South Asia Citizens Web

• Interview with Gita Sahgal: ’we should learn to distinguish between attacks on the people and right to criticise religion’

  17 October

  Gita Sahgal Interviewed by Prabir Purkayastha, 15 Oct 2018
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• India: Tanks on Campuses to Celebrating Surgical Strike Day Growing Signs of Militarization

  17 October

  This has no place in a democracy where it is possible to not be a hypernationalist and yet be a good citizen. Educational institutions in any event are not the grounds for what is obviously a politically motivated drive to inculcate nationalism.

• Women’s Action Forum files legal complaint against Chief Justice of Pakistan

  15 October

  The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) and members of the civil society have filed a reference before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) against Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar for his remarks and actions that are unbecoming of a judge.

• Turbulence in Kashmir and Reconceptualizing a New Regional Order

  by Nyla Ali Khan, 14 October

  The turbulence and turmoil that has haunted Kashmir for the past twenty-three years holds all of us, as a people, accountable for the degeneration of our politics and society. While it is important for us to condemn, question, and seek redress for the human rights violations in Kashmir, it is also important for us to construct a politics that will enable the rebuilding of our pluralistic polity and society.

• India: Punjab Blasphemy Law Violates Constitution and is an Attack on Democratic Rights of Citizens - Statement by PADS

  11 October

  Punjab assembly recently passed a bill for an addition to IPC clause 295 to give life imprisonment for any ‘injury, damage or sacrilege’ of four religious books, (Guru Granth Sahib, Koran, Bible and Geeta) ‘with the intention to hurt the religious feelings of the people’. This is the first time in independent India that a punishment usually given for willfully murdering another human being has been recommended for defilement of religious books. ... The bill shifts the constitutional balance between fundamental rights of freedom of expression and religion on the one side and the powers of the sate machinery and organized social bodies to restrain these rights on the other.

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