Thu 16 March 2023: Anti-conversion laws promulgated by various state governments in India violate international human rights treaties signed by the county, a new report from the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) observed. An issue update released by USCIRF on Tuesday (March 14) examines the anti-conversion laws promulgated in 12 states in India. It […]
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Heaps of expired shell are placed on the table of Imran Khan. Wed 15 March 2023: A court in the Pakistani city of Lahore has ordered the immediate halt of a two-day operation to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan until Thursday morning. Security forces first attempted to take the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party […]
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Wed 15 March 2023: The PTI alleged on Wednesday that party chief Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore was “under extreme attack” as it posted footage of armed law enforcement personnel opening fire. In a tweet from its official account posted at 11:48am today, PTI shared a video alleging “open firing by Rangers and […]
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Tue 14 March 2023: Protests broke out in major cities on Tuesday at the call of PTI Chairman Imran Khan as police and party workers continued to clash outside his Zaman Park residence in Lahore. Intermittent tear gas shelling is ongoing at Zaman Park as police is currently camped out at a security barrier outside […]
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Tue 14 March 2023: Lahore in Pakistan has jumped more than 10 places to become the city with the worst air in the world in 2022, according to an annual global survey by a Swiss maker of air purifiers. The report published on Tuesday by IQAir also said Pakistan stood third among the countries with […]
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Tue 14 March 2023: China is planning to host an unprecedented summit attended by senior officials from Iran and its six Arab neighbours of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), according to the Wall Street Journal. The summit would take place in Beijing later this year, after Iran and Saudi Arabia have completed the process of […]
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Mon 13 March 2023: Indians are celebrating a historic night at the Oscars after a breakout hit song from the action movie RRR and a short documentary, The Elephant Whisperers, win at the Oscars. “Naatu Naatu” won the award for the best original song, making history as the first homemade movie from the South Asian country to […]
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Mon 13 March 2023: Former Minister and BJP MLA K.S. Eshwarappa has stirred a fresh controversy in Karnataka by stating that “does Allah listen only if the Azaan prayers are played on loudspeakers”. Speaking at a rally organised as part of the Vijay Sankalp Yatra on Sunday, Eshwarappa said, “Will Allah listen only if the […]
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Mon 13 March 2023: Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to visit Russia as soon as next week, the news agency Reuters reported on Monday (March 13) quoting people familiar with the matter. The development comes as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war continues to escalate over the eastern city of Bakhmut. The visit would be would […]
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Sun 12 March 2023: The editor of the Jammu-based Kashmir Times newspaper accused the Narendra Modi administration of stifling press freedom in Kashmir and the rest of India in an opinion piece that was published in The New York Times, angering the Centre. Anuradha Bhasin, the owner and executive editor of the Kashmir Times, claimed […]
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