Prominent Hindu community leader from Balochistan, Santosh Kumar Bugti, is all praise for former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif “for his efforts to empower the religious minority communities of Pakistan”, Daily Pakistan reported. Bugti, who has served as minority member of the provincial Balochistan Assembly, was speaking to Pakistani media after holding talks with the former Prime Minister at his son Hasan Nawaz Sharif’s office near Hyde Park. Bugti, who is in London to meet Nawaz Sharif and former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, said he discussed the latest situation of the country with the former premier and conveyed the best…
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As many as three million people were believed to have been killed, up to 200,000 women were violated and over 10 million people were forced to cross the border to India to seek shelter during the 1971 Operation Searchlight launched by the Pakistan army International conference held in Hague on Thursday where speakers demanded international recognition of the Bangladesh genocide. ANI Bangladesh observed a ‘one-minute blackout’ on Friday to mark ‘Genocide Day’, in memory of the three million people killed by Pakistani forces during the 1971 Liberation War. The ‘blackout’ was observed for one minute from 9:00 pm to 9:01 pm across the…
Beth Mooney battled gale-force winds, frigid temperatures and fading light to guide Australia to a five-wicket win over Bangladesh on Friday to ensure it finished the group stages of the Women’s World Cup with an unbeaten record.Mooney made 66 not out and combined in an unbroken 65-run partnership with Annabel Sutherland (26 not out) to ensure Australia reached its winning target with 65 balls to spare.The match at Wellington’s Basin Reserve began late because of rain and was reduced to 43 overs per side. It was played in a southerly gale so strong — with gusts topping 100 kph (60…
California Three US Muslims sue over questioning LOS ANGELES — Three Muslim Americans filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that U.S. border officers questioned them about their religious beliefs in violation of their constitutional rights when they returned from international travel. The three men sued Department of Homeland Security officials in a federal court in Los Angeles. The lawsuit was filed in California because some of the questioning allegedly occurred at Los Angeles International Airport. In the lawsuit, the men claimed that U.S. border officers at land crossings and international airports peppered them with questions about whether they were…
The United States on Monday officially declared that Myanmar military violence against Rohingya Muslims that sent more than 700,000 fleeing amounted to “genocide”. It is the latest chapter in the long and tumultuous history of the group, the world’s largest stateless population. Roughly a million Rohingya lived in Rakhine state, in the west of Buddhist-majority Myanmar, before many of them were forced from the restive region during a 2017 military crackdown. But the questions over their origins and identity are hotly disputed, highly emotive and behind much of the recent unrest. – A long history – By some accounts, the…
1.47am EDT 01:47 Australia remain unbeaten – seven wins from seven now. They were tested at times today by a brave Bangladesh, whose spin bowling impressed. The weather also played a part, sometimes comically so, and it wasn’t an easy outing for either team. But the tournament favourites are living up to their billing and the semi-finals await next week. For Bangladesh, their hopes of an unlikely semi-final appearance are officially over, but they will play England on Sunday in their final game in New Zealand and could yet have a say in who reaches the final four. Please do…
Working carers attracted a lot of attention during the pandemic as they had more to cope with than most. As we move towards hybrid working and shape new policies, Charlotte Woodworth and Kelly Beaver look at how organisations can support working carers with the juggles they face. While much taking place in the UK and beyond right now threatens progress around equality and inclusion – from the cost-of-living crisis to the pandemic – there are also new opportunities to drive positive change, and nowhere is this truer than in the working world. Shifting norms around where work is done and…
That girls and women are not safe anywhere in Pakistan is fact. The same goes for religious minorities in the country – and minority women are extremely vulnerable to discrimination and violence. The latest in the long list of crimes against minority women is the coldblooded murder of an 18-year-old girl from the Hindu community, Pooja Kumari, who was shot dead on Monday in Sukkur while resisting attempted abduction. According to reports, she had refused to marry the assailant, who is believed to have entered her house with two accomplices and shot her. The police have arrested the suspect and…
03/24/2022 Bangladesh (International Christian Concern) – The Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) held a press conference this last Tuesday accusing the ruling party, the Awami League, of failing to uphold their promise of protecting religious minorities in the country. Before their election in 2018, (an election with widespread reports of vote-rigging), the Awami League promised to enact the Minority Protection Act. This law would rectify the lack of special provisions for the protection and promotion of, among other minority factions, Christians. One of the presidents of the interfaith forum reported the progress of these promises to UCA News, “Needless to…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — China’s foreign minister made a surprise stop in Kabul on Thursday to meet Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, even as the international community fumes over the hard-line movement’s broken promise a day earlier to open schools to girls beyond the sixth grade. The official Bakhtar News Agency announced Wang Yi will meet with Taliban leaders “to discuss various issues including the extension of political relations, economic, and transit cooperation.” The Taliban, who swept to power last August with the chaotic end to 20 years of war by a U.S. and NATO coalition, have been seeking international recognition in…
New research found an increase in age-associated heart disease and stroke deaths from 2011 – 2019, while the risk-associated number of heart disease and stroke deaths decreased.In comparison, data show a several-fold increase in risk-associated deaths from heart disease and stroke from 2019 – 2020, with greater increases among members of racial and ethnic minority groups.“The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with conditions that likely contributed to risk associated increased HD and stroke mortality,” wrote study author Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanete Northern California. Investigators examined the relative contributions of aging versus underlying disease risk in the total…
AdvertisementAs a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based solely on principles derived from the material world. As a political system, secularism is commonly defined as the separation of religion from the state. Arguably, this is diametrically opposed to Islam, which maintains that religion regulates and instructs all aspects of a person’s life.However, on a practical level, secularism does not necessarily mean the complete exclusion of religion from the public life of a society. Instead, it will be more productive to discuss secularism as it is actually understood and experienced by different societies, each in its own unique context.Certainly, due…