Category: World
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Kaifinama to close South Asian Literature and Art Festival
Kaifinama will be closing the South Asian Literature and Art (SALA) Festival 2019 For the first time, Montalvo Arts Center and Art Forum SF in collaboration with UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies brings to you one of the largest South Asian Literature & Art Festival (SALA) in the US that includes a film…
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Asia Bibi is the kind of people Canada should grant asylum
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, 45, who was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy against Islam in 2010 and acquitted by the Supreme Court last October, has been granted asylum in Canada. Bibi’s counsel Saiful Malook and Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) sources confirmed her departure for Canada, according to Express Tribune. A poor farm worker…
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Washington Sikhs clean up river to mark 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak
WASHINGTON DC: Volunteers of EcoSikh from all over the Washington area cleaned the Kingman Island’s trash and harmful waste on March 30. The clean-up effort was part of Sikh Environment Day and celebrations of the 550th birth-anniversary of Sikh founder Guru Nanak. They collected over 50 bags of trash which included plastic bags, bottles, lids, covers,…
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Czech model Tereza Hluskova jailed in Pakistan for working as `heroin mule’
A Czech model, who was probably working as a `heroin mule’ for some international gangs and caught at Pakistan’s Lahore airport with nine kg of heroin last year, has been jailed for almost nine years by a court in Lahore. Sentencing her to eight years and eight months, the judge also fined her Pakistani rupees…