In this open letter to Google’s CEO, over 3,000 employees urged the company not to work on a Pentagon ‘AI surveillance engine’ used for drone warfare
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USA: Our employer shouldn’t be in the business of war - Open letter signed by Google employees
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Rohingyas: Pawns in the geopolitical chessboard
by , 3 April 2018The protracted Rohingya refugee crisis and in particular the latest cycle of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fleeing the massive military crackdown on an un-armed minority community should not be viewed as an isolated event. It should be examined in the context of the rivalry between China and the US, the West and India for control over Myanmar’s economic and mineral resources.
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Pakistan: Malala is the message | Ghazi Salahuddin / Malala-hating and our xenophobia-radicalisation complex | Raza Rumi / Malala Returns To Pakistan an npr report
2 April 2018Commentary on Malala-hating business in Pakistan. It is a sad reflection on the state of our society that a young woman who is Pakistan’s pride and honour in a global context is despised by such a large number of people in her own country.
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Ahmed Rashid speaking at Pakistan-Afghanistan Pukhtun Festival 2018
2 April 2018Intervention by Ahmed Rashid at the Panel on Regional Peace on 1 April 2018 as part of Pakistan-Afghanistan Pukhtun Festival 2018 held in Pakistan
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Pakistan: Revival of the Left
by , 2 April 2018The task of reviving the Left to once again become an effective player in the polity has been exercising minds in the surviving Left parties and groups for long but the achievement of this goal has proved difficult. It is therefore heartening to note the follow-up of the meeting of 10 Left parties and groups in Lahore on December 29, 2017 by the formation of a 17-parties/groups’ platform dubbed Lahore Left Front (LLF)
