Use of pellet guns on Kashmiri protesters is a violation of human rights
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Home ministers of India and Pakistan indulged in a war of words at a recent South Asian regional meeting in Islamabad over the killing of a young Kashmiri militant and the subsequent violence unleashed in the valley.
Without naming the country, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh attacked Pakistan for sponsoring terror and engineering disturbances in Kashmir by making militant Burhan Wani, 22, killed by Indian security forces a martyr.
Pakistan Home Minister Chaudhry shot back accusing India of committing terrorism against the people of Kashmir.
Hong Kong student Joshua Wong avoids jail over pro-democracy protest
Nineteen-year-old is given 80 hours’ community service but has said he will continue to fight for democracy
Joshua Wong, the most public face of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement demonstrations, has avoided a jail term for his role in a protest that helped launch the unprecedented 79-day political convulsion.
Wong, 19, and fellow activist Alex Chow, who is 25, had been convicted last month of unlawfully entering a fenced off area outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters on 26 September 2014.
A third activist, 23-year-old Nathan Law, was convicted of inciting others to take part in the action which happened just before Hong Kong was gripped by almost three months of demonstrations against Beijing’s refusal to grant democratic concessions to the territory.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews launch million-pound fundraising bid to stop children living with 'irreligious parents'
'It's a scare tactic. It says- 'If you leave we have all the money power and resources to fight you and ensure your children stay within the community are alienated from you'
Ultra-Orthodox Jews are raising £1m to prevent “pure and holy” children from leaving the strict faith community and living with “irreligious parents” in an “evil culture”, The Independent has learned.
The fundraising drive has been established to fund the legal fees of divorcing parents involved in child custody battles with ex-partners who want to join mainstream society.
The Independent has seen flyers for a fundraising event in the Stamford Hill area of London that call for the community to back the bid, saying: “Rescue The Children Convention: We now need one million pounds and therefore the community is requested to join in with a minimum sum of £500.”
Solidarity campaign goes viral in wake of Muslim cleric's killing in New York
Chris Prentice and Laila Kearney
In an echo of an Australian campaign that followed the Lindt cafe siege, Americans are taking to social media to offer their support for Muslims after a double murder outside a New York mosque.
Using the hashtag #illwalkwithyou thousands have come out in support of beleaguered Muslim Americans.
In the aftermath of the Martin Place siege in December 2014,the #illridewithyou campaign saw Twitter users promise to keep an eye on their fellow commuters after a spike in public insults against Muslims.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the acting director of army public relations, said in a press statement issued on Sunday: "There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram terrorists and have contacts with them.
Why IS is happy that most of its recruits know nothing about Islam
- Aya Batrawy, Paisley Dodd, Lori Hinnant, AP, Paris |
- Updated: Aug 15, 2016 14:05 IST
The jihadi employment form asked the new recruits to rate their knowledge of Islam on a scale of one to three. And the Islamic State group applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly deemed ignorant. The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better.
At the height of the Islamic State group’s drive for foot soldiers in 2013 and 2014, typical followers included the group of Frenchmen who went bar-hopping with their recruiter back home, the recent European convert who now hesitantly describes himself as gay, and two Britons who ordered “The Koran for Dummies” from Amazon to prepare for jihad in Syria. They were grouped in safe houses as a stream of Islamic State group imams filled in the gaps, according to court testimony and interviews by The Associated Press.
“I realized that I was in the wrong place when they began to ask me questions on these forms like ‘when you die, who should we call?’“ said the 32-year-old European convert, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Nigerian journalist wanted over Boko Haram video
Army wants to question journalist and two others after release of video purporting to show kidnapped Chibok girls.
The Nigerian army has said that a journalist and two others are wanted for questioning after the armed group Boko Haram released a new video purporting to show the schoolgirls it kidnapped more than two years ago.
The army says it said it wanted to question Ahmed Salkida and two other persons, Ahmed U Bolori and Aisha Wakil, because of their alleged link with Boko Haram.
Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the acting director of army public relations, said in a press statement issued on Sunday: "There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram terrorists and have contacts with them.
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