Author: Priya Saha

US President Joe Biden’s administration imposed economic sanctions on the Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group and two senior government officials in far-west Xinjiang over alleged human rights abuses in the region, the Treasury Department announced on Friday.The move has reportedly disrupted the company’s plans to sell shares in an initial public offering after it was trimmed by about half earlier this week.”Treasury is using its tools to expose and hold accountable perpetrators of serious human rights abuse,” said Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo, identifying SenseTime as being responsible for “human rights abuse enabled by the malign use…

Amid the already deteriorating condition of the minority communities in Pakistan, the country’s telecommunication regulator has begun an intuitional crackdown on minorities like Ahmadiyyas. Using the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the Imran Khan government is curbing information sharing by and among the Ahmadiyyas. The telecom regulator recently asked tech giants like Google and Apple to take down mobile applications in the country, created by developers based in other countries, according to The Singapore Post. As many as seven religious apps, published under the name “Ahmadiyya Muslim Community,” have…

Human rights activists in Bangladesh on World Human Rights Day protested against the blatant breach of human rights in China, Pakistan, and other countries. According to ANI, Bangladesh Social Activists Forum organized a “horse carts rally” to demonstrate against China’s ethnic cleansing of minority community Uyghurs and abuses against the minorities in Pakistan’s Balochistan. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on December 10, 1948, by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Bangladesh’s human rights activists marched in Dhaka in a “horse carts rally” to spread awareness about human rights and outline the crimes against humanity committed by Pakistan and…

A Uygur family harvests ripe grapes in Turpan, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/People’s Daily Online] Among the three measures on Xinjiang the US House of Representatives approved on Wednesday is a resolution “condemning” the so-called genocide and crimes against the Uygur people. Which exposes the political farce of Western countries. The fact is, instead of genocide like what white colonialists committed in what is today known as the United States of America, the Chinese authorities have implemented local people-favoring policies in Xinjiang. China has always adhered to a policy of balancing economic development with population growth, and accordingly…

During the 1971 war, US president Richard Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger, spent long hours discussing how they could ‘scare off the Indians’ by encouraging China to threaten India File image of Indian Army soldiers firing on Pakistani positions during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. AFP Fifty years ago, with India’s assistance, Bangladesh freed itself from Pakistani rule. The people of Bangladesh took up arms to fight for their independence when the Pakistani military junta launched a reign of terror on 25 March 1971, in what was then East Pakistan, massacring unarmed civilians and driving…

Dec 10 (Reuters) – Protesters in Myanmar closed businesses and stayed off the streets on Friday in a “silent strike” against rule by the military and its ousting of the Southeast Asian country’s democratically elected government in a February coup. Photos published by Myanmar media showed deserted streets and markets in towns across the country, while protesters in the northern city of Shwebo wore black clothes and marched in silence. “We need to send a message to the world about Myanmar’s terrible human rights violations,” protest leader Khin Sandar told media. “Silence is the loudest shout. We want our rights…

The Federal government announced advanced salaries for all its Christian employees. The announcement comes as the Christian community’s biggest religious festival Christmas nears. According to details, the finance ministry said it will afford advance salary payments to all Christians. It will also ensure the provision of pensions to its retired Christian workforce, both by December 20. Regarding this, the accountant general of Pakistan, military accountant general, chief accounts officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will disburse advance salaries to the Christian community. Read more: Pakistani celebrities spotted celebrating Christmas in full swing Needless to say, this is a welcoming…

He was a captain in the 64 Mountain regiment when India joined the war against Pakistan Col M.K. Govindan (75), a resident of Kannur, who was part of the Indian Army, which helped liberate Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971, would be part of the Indian Armed Veterans contingent, who are being invited to attend the Vijay Diwas celebration in Bangladesh on December 16. He was a captain in the 64 Mountain regiment when India joined the war against Pakistan. The regiment, which is the only pure Gorkha artillery regiment, had moved two and a half months before into Bhajanpur in…

It was quarter past 10 on a Thursday morning. Two middle-aged men sat reading out from prayer books inside a small library on the ground floor of the National Baha’i Centre in the Shantinagar area in Dhaka city. Behind them, there were three bookshelves packed with religious books of the Baha’i Faith. Except for the sound of the prayer, pin drop silence filled the room. “I come here regularly to say morning prayers because the place is quiet, the environment is calm,” said Mahmudul Haq, one of the two Baha’i middle-aged men, when their prayers ended. Haq, a writer and…

FILE – Chinese President Xi Jinping stands in front of national flags of China and Republic of Congo during a meeting with visting Congolese dignitaries at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 5, 2016. China on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, urged its citizens to leave three provinces in eastern Congo as violence intensifies in the mineral-rich region. (Ng Han Guan/AP) WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives voted Wednesday night to ban most imports from the Xinjiang region in China over concerns that goods were made there through the use of forced labor, as Western nations…

An awards ceremony with no artists – sounds bizarre, but that’s where the Grammy Awards are heading after several artists have refused to attend the show due to the institutional corruption and lack of diversity. Just recently the nominations list was released for the 64th Grammy’s which will take place on the 31st January 2022. After years of controversy, the awards ceremony chose to use an inclusion rider addendum for the 2022 recruitment process. The rider is meant to offer representation to marginalised groups such as “Black, Indigenous, Asian American & Pacific Islander, and other Non-Black people of color, those…

As the world observes International Human Rights Day on Friday, the Narendra Modi government in India continues to indiscriminately target the minorities with over 300 attacks in the first nine months of this year against Christians, making the country one of the worst for the community to live ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 9th Dec, 2021 ) :As the world observes International Human Rights Day on Friday, the Narendra Modi government in India continues to indiscriminately target the minorities with over 300 attacks in the first nine months of this year against Christians, making the country one of…