PoJK activist Amjad Ayub Mirza slams Section 144 imposition in Balochistan, calls it a sign of state failureAmjad Ayub Mirza, a PoJK activist, has denounced the imposition of Section 144 in Balochistan, calling it a violation of civil liberties an...
06 Aug, 2025, 01.04 PM IST
Who is Imaan Mazari-Hazir? The lawyer who had called Pakistan army 'terrorists' arrested againImaan Mazari-Hazir has been arrested again by Islamabad police on multiple charges. The daughter of former human rights minister Shireen Ma...
28 Oct, 2024, 04.09 PM IST
Prophet remark row: Religious, political freedom in Muslim nationsAccording to the Freedom House 2022 report, India (66) scores better on political and civil liberties than all these 15 countries. Accordin...
08 Jun, 2022, 12.21 PM IST
View: Indian freedom declines from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’. But it remains resilientBJP clams it will improve the lot of Kashmiris through closer integration with India. But its credibility in the Valley is negligible. Free...
23 Mar, 2021, 11.21 PM IST
India falls to 53rd rank in EIU's Democracy Index, dubbed as flawed democracyOut of 167 countries, the Democracy Index classifies 23 countries as full democracies, 52 as flawed democracies, 35 as hybrid regimes and 5...
04 Feb, 2021, 01.14 PM IST
South Asian human rights body slams Pakistan over forced conversion of Hindu girlsSouth Asia Collective's (SAC) "South Asia State of Minorities Report, 2020: Minorities and Shrinking Civic Space" released recently, has de...
24 Dec, 2020, 12.37 PM IST
India falls to 51st position in EIU's Democracy IndexIndia's overall score fell from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 on the Index that provides a snapshot of the current state of democracy worldwide for ...
23 Jan, 2020, 10.34 AM IST
Pakistan has dubious distinction of recruiting children in terrorist groups: IndiaFirst Secretary Paulomi Tripathi said while there has been change in attitude towards children's rights, they remain the most vulnerable in...
11 Oct, 2019, 10.28 AM IST
India in constant touch with US authorities over anti-PM protests in HoustonIndian authorities including Indian Embassy and local consulate are in constant touch with the State Dept to prevent any security breach du...
21 Sep, 2019, 01.21 PM IST
Global community largely silent on India’s J&K moveThe international community is conspicuously not challenging or objecting to India’s legislative and constitutional moves regarding the sta...
09 Aug, 2019, 11.28 AM IST
Sedition tag for Pulwama comments worries activistsGovernments have used sedition as a tool to crush dissent more than anything else, says an advocate.
28 Feb, 2019, 11.30 AM IST
Jammu & Kashmir has more freedom than Pakistan, says US reportThe report also labelled PoK as “not free” in terms of freedom and the functioning of local institutes.
08 Feb, 2019, 09.50 AM IST
Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar no moreNayyar died at around 12.30 AM at a private hospital, his elder son Sudhir Nayyar said. He was suffering from pneumonia and was admitted to...
23 Aug, 2018, 11.04 AM IST
Congress tries to avoid 'anti-national' tag, does balancing actThe Congress is portraying the issue as one of civil liberty to embarrass the government over its "heavy handed" approach to the controvers...
16 Feb, 2016, 12.31 PM IST
NSA-level talks off: BJP ally Mufti Mohammad Sayeed upset, rival Farooq Abdullah backs governmentThe main opposition, National Conference's patron Farooq Abdullah, has welcomed the Centre's tough stand of not giving in to Pakistan's bla...
24 Aug, 2015, 11.46 AM IST
- PM's daughter blows whistle on 54 nations that helped US detention program
Singh has also named 136 people who were detained and transferred by the CIA and its allied or cooperating intelligence outfits.
06 Feb, 2013, 05.29 AM IST
- Forced conversion of Hindus in Pakistan jolts US out of slumber
Pakistan's state-endorsed discrimination, and in some cases extermination, of its minorities has finally caught the eye of Washington lawma...
14 Mar, 2012, 09.53 AM IST