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Kacha Chittha - 3 a story of illegal sale of land to the the Adani business group in Gujarat in an ecologically sensitive and high security zone on India’s border with Pakistan.

year long global relay solidarity fast to amplify the voices of survivors of the Bhopal Gas Disaster.

Secular neutrality is a pillar of higher education. We can’t cave in to faith groups in our institutions – even if it causes offence

We live in a deeply segregated society. Segregation by gender may be one aspect of this, but segregation by class or by social standing may have a still more detrimental effect on how we function and think. While better access to education, and greater parental endeavours to get their children the best they can should have created the flows of mobility in a social structure that has been static for generations, it remains blocked in many different ways.

Quite often, Pakistan has wanted the United States to give it more aid than the latter had promised and has been told to exert more for the realisation of agreed objectives by improving its economy, governance and capacity to benefit from external aid. There have also been occasions when Pakistan has urged the US to not forget its responsibility to reciprocate Pakistan’s performance in securing the goal of friendship. The reason, on most occasions, has been a difference in the partners’ perceptions of their obligations under mutual assistance agreements and the substance of partnership deeds. The seeds of this divergence were sown quite early in Pakistan’s history.