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By Thalif Deen The United Nations, which diligently monitors human rights violations worldwide, believes that centuries-old slavery still exists worldwide. The UN mandate on “contemporary forms of slavery” includes, but is not limited to, issues such as: traditional slavery, forced labour, debt bondage, serfdom, children working in slavery or slavery-like conditions, domestic servitude, sexual slavery, […]

By deploying the IAF, Narendra Modi has ensured that Kashmir is conclusively internationalised. NEW DELHI —With his reckless “pre-emptive” airstrike on Balakot in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inadvertently undone what previous Indian governments almost miraculously, succeeded in doing for decades. Since 1947 the Indian Government has bristled at any suggestion that the conflict […]

Greater Kashmir In Kashmir, a56-hour-long gun-battle, the longest in recent years, left three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel including an inspector-rank officer, two policemen, two militants and a civilian dead while at least eight residential houses and three cowsheds suffered damage, CRPF official said. The slain civilian, identified as Waseem Ahmad Mir, 22, of […]

The Indian government and the opposition must state their policy for security and reconciliation in Jammu and Kashmir, writes Radha Kumar LIKE many others, I have watched events following the Pulwama tragedy with mounting stupefaction, not to mention rage and disgust. Rarely have I seen such a disingenuous response, and that is saying a lot […]

As conflict between the two nations dramatically escalates, villages along the Line of Control fear for their lives Rifat Fareed Silikot, Uri, India-administered Kashmir – Silikot is the last village along the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border dividing Kashmir into two parts, each administered by India and Pakistan. […]

TeleSur According to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, the United States fears Venezuelan speech, and “is afraid of the truth of Venezuela.” The Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza spoke to teleSUR, saying, “the United States is afraid of Venezuela’s words, it is afraid of the truth of Venezuela,” as a response to the U.S. Department […]

Scott Patrick Now, in 2019, another U.S.-backed coup is taking place in Latin America, this time against President Nicolas Maduro and the Chavismo movement. We now know from declassified documents that U.S. involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup runs very deep indeed, not just regarding CIA covert operations but instructions from then-President Richard Nixon to […]