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Afghan woman activist Freshta Kohistani gunned down in Kapisa province
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 25 (ANI): Afghanistan rights activist Freshta Kohistani has been gunned down in Afghanistan's northeastern Kapisa province, confirmed the country's interior ministry.
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Karima Baloch's mysterious death is not suicide or accident: Hakeem Baloch
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], December 23 (ANI): A Baloch leader has demanded a thorough investigation into the mysterious death of Banuk Karima Baloch, a political and human rights activist in Canada as she was receiving life threats and abusive messages on her social media accounts.
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Killing of Karima Baloch is part of brutal acts to crush Baloch Freedom st
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], December 22 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned the unscrupulous killing of Karima Mehrab Baloch, former chairperson of Baloch Students Organization, leader of Baloch National Movement (BNM) and Baloch rights activist in Toronto, Can
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Baloch rights activist cry foul behind mysterious death of Karima Baloch i
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], December 22 (ANI): A prominent Baloch political activist has alleged foul play behind the mysterious death of Karima Baloch, a young Baloch activist in Canada, saying the Baloch leaders and activists need protection as they are on the target of Pakistan's secret agencies.
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Kylie Jenner confronted by anti-fur activists
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington (US), December 21 (ANI): American media personality and reality TV star Kylie Jenner was confronted by animal rights activists as she was leaving a luxury store on Beverly Hills's Rodeo Drive.
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Pak activists, experts term Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as 'eyewash'
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 16 (ANI): Rights activists and constitutional experts in Pakistan termed the approved Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as useless and eyewash and ruled out the possibility of countering the menace through it.
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Pakistan wants to convert Gilgit Baltistan into military cantonment: Right
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], December 13 (ANI): Pakistan government wants to convert Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan region into a military cantonment, human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza said on Saturday, adding that 60 Frontier Corps (FV) soldiers have been sent to the occupied region recentl
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Shirdi dress code appeal: Infringement of right to freedom of expression,
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Shirdi (Maharashtra) [India], December 4 (ANI): After Shri Saibaba Sansthan Temple Trust in Shirdi put up a notice appealing to devotees to dress in "civilized clothes" as per "Indian culture", women rights activist Trupti Desai on Friday called it an infringement of the constitutional right
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Pakistan activists slam illegal detention of Pashtun leader
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Chaman [Pakistan], December 3 (ANI): Days after the unlawful arrest of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader and human rights activist Owais Abdal, fellow activists have called the Pakistan government for his release. Abdal was arrested from Chaman last month and is currently being kept in a
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Stan Swamy's claims of seizure of his straw, sipper false: NIA
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 29 (ANI): Claims made by jailed rights activist Stan Swamy, accused in Bhima Koregaon violence case, regarding the seizure of straw and sipper by National Investigation Agency (NIA) are "false and mischievous", said the central probe agency in a public
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Freed PoK activist Baba Jan thanks Gilgit Baltistan people for 'fighting'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], November 28 (ANI): Political activist Baba Jan, who was released on Friday after a decade of unlawful imprisonment by Pakistani authorities, thanked people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and rights activists for holding protests for his release and said he would have
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Arrest of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed is nothing but an eyewash:
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Glasglow [Scotland], November 20 (ANI): Asserting that the arrest of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed is nothing but "eyewash", human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has said that if Pakistan is "sincere in getting rid of its terrorists then it should hand them over to India".
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