Topic: Human Rights

Storm in the Assembly: Kashmir Lawmakers Demand Judicial Probe Into Alleged ‘Fake Encounter’

SRINAGAR: On the final day of the Budget Session in Jammu & Kashmir, the Legislative Assembly in Jammu was rocked by unprecedented scenes of protest...

Mysterious Death of 25-Year-Old Sparks Highway Protest in Rajouri, Family Demands Independent Investigation

Rajouri — The mysterious death of a 25-year-old man in Rajouri district of India-administered Kashmir has sparked protests and calls for an impartial investigation,...

Indian Police Arrest Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba Operative Linked to Poster Campaign as Security Scrutiny Intensifies in India-administered Kashmir

Srinagar — India’s Delhi Police Special Cell has claimed the arrest of an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative from the Ghazipur area, identifying the individual...

UN Experts Call for Urgent Investigation into Deadly Attack on Girls’ School in Iran

A panel of United Nations experts has called for an urgent international investigation into a deadly attack on a girls’ school in southern Iran...

A Daughter of Kashmir Falls: Questions of Justice and Media Recklessness in Fariha Ibrahim Case

Dateline: BAGH / LAHORE – The death of 22-year-old Dr. Fariha Ibrahim, a final-year medical student from the mountainous district of Bagh in Azad...

The Hanged Man’s Shadow: 42 Years of Maqbool Butt and the Silence Across the Line of Control

On February 11, 1984, Muhammad Maqbool Butt was executed in New Delhi's Tihar Jail, becoming the first Kashmiri political prisoner to be hanged in...