Mon 22 June 2020: The gradual encroachment on Kashmiri rights and growing prospect of colonisation could set the region on fire. For more than 70 years, Kashmiris have lived with the dread of the Indian government changing the demography and special status of Indian-administered Kashmir, which was till recently Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state. Deemed preposterous and exaggerated […]
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Sat 20 June 2020: UN is still struggling to maintain the status quo and stay in the same structure even after 75 years ISTANBUL (AA) – After the two world wars in the last century, joint institutions were formed to bring the states together to resolve any disputes through peace. Following the First World War, the […]
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Sun 21 June 2020: While a vaccine is being developed, researchers are trialling existing drugs that could help doctors treat coronavirus. With the coronavirus pandemic tightening its grip on the world and economies grinding to a standstill, the race is on to find a vaccine. But while that could take up to 18 months, existing […]
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Fri 19 June 2020: Lawyers and critics now say that in light of coronavirus, legal arguments against the burqa ban are much weaker and that it’s time to put an end to the criminalisation of women who choose to cover their faces in public. For Karima Rahmani and other Muslim women who wear the niqab […]
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Thu 18 June 2020: Indian prime minister’s bellicosity is missing from the scene as the country mourns soldiers killed in hand-to-hand clashes with Chinese troops. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unusually quiet. And people are wondering why. If there’s any time he should be active on Twitter, it is now. After all, 20 Indian […]
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Arab, Muslim politicians remember the legacy of Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president Wed 17 June 2020: This time last year, Egyptians and people worldwide were mourning the death of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president. The country’s post-revolution president passed away in a Cairo courtroom on June 17, 2019, years […]
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Wed 17 June 2020: As COVID-19 brought science and philosophy closer, we have seen a resurrection of interest in Persian polymath Avicenna. Every day at 7pm in New York, we come out to our balconies or front doors to bang on pots and pans and express our gratitude to physicians, nurses, and other public health workers who […]
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Tue 16 June 2020: LONDON (AA) – A councilor in east London who last week spearheaded the removal of a statue of Scottish slave trader Robert Milligan says more needs to be done in this area. Ehtesham Haque, a Bangladeshi-born councilor in the borough of Tower Hamlets, thinks that the name of another slave trader, […]
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Sat 13 June 2020: I have deliberately avoided watching the video of the murder of George Floyd simply because I’ve seen so many similar images before on the streets of Palestine under Israel’s brutal military occupation. The similarities do not end with such brutality. It has often been said that if Palestinians were black, their […]
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Tue 09 June 2020: The pandemic and the George Floyd protests give society a rare window to push for change. These are exceptional times. The world is battling the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, raising fundamental questions about the future of work, welfare, and civil liberties. While these issues are now taking centre stage, the crisis is […]
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