Tag: plight

Elite-bashing is Pakistan’s newest sport. As the country stares into the default abyss, the ubiquitous phrase – ‘elite state capture’ – putati­vely explains all that has gone awry. Fat-cats are blamed for stealing public resources, conspicuous consumption and dollar flight. But this super-sim­p­lified, sophomoric reasoning misses the real point.Doesn’t ...

When the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, thousands of Afghans fled the country fearing curbs on freedoms. Cartoonist Sayed Muhammad Hussainy was one of them. The 29-year-old artist, who has taken refuge in Germany, said he feared the Taliban would target him for working with the previous ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 10: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday attacked the BJP over protests by Kashmiri Pandit employees, alleging that the saffron party’s “use, discard and betray” policy is responsible for their plight.“Kashmiri Pandit employees are protesting for over 245+ days, demanding their ‘right to life’ & ‘relocation’. ...

Russia's war against Ukraine has triggered a large movement of refugees toward the West. Some 4.8 million people were aregistered as temporary protection seekers by the UN Refugee Agency through early December, mainly in the eastern European Union: Poland, Germany, the Baltics, Romania and Slovakia. Depending on the course ...

There are around six such transit camps across Kashmir where these employees are living. But since Bhat’s killing in May, most of them have left for Jammu where they have been regularly participating in protests against the administration.According to the protesting employees, the J&K government has been withholding their ...

.Accusing the Narendra Modi government of being "insensitive" to the pain of the common people due to "back-breaking" price rise, the Congress claimed that its Mehangai Par Halla Bol rally on Sunday at Delhi's historic Ram Lila Maidan aims to wake the government up.Ahead of the Sunday rally, general ...

EXPLAINERFive years after crackdown by security forces led to mass exodus from Myanmar, Rohingya remain stuck in ‘cruel limbo’.Five years ago, a violent campaign by security forces in Myanmar sparked a mass exodus of about 730,000 Rohingya, who – carrying their belongings on their backs and sometimes crowding onto ...

#Pakistan News India’s Muslim population of about 204 million, remains uniquely invisible to the world despite increasingly becoming one of the most hostile places for minorities. The national spokesperson of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nupur Sharma recently came under fire for her derogatory comments against the Prophet ...

DHAKA, BangladeshThe UN refugee agency and the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh jointly organized a photo exhibition on Monday in the capital Dhaka to highlight the plight of Rohingya refugees on the occasion of the World Refugee Day.The exhibition titled “We are Rohingya” presented the work of 10 Rohingya ...

By Md. KamruzzamanDHAKA, BangladeshThe forgotten victims of Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence are no longer stateless, but they are still waiting to be rescued from squalid, makeshift camps.After decades of being abandoned by both Pakistan and Bangladesh, nearly a half-million Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants are urging rehabilitation in better places ...