Fishermen are treated and exchanged like prisoners of the war by India and Pakistan.
South Asia Citizens Web
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Fishing in Risky Waters of Pakistan and India: The troubled lives of Fishermen
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Bharat Bhushan on Journalism in India
13 July 2013India’s growing global importance and ambitions have had a detrimental impact on free speech, creating a discourse that drowns out diversity in the media. Its “big power discourse” has been shaped primarily by two processes — economic liberalisation, which began in 1991, and the nuclearisation of India, in particular the five nuclear tests India conducted in 1998.
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Bangladesh: Anti Feminist Views of Allama Shafi of Hefazat-e-Islam
12 July 2013A video recording of the totally retrograde speech by the founder of the right wing Hefazat e Islam in Bangladesh
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India: Threat to the life and security of Shamima Kauser and others. Letter to Union Home Secretary
12 July 2013From: Vrinda Grover
Date: 11 July 2013 14:32
Subject: Fwd: THREAT TO LIFE AND NEED FOR PROTECTION AND SECURITY FOR SHAMIMA KAUSER AND OTHERS
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED LETTER SENT TO UNION HOME SECRETARY, MR. ANIL GOSWAMI AND COPIED TO CBI DIRECTOR.
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Ruth Canagarajah on military land grabs in post war Sri Lanka
11 July 2013Since the civil war, the Sri Lankan military has seized land under the pretenses of security and development.
