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Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders, while backing Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal’s criticism of New Delhi’s policies, has termed Indian crackdown on Kashmiris and Muslims as unacceptable. Senator Sanders was reacting to Indian foreign minister’s cancellation of a...

As Kashmir remains tense four months after India deprived the region of its autonomy, the UN Security Council meets Tuesday to consider the situation in response to China’s request for a meeting. The Council will likely...

A grim specter exists for genocide of Muslims in Kashmir and Assam, Dr. Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch told an audience on the Capitol Hill while finding parallels between the BJP Government in New Deli and Nazis...

Amid widespread protests against exclusion of Muslims from seeking Indian citizenship, the United Nations has called the BJP Government’s Citizenship Amendment Act as “fundamentally discriminatory.” The UN Human Rights Office reacted to the passage of the...

In yet another move fulfilling BJP ruling party’s exclusionary agenda, India’s Parliament on passed a bill that would deny Muslims from other countries a right to seek Indian citizenship. The measure, known as Citizenship Amendment Bill...

Appalled at the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill – which excludes Muslim immigrants from Indian citizenship – in the lower house of the Parliament, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended sanctions against Home...

The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor providing access to Sikhs to visit the revered Sikh Guru’s final resting place is in reality of enormous ramifications, a landmark achievement for Pakistan. Proposed during former Indian Prime Minister...

India’s repression has turned Kashmir into a “volcano waiting to erupt,” and it is time that New Delhi lets the people of Jammu and Kashmir to decide their destiny, a top Pakistani diplomat argued. Writing an...

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations raised this question while voicing deep concern over the 15-member forum’s inability to act against India for its flagrant violations in the disputed Kashmir territory that New Delhi annexed on...

Arundhati Roy speaking to Democracy Now Image Credit: Screenshot In her latest denunciation of India’s crackdown in Kashmir, acclaimed Indian novelist Arundhati Roy has said the level of horror in the region – annexed by New...