Thu 23 March 2023: The UK has officially launched an independent investigation into allegations that British armed forces committed dozens of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013. The investigation, which was first announced in December, will also look into whether the UK military investigated allegations of unlawful killings of civilians by British forces […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: The US Department of State has slammed India once again in its latest report on human rights issues across the world, flagging “extrajudicial killings”, “lack of accountability for official misconduct”, and an “overburdened and under-resourced” judicial system. Released Tuesday, the 57-page document titled ‘2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’ — also known as the […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: About six months after catastrophic floods in Pakistan, more than 10 million people still lack access to safe drinking water in areas affected by the record-breaking rains, according to a United Nations report. Families living in flood-hit areas have “no alternative but to drink and use potentially disease-ridden water”, the UN […]
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Wed 22 March 2023: New Delhi: Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud has said that a special bench will be constituted by the Supreme Court to hear the pleas challenging the premature release of 11 convicts by the Gujarat government in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case. “I will have a bench constituted. Will look at it this […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: A strong earthquake has struck Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. According to the US Geological Survey, the centre of the magnitude 6.5 quake, was located 40km Southeast of Jurm, in Afghanistan’s Hindukush region. Accroding to the Pakistan’s meteorological office, the earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 and was felt in the capital Islamabad […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, for formal talks at the Kremlin on Tuesday, the second day of his three-day trip. It’s Xi’s first visit, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine — and Beijing has billed the trip as a peace mission, but has not yet indicated, […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: The UK’s Ministry of Defence has apologised after asking Afghan asylum seekers in hiding to get their documents stamped by the Taliban, the very people they are trying to flee. Human rights groups have recorded how the Taliban have banned peaceful protests, executed alleged resistance fighters and suppressed women’s rights. Yet […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Moscow for a state visit and talks with President Vladimir Putin, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Monday. A plane with Xi landed at landed at the Vnukovo-2 airport in Moscow. Xi Jinping will visit Moscow from March 20-22 at the invitation of Russian President […]
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Jabir and other protesters at Ghatmeeka Eidgah in Rajasthan. Sun 19 March 2023: Children of Junaid still have hope that their father will visit them one day and deliver cookies, a month after his passing. As hundreds of cars visited the village in the last month, the children woke up to every car’s sound thinking […]
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Sun 19 March 2023: As Sikh hardliner Amritpal Singh is still at large, the day after Punjab Police launched a massive manhunt to nab him, Jalandhar police chief Kuldeep Chahal termed it a game of “chor-police”. In a statement to the media on March 19, Chahal refuted accusations of improper management of the circumstance. He said, “It […]
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