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Agencies Told to Produce Balochistan`s `Missing` in Next Hearing

The SC also ordered a policy for compensating families of the victims of enforced disappearances and human rights violations in Balochistan.

(ISLAMABAD DawnNews) - Pakistan’s top judges have declared that law enforcement authorities were involved in enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

They are ordering agencies to produce the remaining ‘missing persons’ in the next hearing, DawnNews reported.

Sindhi Nationalist Missing Person Sanauallah Bhati

Pakistan's civilian government has stated that it has little to no control over agencies like ISI, notorious for torture.

(SINDH, Pakistan) - Political Activist Tando Mohd Khan, President of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) has been abducted a second time by the Notorious Pakistani Agency ISI.

He has remained in their custody since 2 July 2011, still under detention of ISI Torture Cell.

Minister`s Threat to Tamils of `100 More Massacres`

The minister was responding to TNA leader Sampanthan’s speech at the ITAK convention in Batticaola last month.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka ) - Sri Lankan cabinet minister Champika Ranawaka has warned of “100 more massacres” if the Tamil people of the island were to follow the Tamil National Alliance, who he accused of calling the “nation” out to fight.

Addressing reporters, Power and Energy minister Champika Ranawaka from the JHU, a constituent party of the ruling coalition stated, "Does Sampanthan want to create 100 more Mullivaikkals?

The Diaspora Factor

War on terror revisited: a battle abroad.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - ‘President Rajapaksa is in a hell of a predicament also because as the Commander in Chief of the Military, he is alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

With mounting evidence, he is trying to negotiate, perhaps barter justice with a political solution as he knows that the day he relinquishes his position as head of state, he is likely to be arrested...

`Work is Worship`: The Work Ethic Success of the Sri Lankan Tamils

Today, the only way to curb the Tamil aspiration for a separate state is to remove from them the many fears they would entertain in coming to Sri Lanka.

(COLOMBO, The Island) - I have often wondered why we, as a nation, cannot progress as rapidly as our neighbour – India.

Any political analyst would of course heap the blame on the politicians and the political authority. I have pondered whether in fact this was true.

The Sun of Dharma Will Rise (Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya)

The life-enhancing teachings of Sanatana Dharma are God's free and precious gift for all sentient beings in existence, regardless of their nationality, gender, or parentage.

(CHENNAI, India) - A new Vedic movement is being born today that is unlike any movement ever seen before in world history. This Sanatana Dharma movement is empowered by God Himself.

It is a movement that is destined to thoroughly change the face of the entire Earth as it is presently constituted.

Sri Lanka Accused Of Discriminating Against Women

These incidents are linked to the Prevention of TerrorismAct (PTA), which, the statement said, “makes it easier for police and military members to carry out body inspections and ‘searches’ without having to justify doing so.

(COLOMBO Sunday Leader) - A European human rights watchdog has accused Sri Lanka of violating a United Nations (UN) convention on discrimination against women.

The European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in a recent media statement said that women and girls in the North and East are subject to harassment by police and military personnel.

Eezham Tamils: Declare for Referendum in any Unity Meeting

Only the Tamil militancy was able to arrest the process for three decades, but genocidal Colombo is now given with a free licence to carry out colonisation in full swing.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - All groups of Eezham Tamils in the island and in the diaspora, seeking various shades of political solution beyond the present constitution of Sri Lanka, should meet together to present a joint stand of them.

It is an opinion currently pressurising all of them, mainly the TNA, both the factions of the TGTE, GTF and the Country Councils in various Western countries.

Enforced Disappearance: JSMM`s Muzaffar Bhutto Was Found Dead After More than a Year

He was neither a terrorist nor a criminal, he was a qualified engineer and a political activist working for the rights of people living in Sindh.

(KARACHI) - Muzaffar Bhutto, who went missing on February 24, 2011, was found dead near Hyderabad on Tuesday 22 May 2012.

The 42-year-old’s bullet-riddled body, also bearing torture marks, was found at the roadside near Hatri and was taken to Civil Hospital, Hyderabad.

The Plight of Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka

Statistics reveal a more than 50 per cent fall in the Indian Tamil population between 1971 and 1981.

(CHENNAI, India) - The Tamils in Sri Lanka can be classified into two groups.