: The Saudi General Authority for Statistics announced a significant increase in divorce cases in the Kingdom. A report published by the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan revealed that the divorce bonds in the Kingdom reached 57,595 in the last months of 2020, up from 12.7% in 2019. The
New Delhi: India added 3,37,704 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,89,03,731, which includes 10,050 cases of the Omicron variant, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The active cases have increased to 21,13,365, the highest in 237 days,