A guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park which has previously been revealed by leaked documents to be a forced indoctrination camp in Artux in western China’s Xinjiang region. (File photo) Leaked data shows the detention of 311 individuals from the Karakax County sent to internment camps for reasons their faith and …

Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India, December 16, 2019. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri Fiction in time of fake news. Below is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. We …

High Asia Herald Report   Islamabad: Civil society and women rights activists have condemned a resolution passed by the lower house of the parliament supporting capital punishment for those involved in sexual abuse. “We at Women Democratic Front condemn National Assembly’s resolution on #HangRapistsPublicly,” the socialist feminist movement said in a statement posted on its official Facebook page. Sexual barbarism is undoubtedly widespread, but …

  RFE/RL   Four Islamic State (IS) extremists that Dushanbe is trying to extradite from Syria include Tajik militants linked to dozens of terrorist attacks and a notorious online propaganda campaign aimed at recruiting fighters to the IS. The Prosecutor-General’s Office in Dushanbe says Tajik authorities “have established” that Parviz Saidrahmonov and Tojiddin Nazarov are currently being held at “prisons …

Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission probing video of a woman being stoned to death Ghor province High Asia Herald Report   An independent rights watchdog in Afghanistan has initiated an investigation of video footage that shows a woman being stoned to death, says a report published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on its website. The two-minute clip shows a group of …

Manzoor Pashteen, nine others were arrested on late Monday evening in Peshawar and sent on 14-day judicial remand   High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a civil rights movement, has called on supporters to protest on January 28  against the arrest of its leader Manzoor Pashteen and nine others. Pashteen was arrested at Tehkaal Bala, Peshawar …

In this last installment of the three-part article based on correspondence between Hassan Mirza and Professor Noam Chomsky, the internationally-acclaimed linguist and social scientist speaks about the British colonial genocidal role in South Asia and Africa, the future of South Asia, religion, the catastrophic impact of climate change, and the US-Europe imperialist-induced migration crisis.   Religion and spirituality Hassan Mirza …

What could have compelled young SSP to take his own life?   By Shafqat Aziz   He was by no mean an ordinary person. For knowing closely for almost 14 years, that’s the one thing I may say with absolute certainty about Abrar Hussain Nekokara, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) who (as circumstances suggest) has committed suicide in his office …

Herald Report   The US invasion of Iraq was aimed at setting up permanent military bases there and to benefit energy corporations and weapons industry, comments Professor Noam Chomsky, an internationally acclaimed American linguist in a conversation with Hassan Mirza, published in The Express Tribune Blogs section. The conversation is based on correspondence between the two over a period of …

Herald Report For the first time since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman Prime Minister of the Muslim world, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders, including party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, are set to honour the memory of their late leader at Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, on Friday (today). “After 12 years, the PPP is holding a public meeting and …