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Plight of Rohingya Muslims amid UN silence

Monday, 04 September 2017 7:03 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:15 AM ]

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Plight of Myanmar Muslims and UN's silence

The tragic condition of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority is yet another reminder of the international double standards toward the issue of human rights. The UN Security Council regularly convenes to discuss various global issues many of them involving rights violations in different parts of the world. But the world body has been almost indifferent to the plight of the Rohingya. Apart from the UN silence, the hypocrisy of some defenders of human rights has been exposed by the situation in the south East Asian country. Many believe that Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi has emerged as a hypocrite and a fraud as she has remained silent on the deadly repression of Myanmar’s Muslim minority.

Dynamics of regional diplomacy changing over US-Pakistan rifts

Tensions are on the rise between Islamabad and Washington: President Donald Trump's new strategy on Afghanistan has put the two countries on a collision course. Trump has threatened to punish Pakistan for sheltering insurgents there. The United States is also asking India, Pakistan's longtime rival, to get more involved in Afghanistan. And that has angered many people in Pakistan. Different Pakistani cities have witnessed a wave of angry anti-Washington rallies over the past few days. Pakistan enjoys the status of a major non-NATO ally, but given the heated rhetoric between the countries, Pakistan could lose its status as an ally on the so-called war on terror.

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