On 9 July 2026, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Pakistan to establish a national mechanism to receive and investigate complaints from families of girls from religious minority communities who have been abducted or forcibly converted to Islam. The resolution highlighted the case of a 13-year-old Christian girl Maria Shahbaz and urged the […]
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena’s yesterday dissolved the parliament with effect from midnight Friday i.e. 9 November 2018 and called for general elections on 5th January 2019, two years ahead of the schedule. “This is nothing but the murder of democracy after failing to secure majority for the illegally-appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in the […]
THE WEEK 05 September 2019 New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Centre to enact a suitable stand alone comprehensive legislation based on UN Convention on custodial torture, observing that it is under the government’s “active consideration”. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi rejected […]
