Author: Priya Saha

Pakistan, harbinger of peacePAKISTAN is promoting religious vibes in the region by facilitating various ethnic communities.It is the only country in South Asia where minorities are living in a peaceful way. However, there are certain quarters in the region such as Indian and previous Ghani-led Afghan governments that deliberately and continuously tried to malign Pakistan over flimsy grounds.On the other hand, Pakistan kept facilitating minorities by giving them their due rights. While out eastern neighbour India is following its traditional Hindutva approach by making the life of minorities, especially the Muslims miserable.This tendency of BJP is putting regional cooperation in…

Sat Jan 1, 2022 12:00 AM Last update on: Sat Jan 1, 2022 01:22 AM This little strip of an alleyway has been perfectly transformed into a safe place for children to play in and the adults to socialise in. The photo was taken in Vietnam. Photo: Courtesy”> This little strip of an alleyway has been perfectly transformed into a safe place for children to play in and the adults to socialise in. The photo was taken in Vietnam. Photo: Courtesy Have you ever watched kittens, puppies, or other baby animals play? Running, chasing, jumping, nipping. Young goats scramble up…

FILE PHOTO: Refugees, who fled a flare-up in fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic minority rebels, stand at a temporary shelter in Mae Sot district, Tak province, on Monday. (Reuters) Over 4,400 people from Myanmar have fled into the country since Thursday last week to escape clashes between government soldiers and an armed ethnic minority group, the Thai military said Wednesday. As the fighting between Myanmar’s ruling military and the Karen National Union intensifies in south-eastern Kayin State and more refugees cross the border into Tak province, authorities have been tasked with accommodating them in temporary shelters and providing…

The realities and attitudes to faith and community of Arab Christians are starkly different from their Western counterparts, because they are immersed and shaped by the manifold struggles surrounding them, writes Harry Hagopian. Father Emmanuel Gharib, Chairman of the National Evangelical Church of Kuwait and Pastor of the Kuwaiti Presbyterian Church, leads a Christmas mass at the National Evangelical Church in Kuwait City on 24 December 2021. [Getty]Being in my groaning fifties, I am long enough in the tooth to know that faith is not usually static. It is often a struggle, at times frustrating and at others rewarding, that…

Fresh bid to review ethnically-charged cases In December, ethnically-charged terror trials returned to the spotlight when the Social Democrat-led government accepted a demand from a small Albanian party called Alternative for an international investigation into several of these cases. But the deal, which saw Alternative join the government, raised more questions than it answered. First, Alternative party spokesperson Orhan Murtezani revealed that, under the deal, Prime Minsiter Zoran Zaev had agreed to an “international investigation” into the contested court cases, to resolve suspicions of “political influence”. The most notable cases are the 2012 Skopje mass murder and the shootout in…

COX’S BAZAR: Authorities in Bangladesh’s main tourist resort scrapped a dedicated beach section for women and children after a social media outcry over gender segregation, officials said on Thursday. On Wednesday afternoon, Cox’s Bazar officials inaugurated a section of the shoreline on the world’s longest natural sea beach as an exclusive zone for women and children. But hours later, the administration issued a press release saying that it had “withdrawn its decision” after “negative comments”. Abu Sufian, a senior official in Cox’s Bazar, said the section had been created following requests from conservative women in the Muslim-majority country. “They requested…

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved a Rs513 million project to construct and rehabilitate 109 worships places and residential colonies of minorities across the province. Officials told Dawn that the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in its meeting on Wednesday approved the project, which will benefit a large number of the province’s minority population. The details available with Dawn show that the highest numbers of 19 projects have been allocated to Peshawar. In addition to this, 10 projects are located in Kohat district, 17 in Lower Chitral, nine in Abbottabad and 11 in Mardan. Besides eight projects are in…

By Our Reporter SHILLONG, Dec 30: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) on Thursday slammed the BJP-led central government for allegedly suppressing the minorities.The students’ body said such behaviour of the Centre was evident from the frequent attacks on the Christians in various parts of the country, passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the non-implementation of Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state.“There is a big question on the Centre’s double standard attitude. At a time when the people of the state were demanding the implementation of ILP to protect the interests of the indigenous population, the Centre instead brought…

In the eyes of Pakistani spy agency Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), India, Hindus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are the prime enemies. It particularly sees BJP and RSS as “major enemies”. For these reasons, ISI wants to expedite its agenda of luring Hindus towards religious conversion. A large number of Muslim nations are injecting millions of dollars through ISI in “increasing the number of Muslim populations” in India. They think, increase in the number of Muslim populations would pave the path to implementing the notorious agenda of Ghazwa-e-Hind or conquest of India.…

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South Asia is home to about a quarter of the world’s population. Sprawling over eight countries, the region is a vibrant mosaic of various ethnicities, religions, cultures and languages. And the region—having turned around after independence from the shackles of centuries of colonisation by the West—is all set to embrace the next big growth spurt, with many of the countries already being on an upward growth trajectory. Despite the economic brunt of the global pandemic, South Asia is expected to achieve a 7.1 percent growth by 2022 as per the World Bank’s recent South Asia Economic Focus, titled Shifting Gears:…

China is developing brain-control weapons that can be used to paralyze and control opponents rather than kill them, the US has claimed. America has sanctioned the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 affiliated research institutes for using “biotechnology” to support its armed forces, including “alleged brain control weapons.” The Commerce Ministry, which has blacklisted China’s institutions, did not go into detail about the weapons, but a separate tranche of military documents written in 2019 hints at what Beijing is trying to achieve. Instead of “destroying bodies,” China should focus on “stunning and controlling the adversary” by “attacking the…