A Pakistani man who murdered his celebrity sister was freed last week, after a court ruled it was not an “honour killing”, allowing their mother to pardon him under Islamic Sharia law in Pakistan, where a murder victim’s family is able to pardon a convicted killer. Six years ago, in 2016, Waseem Azeem strangled his […]
Though Christians are beaten, persecuted, attacked again and again, they have not lost hope, stated Christian human rights activist Asif Bastian, from The Voice of Justice group. He said Christians are ‘repeatedly attacked by Islamic fanatics and criminals with impunity’. Civil society groups in Pakistan called for an end to ‘unabated attacks on people belonging […]
An unusual case has come to light in Pakistan. Two sisters living there have become brothers after undergoing a sex change operation. Both of them belong to a Zamindar family of Punjab based in Pakistan. “I have reached Gujarat as a boy from Islamabad. I am so happy about this that I cannot put it […]
How did the Taliban sustain itself for 20 years? Nishant Mishra did some reading up and presented this report. The Taliban group has a $2.3 billion fund for its fight in Afghanistan, with millions coming in from the opium and heroin trade, drugs, donations, extortion, illegal mining, and real estate. Annually, the Taliban has earnings […]
The US forces and the intervention in Afghanistan did little for the actual empowerment of the Afghan people, says Jesuit Father Alexis Prem Kumar, who had spent several months in Taliban captivity. Father Prem was abducted on June 2, 2014, from the Zendjan district of Afghanistan’s Herat province and released on February 22 the following […]
A lost cellphone led to a raid on a monastery, multiple arrests,a suicide and a secret trial of four Buddhist monks in 2020, says a recently released Human Watch Report. Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have prosecuted four monks who received up to 20 years in prison for dubious offenses, says Human […]
It is over five months since the military junta deposed Myanmar’s elected government, and the situation remains a human rights catastrophe. Efforts towards regional diplomacy have not borne results. The five-point plan adopted by ASEAN in April is yet to be implemented and has not resulted in any efforts towards de-escalation, or lessening of loss […]
A Muslim maulvi (cleric) who made headlines by officiating at the funeral for a sex worker in Bangladesh has faced a backlash from local Muslims. About a fortnight ago, Golam Mostafa, an imam at Daulatdia Railway Station Mosque in Rajbari district, broke a social taboo to perform final rites for Hamida Begum, a sex worker […]
The Chinese Ambassador, Sun Weidong, has recently praised India’s ‘kindness’ towards China in these troubled times. As social media circulates fake and half-true images of China and the coronavirus outbreak, both China and the UN agencies are understandably tense. China reiterated rumours about COVID-19 or cornavirus were terrible and had the potential to stigmatise Chinese […]
Four Indian pilots are currently in Russia training to become astronauts. India isplanning its first manned mission in space. Four Indian Air Force test pilots who have been chosen to be trainee astronauts for India’s first manned mission to space, expected in a couple of years, began their basic training for space missions at the […]
To all those bleeding heart ‘liberal’ Christian ‘activists’ demonstrating against the NRC in India and demanding that Rohingya Muslims should be included in the list of persecuted refugees, here’s a wake up call. Ever heard of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army militants? they are so-called Jihadists. Right inside the Bangladesh refugee camps. These creeps are […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on February 4, 2020 announced that the Corona Virus disease has not yet become pandemic. The disease has so far killed 425 people and has infected more than 20,000. Hong Kong recently reported death due to the virus. It is the first country outside China to report death. According to […]
