South Asia

Articles

• India: So what if a Muslim man and a Hindu girl willingly lock lips?
  9 December 2020, by siawi3

  For the hundreds of thousands of us who refuse to accept that a knife or a gun, or a bomb or riots can ever be a justifiable response to a book or an image, our work is cut out and it is to remind others of why this intolerance is so poisonous, of why it’s not ever merely about culture or hurt sentiments, of why it’s simply a sneaky back way for reactionary obscurantists to gain and retain power.

• India: Online petition demanding Modi’s resignation gathers over 4 lakh signatures overnight!
  5 May 2021, by siawi3

  Petition demands Modi regime’s ouster from the centre after the BJP was summarily trounced in West Bengal. A Change.org petition demands that Prime Minister take responsibility for mismanagement of the escalating Covid-19 crisis

• En Afghanistan, l’armée demande l’évacuation de Lashkar Gah, au moins 40 civils tués en vingt-quatre heures
  3 août 2021, par siawi3

  Les talibans mènent depuis trois mois une offensive tous azimuts au cours de laquelle ils se sont emparés de vastes territoires ruraux. Onze radios et quatre chaînes de télévision étaient coupées en raison des attaques ou des menaces des talibans dans la province du Helmand. L’armée afghane compte chasser les talibans de la capitale de la province méridionale du Helmand, où les combats font rage. L’ONU déplore de nombreux morts et blessés parmi les civils.

• Afghanistan : désespérés, des parents font passer leurs enfants par les murs de l’aéroport de Kaboul
  24 août 2021, par siawi3

  DÉTRESSE - Plusieurs images témoignent de parents qui ont fait le choix désespéré de confier leurs enfants à des soldats occidentaux afin qu’ils puissent quitter Kaboul, tombée aux mains des talibans. A défaut de pouvoir se mettre en sécurité, certains parents veulent laisser une chance à leur enfant, celle de s’envoler à bord de l’un de ces avions.

• Pakistan: Mob sets Charsadda police station on fire after officials refuse to hand over alleged blasphemy suspect
  30 November 2021, by siawi3

  Police managed to shift the suspect to a safe location. The situation is still tense in the area.

• Sri Lanka: The true face of ‘One Country, One Law’
  23 December 2021, by siawi3

  The current President has long since embraced ethnonationalism in the name of political expediency. Gnanasara Thero is the embodiment of ethno-religious nationalism and a deeply polarising figure, willing to use violence to bring about Sinhala-Buddhist hegemony in the country. The planned proposals to ban the burqa, shut down madrasas or Islamic schools, and the recent cattle-slaughter ban are all part of a basket of legal reforms designed and planned to subjugate and oppress Sri Lanka’s Muslim minorities.

• Ayesha Malik, première femme juge nommée à la Cour suprême du Pakistan
  12 janvier 2022, par siawi3

  Ayesha Malik, qui fait partie de l’Association internationale des femmes juges, et a consacré sa carrière à la défense des droits des femmes, s’était fait connaître l’année dernière en interdisant les tests de virginité sur les femmes ayant subi un viol. En rendant ce verdict, qui s’applique dans l’État du Pendjab, elle avait déclaré : « Il s’agit d’une pratique humiliante, qui est utilisée pour jeter la suspicion sur la victime, au lieu de se concentrer sur l’accusé et l’incident de violence sexuelle. »

• India: An Alternate Vision of Justice
  22 July 2022, by siawi3

  In a conversation with independent researcher, writer and women’s rights activist, Sahba Husain, Dakshayani’s daughter and policy analyst, Meera Velayudhan remembers her mother and the varied ways in which she shaped the history of not just her community but also the nation.

• Pakistan urges West to lift sanctions on Iran
  21 March 2020, by siawi3

  Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani had last week written letters to his counterparts across the world including Prime Minister Khan informing them how his country’s fight against Covid-19 was being impaired by the US sanctions. He had urged other countries to stop observing the American sanctions against his country. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, too, wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanding that the US curbs be removed.

• India: Essaying The Muslims: Some Issues In The Indian Freedom Movement And After
  28 September 2020, by siawi3

  “To a region that has experienced the trauma of partition the life of (Maulana) Azad shows how during the freedom struggle there were Muslims who worked for the highest secular ideals.” It is ultimately Gandhi, Maulana Azad and Nehru who stood together in support of non-denominational Indian nationhood and in enabling, establishing and supporting the possibility of a composite and secular India.

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