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Washington: - The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar’s military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity, an official told AFP. Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a
Islamabad: The 48th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is beginning in Islamabad tomorrow [Tuesday]. The thematic focus of the two-day Ministerial Conference is on ‘Partnering for Unity, Justice and Development’. Foreign Ministers and high-level dignitaries from OIC Member and
Srinagar: Sikh leaders, retired Indian army officers and lawyers have said that Indian agencies through killers of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh massacred 35 innocent Sikhs on the intervening night of March 20-21, 2000 in Chittisinghpora area of Islamabad district. Chittisinghproa massacre and other such massacres were perpetrated
Qaisar Mansoor On a cloudy evening of March 20, 2000, Chattisingpora, a hilltop hamlet in Indian Occupied Kashmir’s (IOK)’s Islamabad district, became the site of a massacre that claimed the lives of 35 men and children of the region’s minority Sikh community. The massacre took place on
By: Muhammad Shoaib Khan Hatred against Muslims and Islamophobia is increasing in world and to counter this and create awareness the UN adopted a landmark resolution introduced by Pakistan, on behalf of (OIC), designating 15 March as “International Day to Combat Islamophobia” It marks the day
Srinagar: Over the week, right-wing media enthusiastically hailed The Kashmir Files for voicing the grievances of the Kashmiri Hindus or Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) who also were forced to flee their homes during the Kashmir insurgency in the late 80s and early 90s. At the same
Karnataka: The Karnataka government has ruled out holding re-examinations for the students who skipped them due to the hijab protests, The Hindu reported on Monday. In December, a group of Muslim girl students of the Government Women’s Pre-University College in Udupi city were not allowed to
Assam: Last week, 21-year-old Biki Ali and 38-year-old Rajesh Munda were shot dead by the Assam Police. Both were rape accused, killed within a day of their arrest. The police claimed they were trying to flee custody when they were shot. At least 35 people have
Haryana: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) will hold a nationwide protest on Monday (today) to protest against Modi govt for not ‘fulfilling its promises’, including setting up of a panel on MSP and withdrawal of cases against farmers, according to its functionaries. The decision was taken
Male: Former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has said that everyone in the current government was a slave of India. Speaking at a gathering held as part of the opposition’s ‘India Out’ campaign protesting against the presence of the Indian military in Maldives, the former President
New Delhi: Quratulain Rehbar was on a public bus in northern India earlier this month when a friend alerted her that her picture had appeared on an app, where she was being advertised as for sale. At first she was numb, she said, but gradually the
Yukta Maheshwari The Black Lives Matter movement observed the death anniversary of George Floyd on 25th May. When the world was talking about racism against black people, India saw its own version of racism. On 25th May itself, a Punjab based YouTuber Paras Singh questioned the