Criminal silence over genocide of Muslims
Nowadays, on every social media outlet, tales of the ruthless killings of Burmese Muslims at the hands of angry Buddhist mobs and the Burmese Army are visible. Along with these tales, criticism on...
View ArticleIf Burma won’t take them why won’t you, Bangladesh?
The calamitous ordeal of the Rohingya community of Myanmar has received woefully inadequate media coverage over the years despite having been declared one of the most hectored, tyrannized and aggrieved...
View ArticleAsylum seekers: Why should Australia shoulder our burden?
Australia has recently come under fire for its new policy regarding asylum seekers attempting to enter the country without a visa. According to their prime minister, this policy is an attempt to...
View ArticleThe Rohingya of Burma is the Shia of Pakistan
This is possibly one of the least highlighted human rights violations that has and continues to take place in the day and age when communication and cyber systems dominate our lives and nothing seems...
View Article1971 confession: After Bangladesh, is Balochistan’s disintegration next on...
I heard what my ears would never want to hear again – Narendra Modi’s acceptance of India’s lethal plan in the disintegration of East Pakistan in 1971, and its threat to destabilise Pakistan through...
View ArticleWhy should America accept Muslim refugees while Pakistan is sending back its...
Donald Trump declares that it will be harmful for the Christian American majority if large influxes of Muslim minorities from all over the world enter the US. On the other hand, the Capital Development...
View ArticlePrejudice towards languages and ethnicities other than Punjabi has to end
Textbooks play an important role in building the world view of students. In a country like Pakistan where the reading culture is non-existent, these books serve as primary sources of information for a...
View ArticleWhat Donald Trump gets wrong about North Korea
One of Donald Trump’s latest contributions to the 2016 presidential contest is an offer to talk with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator who keeps 25 million people enslaved and commands an arsenal...
View ArticleIndia: The surgical strike has damaged us more than you, Pakistan
We don’t know the truth behind the surgical operation. Pakistan denies any kind of extraordinary military intervention in its territory. On the other hand, India says it conducted an operation beyond...
View ArticleIs the killing of Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’ or Muslim genocide?
A campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslims is being carried out by Burmese authorities in the western state of Arakan. The Burmese troops have slaughtered children, raped women, as...
View ArticleWhy nobody wants to help Myanmar’s unwanted Rohingya
The international community has largely ignored the political situation regarding the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. The Rohingya have been systematically disenfranchised and persecuted in their...
View ArticleSilence of the lambs: Pakistan is doing its fair share for the Rohingya...
One wonders what is more appalling – Myanmar’s systematic genocide of its Muslim minority, or the inexplicable manner in which the world stayed numb while a small country, wielding hardly any...
View ArticleThe Iraq intervention ensued and we said “never again” – yet here we are,...
“The world has abandoned us,” was the message that was sent loud and clear last year to the global community from the victims of Aleppo, Syria. There were clear reports of chemical attacks against...
View ArticleHas the United Nations outlived its utility?
The United Nations (UN) was formed in 1945 in the wake of World War II, and aimed to bring together all nations of the world at a single table to avoid another world war. Though the organisation was a...
View ArticleThe reality check that brought Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping together
India-China relations have continued to be plagued by mistrust, ever since the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. India was caught unaware by the surprise attack, especially when it had espoused the Chinese...
View ArticleThe year the world mourned dead journalists, and with them our freedom of speech
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based organisation defending the freedom of the press, 53 journalists have been killed in 2018. Let that sink in – 53 journalists....
View ArticlePakistan’s melting glaciers: Our climate change crisis will destabilise...
Pakistan is fortunate to be home to three great mountain ranges: the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush. In fact, on the drive up the Karakoram Highway from Islamabad to Gilgit, I often stop...
View ArticleWho exactly will the Islam-centred TV channel be for?
Prime Minister Imran Khan recently announced that the governments of Pakistan, Turkey and Malaysia will collaborate to launch a “BBC type” English television (TV) channel to challenge Islamophobic...
View ArticleWill Myanmar pay for the treatment of Rohingya Muslims?
John Austin felt that international laws lacked a certain legal component with regards to enforceability because there was no empowered body that could implement the law and hand out decrees or...
View ArticleWill the ICJ ruling lead to real change for the Rohingya?
While the horrific treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar has been repeatedly condemned by many quarters and also resulted in various protests across Pakistan, the simple truth of the matter is that such...
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