South Asia Citizens Web

true peace will come only when the rapists are tried and put behind bars.

Without hesitation, I confess that I cried listening to Malala Yousufzai when she addressed a special session of the United Nations on Friday evening. I could see that many in the audience were also overwhelmed by emotion. This was a moment in history that could not have been imagined. And considering what we have made of Pakistan, do we deserve a Malala?

Fishermen are treated and exchanged like prisoners of the war by India and Pakistan.

India’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.

A video recording of the totally retrograde speech by the founder of the right wing Hefazat e Islam in Bangladesh