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Pashtun activist at UN exposes Pakistan's ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In his intervention Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi said, "We would like to turn the council's attention towards a deteriorating security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pakistan having grave implications for the basic fundamental rights and lives of Pashtun ethnic minority."
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Canada's decision to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs may irk China
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Since 2017, Beijing has carried out a sweeping crackdown in the north-western Xinjiang region under the banner of counterterrorism, undertaking campaigns to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim ethnic minority group. Experts estimate that Chinese authorities have detained more than 1 millio
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Ali Wazir: Face of Pakistan's non-violent movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Wazir has been consistently targeted for his unequivocal criticism of the Pakistani Army and the human rights abuses that the Pashtun ethnic minority face in Waziristan and neighbouring border areas in the former Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), now a part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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New tactic by China to hide Xinjiang atrocities
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 21 (ANI): As part of China's efforts to counter criticisms of its human rights abuses, female China-based ethnic-minority influencers from troubled frontier regions of Xinjiang use sophisticated content with a more authentic feel to convey a false sense of legitimacy
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Myanmar: 5 years since Rohingya mass exodus, UNHCR urges solutions
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 25 (ANI): This week marks five years since more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya fled military persecution from Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said.
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Falun Gong faces continued persecution in China: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 20 (ANI): Falun Gong, the lesser know discipline in China, is being persecuted for 23 years in the country as the Chinese Communist Party considered the practice a "posing serious threat" to the rule of Xi Jinping, a media report stated.
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China, EU to hold trade talks amid tensions over Ukraine war
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 19 (ANI): China and the European Union are set to hold high-level talks on the economy and trade amid tensions over human rights issues in Xinjiang and the war in Ukraine.
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Strange coincidence: Uyghur data leaks on eve of UN Rights Chief visit to
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 26 (ANI): In a strange coincidence to UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet's long-delayed visit to Xinjiang, a new leak of Chinese government records provides confidential documents, including speeches by high-ranking Chinese officials outlining their plans to repress, "edu
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Uyghur dies days after release from China detention camp, son collapses de
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): A shocking incident has came to light from China's Xinjiang, as a goldsmith from the region's ethnic minority population died 20 days after being released from President Xi Jining's detention camp, followed by the death of his 20-year-old son the next day at hi
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Pakistani forces compel Baloch drivers to march through desert: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Pakistani forces allegedly forced several drivers from the ethnic minority areas of Balochistan to abandon their vehicles and march through the desert to their homes in the Chagai district near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
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Cases of enforced disappearances continue unabated in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): Cases of disappearances, especially from ethnic minority areas continue unabated in Pakistan with a commission recording a total of 158 missing persons for the year 2022.
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Uyghur woman in Xinjiang sentenced to 20-yr imprisonment for speaking to T
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 23 (ANI): A Uyghur woman has been sentenced to 20-year imprisonment for speaking to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to China's Xinjiang region in 2012, said a media report citing the woman's husband.
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