India beefs up security at Taj Mahal after ISIS threat
AGRA (AFP) - India has boosted security at the Taj Mahal after a pro-ISIS group reportedly warned of attacks in the country and...
Genocide Watch
Mar 17, 2017
Gunmen disguised as doctors assault Kabul hospital, leaving 30 dead
Afghan police arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul. The attack rattled Kabul's diplomatic district, as insurgents struck...
Pamela Constable and Sayed Salahuddin | The
Mar 8, 2017
People’s Tribunal on Myanmar State Crimes on Rohingya and Kachin victims to be announced
Little Rohingya girl by the barbed wire fence On March 6-7, representatives of Rohingya and Kachin victim groups of Myanmar are...
India Blooms News Service
Mar 7, 2017
The Legend of Aung San Suu Kyi
There has been a dramatic shift in media coverage of Aung San Suu Kyi since 2012, when she travelled to Oslo to pick up her 1991 Nobel...
Mary Scully | Pakistan Today
Mar 3, 2017
Why is Pakistan entering an arms deal with the Burmese government?
Many among us take pride in Pakistan’s position as one of the prime bastions of Islamic ideals in the modern Muslim world. The Islamic...
Faraz Talat | Pakistan Todayb
Mar 1, 2017
Governments Step Up for Reproductive Rights
Governments should pledge political and financial support for sexual and reproductive health to counter the United States’ “Global Gag...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 28, 2017
A people Without a Country
The sudden influx of Rohingya refugees is a cause of worry to Bangladesh. “Why are we punished, we are not involved in any militancy,”...
Haroon Habib | The Hindu
Feb 26, 2017
Seminar on ‘Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing’
The Khojaly genocide of the 20th century is one of the most serious crimes in history not only against the people of Azerbaijan but...
Pakistan Observer
Feb 22, 2017
"We Rohingya get kicked around like a football"
Tens of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim minority fleeing ethnic persecution in Myanmar, are adrift in boats in the Bay of Bengal,...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Feb 10, 2017
PAKISTAN ACQUITS 112 IN CASE OF TORCHING CHRISTIAN HOMES OVER BLASPHEMY RUMOUR
A Pakistani court acquitted 112 suspects in the 2013 torching of hundreds of Christian homes in the eastern city of Lahore over a rumour...
Reuters
Feb 1, 2017
‘Give Us Our Children Back’: Hunger Strikers in Sri Lanka Demand Answers
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Seated on a platform outside a regional post office in Sri Lanka’s former war zone, about 150 miles north of the...
New York Times 1
Jan 26, 2017
It is High Time We Discarded the Pernicious Myth of India’s Medieval Muslim ‘Villains’
Whatever happened in the past, religious-based violence is real in modern India, and Muslims are frequent targets. It is thus...
The Wire
Jan 11, 2017
