South Asia

Articles

• 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.

• India: Mohammad Zubair Walks Out of Jail After Supreme Court Grants Bail
  21 July 2022, by siawi3

  Zubair was released from jail at 9:12 pm on July 20. Lawyer said: “In this age of digital age, the job of someone who is debunking false information may draw the ire of others. But the law cannot be weaponised against him…"

• India: Standing up for Left literature—In India, it can cost you your life
  22 February 2020, by siawi3

  Govind Pansare’s assassination is one among many of left-wing writers, and of course left-wing activists. Bookstores have been attacked; publishers have been threatened. No country is immune. We have seen this in the United States and in the United Kingdom, and then in India and Brazil. There is not only a growth of far-right thuggery, which conducts this violence, but also of obscurantist and irrational thinking. The rise of neo-fascistic politicians and parties gives respectability to the scum who take up the gun and the rod to attack and kill people like Pansare.

• Pakistan: A sham democracy
  18 August 2020, by siawi3

  Is a provincial assembly competent to make laws in the domain of religious affairs? There are weighty reasons for not allowing a provincial assembly the power to make a law relating to religious affairs. Such a law will divide the country’s Muslim community because it will affect the provincial population only and place the rest of the country’s Muslim population at an advantage or at a disadvantage.

• India: The West Bengal Elections of 2021: Populist Right wins, Fascists Gain and the Left Disappears The Rise and Collapse of Left Voting Bases in Bengal
  12 June 2021, by siawi3

  This is the most right-wing Bengal Assembly elected not only in independent India, but even going back to the Government of India Act 1935 and the elections of 1937.

• Sri Lanka: Government cancels probe into sexual harassment in the media industry
  2 August 2021, by siawi3

  The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates, the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Federation of Media Employees’ Trade Union (FMETU) urge the Sri Lankan government not to delay the investigations into the issue.

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