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Islamabad: Hundreds of people took to the streets across the Line of Control (LoC) dividing the mountainous region of Kashmir between Pakistan and India on Wednesday to condemn New Delhi for denying the right to self-determination to the occupied valley. The demonstrations coincided with the Republic
LAHORE: After the Partition, India has always celebrated its Republic Day on Jan 26, with some foreign head of the state as the chief guest since 1950. In years 1952, 1953 and 1966, the day was celebrated without any foreign special guest. And this year too,
Qaisar Mansoor India’s 73rd Republic Day is being marked on 26 January when Indian Constitution came into effect in 1950, which was to make the country a secular state. India portrays herself as champion of human rights, whereas, minorities and non-Hindu communities living in India are
Srinagar: Kashmiris on both sides and all over the world are observing the Indian Republic Day as Black Day today to draw the world’s attention towards the unlawful and forcible occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. According to media reports, posters appeared across Srinagar and other areas
Srinagar: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and across the world observed the Indian Republic Day, the 26th January, as Black Day, on Wednesday to remind the world that India’s continued denial of right to self-determination to the Kashmiri people is contrary
Srinagar: A shutdown was observed in Indian Occupied and Kashmir as a mark of protest against India’s Republic Day on Wednesday. These strikes for the past 32 years have been one of several forms of Kashmiri resentment against the Indian rule. In order to quell possible protests,
New Delhi: A genocide of Muslims in India could be about to take place, an expert said to have predicted the massacre of the Tutsi in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994, has warned. Gregory Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, said
Hammad Sarfraz Last month India made headlines when anti-Muslim fury reached a fever pitch in Haridwar and New Delhi. Hundreds of right-wing followers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its parent body, Rashtriya Svayamsevak Sangh, also known as the RSS, vowed to do anything to
By Muhammad Shoaib Khan Pakistan and India have been rivals since partition of Sub Continent. There were 500 princely states including Kashmir in British India. Maharaja executed the legal document of Instrument of Accession. At the time of partition, it was at the discretion of Maharaja
London: Brutal winter conditions in northern Syria have ushered in mass-scale suffering for 2.8 million internally displaced persons, a top UN humanitarian official warned. “We’re extremely concerned about the situation there,” Mark Cutts, the UN’s deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, said in a briefing attended
London: Nestled amid superstores at a retail park, the Colchester Foodbank in eastern England last year gave out a total of 165 tonnes of food — enough to feed 17,000 people. But that could be surpassed this year, as British annual inflation hits a 30-year high
London: British Muslims have been categorized as being one of the most discriminated communities across the UK, according to a new report on Islamophobia published. The analysis by the University of Birmingham and data analysis firm YouGov discovered that the British public are more likely to