Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the security forces in Myanmar of waging a “Buddhist terror” against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. Erdogan, who has repeatedly highlighted the plight of the Rohingya, again accused the Yangon government of carrying out a “genocide” against the people in Rakhine state. In a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan lamented the failure of the international community to lay sanctions against the Myanmar government over its campaign. “There is a very clear…
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Senate committee holds law enforcement agencies responsible for missing persons
The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights’ Chairperson, Nasreen Jalil, on Monday accused law enforcement agencies of abducting people and “asked” them to to investigate the missing persons case. “They [disappeared individuals] are not even presented in court and [only] their tortured corpses are found later,” she alleged. Jalil asked how anyone could obey the law if law enforcement agencies themselves do not abide by it. The committee further observed that cases of several missing persons have not even been registered. Senator Farhatullah Babar of the PPP added that the…
Read MoreImran Khan submits reply to ECP in contempt of court case
Imran Khan’s lawyer Babar Awan submitted the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) supremo’s reply to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the contempt of court case on Monday. The election body, in its short order, said that it would review the reply on September 27 and then give its judgement. The ECP was hearing a contempt of court petition against Imran Khan filed by party dissident and one of PTI’s founding members, Akbar S. Babar. The petition had argued that the PTI chief, in a reply to the commission in another case regarding…
Read MoreNorway: Extremists run Indian Government today, says Tariq Ali
Report by Tariq Mohammad UK based Left Wing famous activist of Pakistan’s origin Tariq Ali has accused that the current Indian government is being run by the extremists. He was talking at a seminar on Politics, History and Culture which was organized by Melahuset in Oslo, the capital city. Tariq Ali has been a leading figure of the international left wing since the 60s. He is writing for the Guardian newspaper since the 70s. He is also a long-standing editor of the New Left Review and a political commentator…
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لوٹن : تنظیم بزم ادب لوٹن کی جانب سے گذشتہ دنوں لوٹن کے ٹاون ہال میں ادبی مجلس منعقد کی گئی۔ محفل کے دوران صدارت بزم ادب لوٹن کے چیئرمین لارڈ قربان حسین چوہدری نے کی جبکہ تقریب کے مہمان خصوصی معروف شاعر، ادیب، صحافی اور مرثیہ خواں سید صفدرہمدانی تھے۔ پروگرام کا آغاز تلاوت سے ہوا جس کی سعات راجہ عجائب خان نے کی۔ انھوں نے اپنی خوبصورت میں نعت بھی پیش کی۔ اس موقع پر تنظیم کے وائس چیئرمین سید حسین شہید سرور نے نظامت کے فرائض انجام…
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