Monthly Archives: December 2011

By Surbhi Bhatia Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev’s fasting grabbed attention of the entire world. But did you know there is one lady from an Indian North Eastern state Manipur who is fighting for the rights of North Eastern…

SRINAGAR, (SANA): The Hong Kong-based human rights organisation, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has urged India to withdraw draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from occupied Kashmir.

The Asia Human Rights Commission in its statement said that the alarming number of human rights abuses committed by the Indian army under AFSPA was depressing proof to the draconian nature of this law.

“Many lives lost already…to this the Act underscores the non-compatibility of this law to the notion of democracy,” the statement added.