Aluthgamage backs Lorgat report

China moves to punish Lawyers hired to help Hong Kong activists

The Chinese legal authorities have threatened to revoke the licenses of two lawyers hired to help a group of Hong Kong protesters who were arrested last year while trying to flee to Taiwan by speedboat. Ten of the activists were convicted last week by a court in the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen of illegal boundary crossing and sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven months to three years. Two other members of the group who were minors at the time of their arrest in August were returne

06 Jan, 2021

Hazara miners? slaughter

Horror has revisited the beleaguered Shia Hazara community once again. Early Sunday morning, 11 coal miners, all residents of Quetta?s Hazara Town, were barbarically slain in Balochistan?s mountainous Bolan district in an attack claimed by the militant Islamic State group. The men were apparently asleep in their mudbrick dwelling close by the mine that they worked when the assailants burst in, held them at gunpoint, and bound and blindfolded them. Then, in an orgy of bestial violence, they slit

06 Jan, 2021

Machh victim?s sister feels Karbala tragedy revisiting them

“All the male members of my family have been killed and there is no male member left to carry my brother?s body to the graveyard, offer prayers and to lower him in the grave,” said a sniffling Masooma in an emotionally-choked voice. Masooma Yaqoob Ali, a Haraza woman of Balochistan, whose brother Muhammad Sadiq was brutally killed by an extremist organisation Dolat-e-Islamia in district Mach of Balochistan on Sunday along with 10 other coal miners, including four other close relatives, said her

06 Jan, 2021