Fri 07 August 2020: Sri Lanka’s ruling Rajapaksa brothers have secured a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections, giving them powers to change the constitution and unravel democratic safeguards. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) won 145 seats and can also count on the support of at least five allies in the 225-member […]
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Thu 06 August 2020: China said ‘unilateral’ changes made in status of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 were ‘illegal and invalid’ NEW DELHI – India hit out on China on Wednesday for saying that “unilateral” changes made to the status of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 were “illegal and invalid,” saying […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that the mediation efforts that the United States has asked his country to initiate between Saudi Arabia and Iran are making slow progress. “Our mediation between Iran and Saudi Arabia has not stopped and we are making progress, though it is slow,” Khan […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: OIC rights body condemns extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, detentions by Indian forces LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – The human rights body of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday endorsed a call by UN experts for a probe into extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Indian-administered Kashmir. In a statement […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: On Wednesday, the Hindu ultra nationalist Indian leader, Narendra Modi, will attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Ayodhya. The event culminates a decades-long campaign to build a temple on the site of a historic mosque destroyed by mobs in 1992. The temple is being built in place of a Mughal-era mosque, which […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: Strict restrictions prevent movement of people to mark 1st anniversary of revocation of autonomous status of Jammu-Kashmir SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Strict restrictions were imposed in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the day marked the first anniversary of India’s decision of revoking the seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status of the […]
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Tue 04 August 2020: Daughter of former chief minister says decision was to pave way for ‘Hindutva agenda’ to end region’s Muslim identity SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The unilateral and illegal decision to scrap Article 370 by India which scrapped autonomous status of the state, increased isolation and betrayal amongst residents in Jammu […]
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Tue 04 August 2020: Hagia Sophia Mosque and Babri Mosque-turned-Temple essentially different cases from historical and legal perspectives Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul was reverted to its original position as a mosque decreed by the Honorable President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 10, 2020. And the world witnessed its formal […]
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Mon 03 August 2020: Eliot Engel said he is concerned by reports that the Indian government is targeting journalists who criticise its handling of COVID-19. New Delhi: The chairman of the US Congress’s House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel on Friday expressed concern that the Indian government was targeting journalists for critical coverage of the handling […]
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Mon 03 August 2020: Leaked court documents show army personnel concerned about ‘possibly deliberate policy’ of killing civilian Afghans LONDON (AA) – Leaked documents claimed that the UK special forces carried out deliberate killings in Afghanistan, local media reported on Monday. The court documents and internal army e-mails were referring to the killing of 33 civilian […]
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