Tens of thousands of Hindus moving from Pakistan to India continue to languish in makeshift camps near the border with no legal right to work – 70 years after partition unleashed the largest mass migration in human history. Many of them have no choice but to toil illegally in the stone quarries near where they … Read more
Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how her family fled India during Partition in 1947. Just six years old when she boarded an overcrowded train bound for the newly-created Muslim state of Pakistan, Ara recalls watching armed Sikhs approach — then … Read more
A private legal practitioner, Daniel Sagu Osei has called for the abolition of the Council of State, describing it “as an irrelevant institution draining the national coffers”. According to him, the institution’s loss of relevance was as a result of the governance system practised in the country adding that “it is just duplicating the work … Read more