Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Kalash, Bahai, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, all of whom coexist alongside the Muslim majority. From the very inception of
Editorial Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara has publicly accepted responsibility for the Negombo Prison tragedy. That statement cannot be treated as a symbolic gesture made during a moment of grief. In a country
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The gunshots and screams that echoed from Negombo prison in July 2026 marked a moment of profound alarm for the country’s correctional system. What unfolded inside the
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Editorial After his brief visit to the Vatican, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith returned to Colombo and told the people that they must follow their conscience. He spoke about how, throughout Sri Lanka’s modern
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Editorial Negombo Prison is not merely the scene of another prison riot. It is the scene of a state failure. Twenty-six people are now reported dead. More than hundred have been injured.
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Military-style training programmes for civilian co-operative jobs in Indonesia have come under intense scrutiny after several trainees died during mandatory boot camps, raising fresh concerns over the expanding role of the armed
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The Argentine judiciary has annulled a decree issued by President Javier Milei that sought to restrict the granting of Argentine citizenship to foreign nationals, ruling that the measure exceeded executive powers and
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A United Nations expert has warned that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance remain deeply entrenched across all levels of sport worldwide, urging states and sporting bodies to take coordinated action
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Warren Buffett has delayed his usual midyear donation to the Gates Foundation, breaking a two-decade pattern of annual contributions as he waits for the results of an internal review examining the foundation’s
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On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative
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Radical Islamist Pakistani origin mafia, the ill-famed ‘grooming gangs’ have got thoroughly exposed for their nefarious, rapacious, pervert and abusive sexual acts against vulnerable girls and women of non-muslim origin in United
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