Edit inThe Island, Nov 17, 2023Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has eclipsed most other crucial issues, especially relentless attacks on the people’s democratic rights and freedoms. A group of academics has, in a letter published on the opposite page, condemned one such incident. Human rights lawyer, Swasthika Arulingam, was recently turned away from a lecture she was scheduled to deliver at the University of Jaffna because some student groups forced the university authorities not to allow…
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by Waqas Ali in Dawn, August 18th, 2023KARACHI: Members of Minority Rights March and Aurat March, the Archbishop of Karachi and the Bishop of the Holy Trinity Cathedral on Thursday condemned the attacks on churches and residences the Christian community members in Jaranwala by an angry mob, following an alleged incident of blasphemy in this town of Faisalabad district. Members of the Christian community also staged a protest outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC). Addressing…
by Kalbe Ali in Dawn, August 17th, 2023ISLAMABAD: As a mob burnt down churches and houses of the Christian community over an unverified case of blasphemy in Jaranwala on Wednesday, members of the religious minorities cried out for justice and said they were left at the mercy of the angry mob. Church of Pakistan President Bishop Azad Marshall said in a tweet on X (formerly Twitter), “Words fail me as I write this, We, bishops,…