South Asia

Articles

• The Tradition of Protest Music in Contemporary India
  22 March 2020, by siawi3

  Songs, which have occupied a prominent place in the anti-CAA protest movements, draw from a tradition whose history can be traced back to the late anti-colonial period. Ever since December 15, 2019, when anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests started in full swing, from murals and street-art to poetry and songs, voices burst through with artistic expression. Songs have especially occupied a prominent place. There has been a proliferation of bands and individuals that have used rap and rock music to point attention to political issues in different parts of the country.

• In Pakistan, Muslim Clerics Rape Kids. Almost All Get Away With It.
  16 April 2020, by siawi3

  ’They have been able to hide the widespread abuse by accusing victims of blasphemy or defamation of Islam.’

• Pakistan: Different gods
  15 November 2020, by siawi3

  For us, the world can go to hell in a hand-basket as long as our mediaeval practices don’t change. We can consume as much dope as we want, beat our wives, starve our children, rob and kill as long as we observe our ignorant grasp of Islamic laws.

• Pakistan: The new Afghanistan challenge
  11 July 2021, by siawi3

  Pakistan’s political leadership needs to do more to prepare for a spillover of the Afghan conflict

• India: Open the doors to all Afghans
  20 August 2021, by siawi3

  Not all end of bad news is good news. The war may have ended for the Americans but they should not forget the war hasn’t ended for the Afghans. Will all of India’s opposition political parties stand up express solidarity in a joint statement for the people of Afghanistan.

• Afghanistan : un haut responsable taliban tuĂ© dans l’attentat contre l’hĂ´pital militaire de Kaboul
  4 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  Au moins 19 personnes ont Ă©tĂ© tuĂ©es et 50 blessĂ©es mardi dans une attaque contre l’hĂ´pital Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan, le plus grand hĂ´pital militaire du pays, revendiquĂ©e par la branche afghane (EI-K) de l’État islamique. Parmi les victimes figure le chef des forces militaires talibanes Ă  Kaboul, Hamdullah Mokhlis.

• Pakistan: 17 killed in a blast; 2 killed, 4 injured in suicide attack
  23 December 2021, by siawi3

  Blasts and attacks continue in Pakistan

• India: Separate lives
  3 April 2022, by siawi3

  The virus that continues to devour India’s body-politic — religion and casteism — remain central to institutionalized differentiation here

• Statement on Afghanistan, by Ms Sima Bahous, UN Women Executive Director
  14 May 2022, by siawi3

  We urgently call on the de facto authorities to respect their obligations under human rights law and the full human rights of women and girls, including the immediate restoration of women’s and girls’ independent freedom of movement, and their rights to work and to education to the highest level.

• Pakistan’s Women’s March: Shaking patriarchy ’to its core’
  22 March 2020, by siawi3

  Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan’s main urban centres to mark International Women’s Day. It is the third successive year that the Aurat March, women’s march, has been held in the country. The theme for this year’s march was “Mera Jism, Meri Marzi” (My body, my choice).

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