Washington: North Korea's missile launches could be groundwork for a return to intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear bomb tests this year for the first time since 2017, the US Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) said in its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment. On Tuesday, US-based analysts said
Islamabad: Saima Saleem made headlines last year when she addressed the UN General Assembly with a fierce speech in support of the right of Kashmiris to self-determination. All cameras were on her as she sat behind the Pakistan nameplate at the assembly’s hall and read
Lahore: The military siege has been imposed on some ten million Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) since August 5, 2019 and the suppressed Kashmiris continued to face gross human rights violations at the hands of more than 700,000 Indian forces deployed in the valley. The
New Delhi: Adivasi women in India continue to pay the price for being defenders of their lands, shows a report by advocacy group Survival International released on the occasion of International Women's Day. The report titled ‘Brutalized for resistance: The assault on Indigenous women in Modi’s
Qaisar Mansoor On International Women's Day, a Kashmiri human rights defender asked international community to notice Kashmiri women who "have been carrying the heaviest burden" in the ongoing three-decades-long conflict. In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, UN Commission on
Uttar Pradesh: Hindu extremists reportedly broke into a Christian pastor's house in northern India, attacked him, and slit his wife's throat over accusations that he was luring people to Christianity. Morning Star News reports that a group of eight people, including two women, entered Pastor Rakesh
New Delhi: Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik, who also served as IIOJK Governor, has said his friends advised him not to criticise the Bharatiya Janta Party government as he could be made the President or Vice President if he kept quiet, but asserted that he
Qaisar Mansoor At the time of independence of Pakistan, Junagadh State under the Muslim ruler Nawab Mahabbat Khanji signed accession with Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah. India through an act of brazen aggression transgressed upon Muslim-ruled princely state of Junagadh and occupied it by force soon after the
Srinagar: Senior All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Professor Abdul Ghani Butt has called upon Pakistan and India to start a dialogue process to resolve the long-pending Kashmir dispute, once and for all. Professor Butt in a statement issued in Srinagar said war is no solution
New Delhi: Amidst the ongoing controversy over hijab in the Indian state of Karnataka, an FIR has been filed against a hijab wearing student of a Mangaluru college. The irony of the case is that she was subjected to harassment by some Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi