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Day: August 12, 2022

Man from Ahmadi minority stabbed to death in Pakistan

Published by Al-Araby A member of Pakistan’s minorityAhmadi community was stabbed to death in the eastern town of Rabwah on Friday allegedly for refusing to chant Islamist slogans, a community activist and police said. Members of the long-persecuted Ahmadi community, who see

Events following Iran’s fatwa against author Salman Rushdie

Published by Reuters UK (Reuters) – Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie, who was attacked on a New York state lecture stage on Friday, spent years in hiding after he was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing. Following are some

Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage, rushed to hospital

Published by AFP New York (AFP) – British author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have made him the target of Iranian death threats, was attacked and stabbed in the neck at a literary event on Friday in western New York state. Police said

How an Indian woman returned to her Pakistani childhood home

Published by Al-Araby In 1947, when Britain finally concluded its colonial rule in India, a 15-year-old girl from Rawalpindi (now Pakistan) was in India with her family. As Reena Verma Chibber enjoyed her summer holidays, communal violence broke out across the country

VR returns survivors of Indian Partition to ancestral homes

Published by Al-Araby If the past is a foreign country, do you need a visa? And whose to say that place remains? Advances in virtual reality have helped realise half this hypothetical; harnessing technical sightlines to simulate geographies and stimulate memory. The