South Asia

Articles

• Indian Foreign Policy: From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment
  21 December 2022, by siawi3

  Foreign policy under PM Modi must remain geared to multi-alignment to secure India’s interests in a disordered world order.

• Resource on blasphemy law in Pakistan and on Christian converts
  13 April 2021, by siawi3

  2 extensive documents on blasphemy laws

• Afghanistan : « Ce massacre est à nouveau une preuve de ce dont les talibans sont capables » estime Amnesty International
  21 août 2021, par siawi3

  Neuf villageois de la minorité chiite Hazara ont été tués et torturés par les talibans début juillet en Afghanistan. Les talibans sont responsables de « près de la moitié des décès civils » en 2020.

• India: Karnataka Veil Issue: Should Muslims Choose the Veil Over Education?
  1 February 2022, by siawi3

  This demand is not coming from all Muslim girls but only from a tiny minority bringing out the contested nature of the veil within Muslim society. If the veil is banned, what about Hindu religious symbols? Why such secularizing zeal is seen with regard to symbols of Islamic faith only? Amidst the intransigence of the college administration and political Islam, one can only hope that the education of Muslim girls does not become a casualty.

• India: Madhya Pradesh-16-Year-Old Dalit Girl Beaten up for Sitting in the Front Row, Teacher Booked
  24 August 2022, by siawi3

  In the police complaint, Anjana Saket (name changed), a student of class 12^th, alleged that when the teacher Jagriti Singh entered the classroom that day, she was enraged after seeing Saket on the front bench of the class. She subsequently passed casteist slurs and hit Saket with the book on her head multiple times.

• Pakistan: Professor sentenced to death for ’blasphemy’
  22 December 2019, by siawi3

  After several years of solitary confinement, 33-year-old Junaid Hafeez who used to used to teach English at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy. One of his lawyers was shot dead after threats were made against him in the courtroom. Even the presiding judge was threatened that if Hafeez was not awarded death sentence the judge himself will not be speared.

• Pakistan: Schools, madressahs to have one curriculum
  26 January 2020, by siawi3

  Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has said that a national curriculum developed with the input of all stakeholders will be implemented across private and public schools as well as madressahs.

• Pakistan mourns the death of human rights defender I.A. Rehman
  13 April 2021, by siawi3

  An iconic Pakistani human rights defender and journalist, I.A. Rehman spent his life defending human rights, opposing military dictators, fighting for the rule of law and democracy. He was a strong voice for the country’s minorities including Christians and Hindus and an advocate of peace between India and Pakistan.

• Biden Admitted War In Afghanistan Is Becoming A Somalia-Like Drone War
  21 August 2021, by siawi3

  Pakistani President Imran Khan bluntly rebuffed requests by the CIA to use his country for future operations across the Afghan border after the US withdrawal.

• India: ’Dostojee’ Tells the Story of Communal Division Seen Through the Innocence of Childhood
  1 November 2021, by siawi3

  Set in a West Bengal village on the border with Bangladesh in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition, Prasun Chatterjee’s film explores the changing dynamics of everyday interactions as the country comes to terms with a fast-spreading communal divide.

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