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KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court on Thursday declared a colonial-era sedition law unconstitutional, calling it “inconsistent” with the country’s constitution, a lawyer and local media said. A single-judge bench of the Lahore High Court invalidated the controversial law – Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code – wh...
LONDON (AA) – The British monarchy should apologize for its connections to the transatlantic slave trade if it “truly cared about beginning to rectify its role,” says an anti-monarchy campaigning organization. The transatlantic slave trade, which is viewed as one of the darkest chapters in history, lasted for more than 400 ye...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has rejected a US report on the country’s human rights issues, extrajudicial killings, and democracy, calling it one-sided and questioning American police’s excessive use of force and killings of ordinary citizens. Talking to reporters in Dhaka on Wednesday, Bangladesh Information and Broadcastin...
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir (AA) – A freelance journalist, Irfan Mehraj, in Indian-occupied Kashmir has been arrested by the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with an ongoing probe into alleged “NGO terror funding case,” said an official statement released on Tuesday. “Following comprehensive investig...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): The motorcycles that buzz along the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, have a story to tell. Once the preserve of men and a sign of male status in this West African country, today they are used ubiquitously by women — and are a prized tool of emancipation. When […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva said Wednesday that under the Taliban, Afghanistan “remains the most repressive country in the world” when it comes to women’s rights. “The bans against women working, studying, traveling without a male companion, and even going to parks or bath...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Russian President Vladimir Putin, who frequently decries Western libertarian and permissive values relating to gender fluidity and sexual liberty, has remarked that paedophilia has become the norm in the West. “Look at what they do to their own people: the destruction of families, of cultural and national identities...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Campaigners and foreign governments including the United States have long expressed worries about efforts by Prime Ministe...
New Delhi, India — AFP Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002. Police sealed off the New Delhi office, which occupies two floors, and half a dozen officers w...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s telecommunications regulatory authority has blocked Wikipedia, an online international encyclopaedia service, for publishing and failing to remove blasphemous content, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia after it failed to meet a 48-hour deadline s...
