Gross violation of human rights continues in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

IANS | October 11, 2025 9:11 PM

Islamabad, Oct 11 (IANS) In the wake of recent violent clashes across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JK-JAAC), a coalition of traders, lawyers, and civil society groups, recently unveiled a 38-point charter outlining a wide range of demands, a report cited.

Ignoring Pakistan and Turkey's Islamist agenda could cost US dearly

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury | October 11, 2025 9:07 PM

Dhaka: South Asia is hurtling toward a strategic rupture. While the region faces an expanding web of Islamist influence backed by state and non-state actors, Washington's inattentive posture risks turning local threats into global ones. Instead of confronting the covert advances of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) and Turkey's Islamist networks in Bangladesh, the American focus appears diverted - at a time when decisive leadership is urgently needed. This drift not only undermines the security of India and its neighbours, but also exposes US interests to blowback from proxy-driven militancy that can cross borders and oceans.

Why the world must not stop talking about Uyghurs and their systemic genocide

IANS | October 11, 2025 6:45 PM

Washington: The East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) is set to hold a demonstration outside the US White House to mark 76 years of Chinese Communist Party’s invasion of East Turkistan in 1949. The event, scheduled on Sunday to observe a 'National Day of Mourning for East Turkistan', is to remind the world of the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, referred by Uyghur diaspora as 'East Turkistan' that is believed to be under the occupation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Muttaqi attends Delhi think tank event, enthralls audience with mention of Tagore's Kabuliwala

IANS | October 11, 2025 5:44 PM

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi interacted with Indian analysts and experts, during an event organised by the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in New Delhi. The packed gathering, which also included many noted female scholars, was enthralled as Muttaqi spoke on his country's deep relationship with India.