Washington, March 21 (IANS) A US resolution seeking to recognise the 1971 Bangladesh genocide highlights the targeted killing of Hindus and calls for action against the Pakistan Army and its allies.Congressman Greg Landsman introduced the measure in the House of Representatives, urging formal US recognition of the atrocities and accountability for the Pakistan Army and Jamaat-e-Islami over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.The resolution condemns the atrocities committed during Oper…
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Quetta, March 20 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) held a seminar in Balochistan’s Surab district, highlighting systemic challenges and repression faced by communities across the province, accusing Pakistani authorities of using legal mechanisms to silence dissent. Held as part of the BYC’s ongoing month-long awareness campaign, the event drew attention to the human rights abuses by the Pakistani authorities and the “unjust detention” of its chief organiser, Mahran…
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has called on the international community, including the United Nations, to take principled, coordinated action against what it described as Beijing’s ongoing “institutionalisation of a coercive security-and-control system” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities call the region “an occupied country” currently under China’s “colonial rule”. The E…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Horror stories have been emerging from Balochistan, where severe violence has broken out over the past couple of days. With the Pakistan establishment facing severe losses at the hands of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), fears of the ‘kill and dump’ policy have surfaced yet again. The ‘kill and dump’ policy has been used by the Pakistan Army and ISI several times in the past. This operation has been carried out to silence voices who have spoken out against t…
Quetta, Feb 4 (IANS) The Baloch National Movement (BNM) stated that the enforced disappearance of its Chairman Naseem Baloch’s father and close relatives by Pakistani forces is not an isolated incident; instead, it is part of a decade-long pattern of systematic policies aimed at collectively punishing the people of Balochistan.”The enforced disappearance of the BNM Chairman’s father and close relatives is neither an isolated nor an exceptional incident. Rather, it is part of a long-standing, sys…
Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) Kashmiri Hindu advocacy groups in the United States on Monday (Indian time) renewed their call for justice, restoration and secure rehabilitation of the community, marking January 19 as Exodus Day.In a statement, the Kashmir Hindu Foundation and Panun Kashmir described the date as a reminder of what they called the systematic displacement of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley.The groups said January 19 symbolises a “deliberate and sustained process of ethnic cleansing” tha…
Quetta, Dec 24 (IANS) Leading Baloch human rights defender, Mir Yar Baloch, on Wednesday accused Pakistan’s deep state of the escalating incidents of mob lynching, hate-driven violence, and targeted attacks against the Hindu community in Bangladesh.The human rights activists stated that these acts of communal unrest, deliberately targeting peaceful Hindus, which have intensified in Bangladesh following the fall of the Awami League government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, represente…
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Tara Chand, President of Baloch American Congress, on Tuesday slammed Pakistan’s Punjab province Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif over the development of the region, stating that her claims are built on the blood and lives of people in Balochistan.Taking X, Chand said, “Chief Minister of Pakistani Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, you make fiery claims about development in Punjab, boasting of projects like the Green Line and the Orange Line. You know very well that this so-called…
Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri turned philosophical as he reflected on the human quest for the divine. Speaking about the limitations of certainty in debates on God, he pondered how both faith and reason often fall short of capturing the infinite. In his latest post on Instagram, the filmmaker urged everyone to rethink the questions they ask about existence. Vivek posted a picture which has text, “Does God Exist? A third argument.” In the caption, Vivek Agnihotri wrote, “E…