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PM Modi's remarks on Balochistan an aspiration for all: Karzai
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug 21 (ANI): Endorsing Narendra Modi's remarks made by on the human rights violation in Pakistan's Balochistan province, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday said the assertion made by the Indian Prime Minister is an aspiration for all.
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Ex-Afghan President Karzai backs PM Modi's remarks on Balochistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 20 (ANI): The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has endorsed the remarks of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the human rights situation in Balochistan province of Pakistan.
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Karima Baloch urges 'brother' PM Modi to speak against war crime
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 19 (ANI): Karima Baloch, who is the chairperson of Baloch Students Organisation fighting against atrocities in Balochistan, has on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi her brother and urged him to be the voice of Baloch genocide, war crime
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UNHCHR offers to send fact-finding missions to Kashmir
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug.18 (ANI): The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) has offered to send fact-finding missions to both Indian administered Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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NHRC to organise two-day national seminar on 'Good Governance, Develo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug 18 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is organizing a two-day national seminar on "Good Governance, Development and Human Rights" at Auditorium, National Law University, Dwarka, New Delhi on August 19-20.
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UNHRC intervention in Kashmir 'unacceptable': BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai, Aug. 18 (ANI): While appreciating United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) request to visit Kashmir to examine if there was any human rights violation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said Kashmir is India's internal matter and not an area of UNHRC interve
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Congress divided over PM's Balochistan remarks
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 17 (ANI): Even as Congress leader Salman Khurshid attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raking up the issue Balochistan issue in his Independence Day speech, his party colleague and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said his party suppo
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Baloch nationalists being targeted in all operations by Pak: AHRC report
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug. 16 (ANI): Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a Hong Kong based organisation in its reports has highlighted that Balochistan Province continues to suffer the wrath of law enforcement agencies with Baloch nationalists being targeted in all of the operations.
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Pakistan throws iron curtain across Kashmir, Gilgit as protests break outs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London, Aug 16 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA), a UK -based umbrella alliance comprising Kashmiri diaspora and civil organisations, held a protest demonstration outside the Pakistani High Commission in London seeking global pressure on Pakistan for human r
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Asian Human Rights Commission accuses Pakistan of police excesses in Gilgi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug.11 (ANI): The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has accused Pakistan of encouraging police excesses and torture in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and called on the state to immediately ensure accountability and put in place a mechanism of checks and balances to prevent such in
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Irom Sharmila hints at JD (U) support, says Manipuris 'misunderstood
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Imphal, Aug 10 (ANI): Continuing to keep a shroud of mystery on her future political plans, human rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who yesterday ended her 16-year-fast against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), today said that the Janata Dal United (JDU) has offered their compl
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Soldier stripped of rank after Tatmadaw court rules him guilty for death o
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Naypyidaw, Aug. 10 (ANI): The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has said a Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) investigation into the death of a villager in Kachin State has found a soldier guilty, with a military tribunal ruling that he be stripped of his rank and discharged from service
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