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Tajik authorities intensify crackdown on Pamiris

By thehighasia
September 10, 2022
in :  Central Asia, Conflict, Democracy, extremism, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Latest, Pamir Ranges, Politics, Resistance, Tajikistan
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Clampdown on Pamiris

Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili ethnic group. About 100 detainees, including seven journalists, are awaiting trial. Authorities in Tajikistan have forced the closure of two religious bodies in the capital Dushanbe within a succession of a week, according to media reports. The institutions are the …

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Undermining the people’s will

By thehighasia
May 8, 2022
in :  Democracy, Governance, History, Literature, Pakistan, Politics, Resistance
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The book covers one manifestation of authoritarianism as defined by the author and follows a set structure. There is a historical overview — in some instances beginning from the colonial era — consisting of key events which illustrate the issue.

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Progressive forces urged to unite for genuine alternative

By thehighasia
April 17, 2022
in :  Politics, Resistance
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The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has called for all progressive political and social forces to unite around a genuinely transformative political-economic programme based on redistribution of wealth, reduction of defence and other non-productive expenditures, defence of the livelihoods and liberties of the working masses, an end to the pillage of natural resources in ethnic peripheries, and the elimination of all …

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Monika Ertl: The avenger of Che Guevara

By thehighasia
April 6, 2022
in :  Resistance, Socialism
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On April 1st, 1971, Bolivian army officer Colonel Roberto Quintanilla Pereira ordered the execution of Che Guevara and allegedly cut off his hands. The American CIA stooge was killed by German socialist and guerrilla fighter Monika Ertl, dubbed “the avenger of Che Guevara.” Monika was the daughter of a Nazi propagandist who fled to Bolivia. The family’s close friends were …

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The rot at core

By thehighasia
April 3, 2022
in :  Marxism, Politics, Resistance
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By Asim Sajjad Akhtar Imran Khan believed himself to be a virtual messiah who would cleanse Pakistan of ‘corruption’ and fight crusades against the corroding influences of western culture. His cult-like supporters still hold on to this myth but his dissolution of the National Assembly rather than face a no-confidence vote makes clear that he will do anything he can …

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Justice Agha Haider: Courtroom comrade of Bhagat Singh

By thehighasia
March 25, 2022
in :  History, Resistance, Revolution
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By Saquib Salim “I was not a party to the order of the removal of the accused (Bhagat Singh & his associates) from the court to the jail and I was not responsible for it anyway. I disassociate myself from all that took place today in consequence of that order.” Justice Sayyad Agha Haider, May, 12th,1930. The above order passed …

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The unsung heros

By thehighasia
March 24, 2022
in :  History, Resistance, Revolution
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By Waseem Altaf March 23 marks the 91st death anniversary of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev, who were executed in Lahore Central Jail on this day in 1931. Looking at our history books, we find numerous characters, glorified as national heroes, however, when closely examined we discover that they were nothing but opportunists and collaborators. We also find that since …

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Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist philosopher passes away

By thehighasia
March 10, 2022
in :  Archives, Arts & Culture, Education, Literature, Marxism, Obituary, People, Resistance
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Obituary

News Desk Aijaz Ahmad, a world-renowned Marxist philosopher and political commentator, passed away at his California residence on Tuesday (March 9). He was hospitalised for age-related ailments and had returned home only a few days ago.  Aijaz Ahmad was a literary theorist and in 2017 joined Irvine School of Humanities at California University where he served as a Professor in the Department …

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Aurat March: LHC moved to uphold right to assembly

By thehighasia
March 7, 2022
in :  Feminism, Legal, New, Resistance
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News Desk Lahore: Aurat March Lahore organizers have filed a writ petition before the Lahore High Court (LHC), calling for women’s right to march on International Women’s Day (08 March) to be protected. For its part, the city administration did not reply to the Aurat March organizers’ intimation of the upcoming event. In fact, the Additional Deputy Commissioner for Lahore …

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GB lawmakers, BAP at loggerheads over bill

By Inayat Abdali
March 2, 2022
in :  Development, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, Pakistan, Resistance, Slider
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While it remains to be known as to what exactly the proposed amendment may entail, intellectuals, academicians, and youth activists are voicing concerns over declaring GB a provisional province of Pakistan.

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‘We need public pressure, not just summits’

By thehighasia
October 23, 2021
in :  Climate Change, Environment, Human Rights, People, Resistance, UN, World
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climate-change

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has told the BBC that summits will not lead to action on climate goals unless the public demand changes too. In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the COP26 climate summit, she said the public needed to “uproot the system”. “The change is going to come when people are demanding change. So we can’t expect everything to …

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Rights defenders reject ‘negotiations’ with TTP

By thehighasia
October 13, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, extremism, Human Rights, Politics, Resistance, Slider, Socialism, Terrorism, Women, World
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Afghan pilots

Prime Minister Imran Khan in interviews to TRT, a Turkish channel, and ‘Middle East Eye’ said that his government was in talks with TTP.

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Afghan pilots tell of daring escape from Taliban, and of life in limbo in Tajikistan

By thehighasia
October 8, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Conflict, High Asia Region, Latest, Resistance, Slider, Tajikistan
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The group, which includes two female military pilots, said they do not want to remain in Tajikistan and hope to resettle in the United States

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Land struggles

By thehighasia
July 2, 2021
in :  Conflict, Development, Human Rights, Opinion, Pakistan, Resistance, Slider
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land grabbing

Pakistan, where land developers of all stripes are facilitated by all mainstream political parties and the judiciary. Where sitting provincial and federal governments go to great lengths to point out how this rampant conversion of people’s livelihoods and shelter for profits of the few is a central plank of their development strategy. Where the laundered proceeds of real estate development are given safe passage and an ‘agreeable adjustment’, and where those resisting this injustice like activists of the Awami Workers Party, the Sindhi rights movements, and the farmers’ movements in Lahore and Sheikhupura, are subjected to repression, imprisonment, and coercion.

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Speakers vow to resist attacks on media, judiciary

By thehighasia
June 18, 2021
in :  Democracy, Human Rights, Judiciary, Media, Pakistan, Politics, Resistance
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Lawyers' moot

Leaders of lawyers' and media bodies, human rights defenders, and parliamentarians Thursday vowed to resist increasing assault on judiciary and media.

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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