Female activists and students take part in a torch procession demanding women s safety and justice for rape victims, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
The January 2021 rape and murder of a high school student in Bangladesh left the nation in shock yet again. However, this is not an isolated occurrence. Countless examples of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Asia from last year raise significant concerns about the so-called “progress” made in improving women’s standing and fighting rape culture in the region. Political discourse in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh is deeply misguided regarding such issues, often leading to systematic victim-blaming which knowingly or unknowingly helps the perpetrators. In this piece, we examine the true depth and commonality of GBV in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan as well as review previous steps taken to address this issue. We th
In its first-ever statement issued on the TRP manipulation issue in the purported WhatsApp chats between Arnab Goswami and Partho Dasgupta, Republic has ducked all the questions. Instead, in its trademark style, the broadcaster has shifted the goalpost by counter-questioning rival channels and issuing threats
Transcript: Mehbooba Mufti on Arnab s Chats, Article 370 and BJP s Sinister Designs for J&K
In an interview to Arfa Khanum Sherwani, the former chief minister says her party and the Gupkar Alliance will continue to fight democratically for the restoration of J&K s special status.
Former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. Photo: Reuters
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Arnab Goswamiâs WhatsApp chats that were annexed by the Mumbai Police in the alleged TRP manipulation scam have shown that the Republic TV founder knew about the Balakot airstrike at least three days before the military conducted them.
The Wire‘s Arfa Khanum Sherwani interviewed former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, who said that the WhatsApp chats “prove” that the airstrikes were done to benefit a particular political party and not done to avenge the death of the CRPF members who were killed in the Pulwama terror attack.
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The government of Pakistan recently threatened two American Muslims with prison sentences of up to ten years if they did not take down a U.S.-based “blasphemous” website a threat one of those targeted told Breitbart News on Tuesday represented “an unprecedented and entirely new frontier of digital policing that Pakistan is trying to impose.”
The website in question TrueIslam.com is the online home of the American Ahmadiyya Muslim community, run by an American group, hosted in the United States, and represented by American citizens. Ahmadi Muslims differ from Sunni and Shia Muslims in believing that the promised Messiah of Islam arrived on earth in the form of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who was born in India in 1835. The Ahmadiyya consider their current leader, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the “Present Khalifa of Islam.” Ahmadi Muslims emphasize in their worship “commitment to peace, their law-abiding nature and determination to create a harmonious society for all
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