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Ultimately the roaring voice of the FTII students reached the IFFI (International Film Festival of India) inaugural held at Panaji, Goa.

A meeting was held in Karachi to discuss the issue of detained fishermen on Thursday, and following this, the chairman of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) - Mohammad Ali Shah, the general secretary of Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) - Jatin Desai, as well as Shujauddin Qureshi of Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) and Mustafa Gurgez of PFF released a joint statement

Too many on the left, though, are stuck with equating Europe with colonialism and neo-imperialism, identifying Muslims as victims, and dismissing as Islamophobia any critique of Muslim beliefs and customs. It is a short-sighted and simplistic posture from a group whose core beliefs are close to those represented by the statue in the centre of the Place de la République.

It is important to remember the places that the terrorists attack—outside a book fair, the office of a publisher, a cafe, a soccer stadium, an open space for conversations. For that’s what the terrorists hate—openness. And that’s what we must preserve and governments must protect, so that life can go on. There will be attacks, but we must resist. For silence is no longer an option.

One after another, our citizens are being killed, but we are yet to see a proactive approach from the government.