India-Pakistan

India-Pakistan Peace Breakthrough 2025: Inside the US-Brokered Ceasefire and Trump’s Powerful Impact

Announcing a full and immediate truce between India-Pakistan, effective from 4:30 pm Pakistan time, a tweet by US President Donald Trump has unexpectedly helped nearly 1500 million people all throughout the Indian subcontinent to celebrate peace. Following protracted nighttime negotiations facilitated by the United States involving high-level officials from both countries, including Prime Ministers Narendra […]

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India-Pakistan Tension

India-Pakistan Tension Intensifies: Recalling Peace Activist Karamat Ali

India-Pakistan tension escalates. Many of the subcontinent’s residents are left wondering what seasoned peace activist Karamat Ali would have done in reaction to the current crisis in view of growing military tensions between Pakistan and India. Military Tensions Approach Sensational Levels Dawn broke today with disturbing reports of Indian airstrikes targeting both Azad Kashmir and

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CCI Halts 6 Canals Plan on Indus

10-Day Protest Ends in Historic Victory: CCI Halts 6 Canals Plan on Indus After Wide Backlash

It was a good news that CCI Halts 6 canals plan on Indus. Following 10 fierce days of marches, rallies, and mobilisation by the lawyers and civil society organisations of Sindh called off their protest against the dubious building of six new canals on the Indus River system by the Punjab government with the federal

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Indus Basin Treaty

India’s Ruthless Move: Insights on 1960 Indus Waters Treaty Suspension—Who Gains, Who Loses?

How much the Indus Waters Treaty is important for the people of India and Pakistan. 2010, New Delhi. At the People’s SAARC conference, a gathering of civil society members from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Pakistan’s delegation was quite strong. People’s SAARC usually took place on the same days as or close

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Osho Tapoban

Captivating Osho Tapoban: 100s of Maroon Ropes All Around

It wasn’t my first trip to Osho Tapoban, a meditation retreat tucked away in the Himalayan Nagarjuna Hills near Kathmandu, Nepal. The venue brazenly declares itself as “a space to provoke the god inside you.” Though I had visited briefly before, this trip seemed quite different. After concluding a three-day meeting in a hotel in

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New 6 Canals – Sindh Assembly passes resolution expressing Sindhi people’s apprehensions regarding construction in Punjab

Finally, on Thursday, the Sindh Assembly approved a motion vehemently denouncing the building of new 6 canals, including the Cholistan Canal and Greater Thul Canal, on the Indus River system. Supported by all members, the Sindh Chief Minister and Leader of the House, Syed Murad Ali Shah, offered a resolution calling for an immediate stop

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2025 Fact-Finding Hindu Girls: Alarming Network Involved in Conversion Exposed

Fact-Finding Hindu Girls of Mithi: Two Hindu girls, Rumela and Kajul, from Mithi, Tharparkar, claimed forced conversion; a fact-finding expedition by the Sindh Human Rights Defenders Network (SHRDN) has illuminated a more complex scenario than first reported. Although the SHRDN came to the conclusion that the girls’ Islamic conversions were not coerced, their research pointed

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fatima phuriro case

Fatima Phuriro Case 2023: A Shocking Reminder of Power, Privilege, and Justice in Sindh

The Fatima Phuriro case has once again come into the limelight in the national media, as it has taken a significant turn with Ms. Shabnam, the mother of the deceased girl, requesting the dismissal of charges against Pir Asad Shah Jeelani, the main accused, following a reported settlement between them. In her written statement, Shabnam

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Priya Kumari

Missing Hindu Girl Priya Kumari: Alarming 3 Years of Failed Sindh Police Investigations

“Priya Kumari is alive, and we have evidence.” These words were quoted to Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar on July 20, 2024, during a meeting with parents and civil society representatives at CM House in Karachi. The meeting was held after the civil society’s protest in Karachi, and the government was forced to give assurance

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SANA Water Conference 2025 Rejects New Canals Scheme on the Indus River

Sindhi people reject the canals scheme in Punjab, which will ruin Sindh as the province depends on the water of the River Indus, and these canals will drastically reduce water in the river. “We believe that the Punjab and federal governments are working against Sindh’s interests under the same agenda, depriving Sindh of its rightful

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