For long the world community, Islamic organizations and human rights bodies have been watching the worst example of state terrorism unleashed against the innocent Rohingyan Muslims. Not one step has been taken to stop the ruthless killing of hundreds of Muslims and burning of their mosques, houses ...

BANGKOK   Myanmar has waged ‘a campaign of ethnic cleansing’ against Rohingya Muslims, a top rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement affecting tens of thousands. The Rohingya, who are denied citizenship by the country also known as Burma, ...

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Weekend attacks on three communities in volatile and ethnically divided central Nigeria have left 19 people dead and displaced some 4,500 others, a local official said on Tuesday.The attacks were believed to be reprisals in a dispute involving mainly Muslim Fulanis and the ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Mian Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that his party would not accept the creation of new provinces in Punjab on the basis of ethnicity or hatred.Speaking at party’s consultative meeting here in Lahore, Nawaz Sharif backed the creation of new ...

TIM HEINEMANN After dubious performances in post-war Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has the opportunity to demonstrate in Myanmar what has been learned at a great price in both these countries. All three countries share one distinct feature: they are highly diverse ethnic societies ...

After suicide bombings and target killings, now, Pakistan is experiencing another type of killing, the pick and choose killing. As at Babusar, few months ago, passengers belonging to a particular sect were identified though their identification cards and were taken off the buses and brutally ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The role of regional political parties is extremely important to avert the possibility of ethnic or linguistic colouring in the drive for a new province in South Punjab. They should focus the masses to campaign for a new province solely on administrative grounds, advises ...

NEW YORK An official of a Pakistani civic organization fears Bosnia-like ethnic cleansing could take place Karachi, where over a thousand people have been killed in targeted political killings so far this year, according to a dispatch in The New York Times on Thursday. Amber Alibhai, the ...

KARACHI The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Friday accused ANP Sindh Chief Shahi Syed of patronised drug and land mafias in the metropolis and charged him with hatching conspiracies to spark ethnic strife between Pakhtun and Mohajir communities for his vested interest. Addressing a press ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said "ethnic cleansing" had been reported in villages in South Ossetia, as he pointed an accusing finger at the West for extending military aid to Georgia. "We have heard about ethnic cleansing in villages in South Ossetia," Lavrov ...