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LONDON: The UK is building a war memorial to the millions of Muslim soldiers who served alongside British and Commonwealth forces during the two world wars, Sky News reported. The 13.2-meter-tall monument, which has been several years in the planning, will stand at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. ...

England spinner Shoaib Bashir was denied entry to India as a British Pakistani The 20-year-old has flown back to Britain to get his visa rubber stampedHe will miss the first Test against India in Hyderabad, which starts on Thursday By David Lloyd for the Daily Mail Published: 22:30 GMT, 23 January ...

Johannesburg —  Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has made an impassioned plea for what she calls “gender apartheid” to be made a crime under international law. Speaking at an event in South Africa, Yousafzai called on the world to pay attention to what’s happening to girls and women under Taliban ...

A United Nations expert said on Monday that the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls could amount to gender apartheid as their rights continue to be gravely infringed by the country's de facto authorities."Grave, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against women and girls is at the heart of Taliban ...

Bruce Haigh, an Australian diplomat who brushed aside the protocols of his profession to offer covert support to anti-apartheid figures in South Africa, including the banned newspaper editor depicted in the movie “Cry Freedom,” died on April 7 in Australia. He was 77.His sister, Christina Henderson, told Australian news ...

For South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, the link between Israel and apartheid is so obvious that she is basing the country’s diplomatic policy on it.In parliament this week, Pandor spoke of her acceptance of this branding. She used it as the basis of her call for further downgrading ...

Amnesty International accused Israel of apartheid this week, which has led to widespread critique of the organization.Foreign Minister Yair Lapid slammed the organization. Nevertheless Amnesty doubled down Tuesday, noting that “Apartheid is deprivation. Apartheid is segregation. Apartheid is fragmentation. Apartheid is dispossession. Israel’s apartheid over Palestinians is a crime ...

JOHANNESBURG — One of South Africa’s top film producers squinted at a monitor as a hush settled over the crew. Cameras zoomed in on an actress playing a dealer of fine art — chicly dressed in a pencil skirt made from bold African textiles — who offered a coy ...

#Pakistan News A Kashmir rights group described the communications blackout imposed by India following last year’s scrapping of the disputed region’s semi-autonomy as “collective punishment” and urged the international community to take action. A rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir has published a report highlighting the consequences of a punitive ...

The Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, or JKCCS, on Tuesday called the communications blockade in the Union Territory “digital apartheid” and a form of collective punishment unleashed by the Indian government on the people. Presently, only 2G connectivity is permitted in most parts of the Kashmir Valley. On ...