HEALING KASHMIR While doctors, faith healers and all others engaged in healing the ill and pain stricken may not have much in common, they nevertheless agree on one point- that once the cause of the malady is removed, the body is automatically cured. This dictum being a matter of fact statement has universal applicability. However, […]
SAVING NEW DELHI
SAVING NEW DELHI During the first week of December, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) questioned New Delhi’s rationale of continuing with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir. And the Home Minister (who is already facing flak for outrightly abandoning his predecessor P Chidambaram’s support to the proposal for ‘partial’ […]
SAVING NEW DELHI
SAVING NEW DELHI During the first week of December, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) questioned New Delhi’s rationale of continuing with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir. And the Home Minister (who is already facing flak for outrightly abandoning his predecessor P Chidambaram’s support to the proposal for ‘partial’ […]
DEAFENING SILENCE! PAKISTAN BETRAYS KASHMIRIS ONCE AGAIN
DEAFENING SILENCE! “A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself”. –Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17) The place was ideal- UN headquarters at Geneva. The audience was all inclusive– representatives of civilized nations. The occasion was solemn- the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of […]
UN Questions the Appointment of Human Rights Perpetrator as Minister of Nepal
Kathmandu, May 5:The United Nations Human Rights Office in Nepal (UNOHCHR-N) has expressed huge concern over the Political appointment of Agni Sapkota as the Minister for Information and Communication. Sapkota was appointed as the minister on Wednesday during the fourth cabinet expansion as he holds the status of central committee member in United Communist Party […]
Reinstate All illegally Dismissed Justices of Pakistan: ICJ, ALRC and
Mirpur. The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), in its February 2008 statement for the Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan (2nd Session 5-16 May 2008), to be conducted by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has demanded that the new federal coalition government of PPP, PML-N, ANP, MMA, Independent MNAs, FATA MNAs and other democratic […]