Munawar Zaman
Press TV, New Delhi
It's afternoon and many Rohingya women are waiting in a queue to receive blankets offered by an NGO. Some are angry since they haven’t received any blankets yet. Over the last few days northern India has had freezing weather and that has worsened misery of homelessness for the refugees living in makeshift tents.
Zahid Hussein has come out of his shanty to have some sunlight. He says he is worried as his child has developed a skin disease that’s getting worse and worse. He asked me to come to his shanty, where he is living with his family in appalling conditions.
Activists say such treatment of the community is against the Indian ethos, which consider the world as one family.
In recent years, a vicious expulsion campaign has shed more light on the way India treats specific communities.
Rights activists have been urging the government to adopt a uniform refugee policy, which treats refugees equally regardless of their faith or ethnicity.
Thousands of Rohingya refugees in India are braving the cold weather and live makeshift tents across the Indian Subcontinent. These people, who always face the threat of detention and deportation, are here struggling for survival.
Many refugees I spoke with shared heart-wrenching stories with me, and most of them kept asking why their voice is not being heard in this age of technology.
Based on official estimates, India is home to some 40,000 Rohingya refugees. But independent reports suggest the real figure stands at hundreds of thousands.
Rohingya Muslims are being treated as illegal immigrants in India and elsewhere after fleeing Myanmar. Activists in India have stressed the urgent need to protect the Rohingya rights as refugees.....More Here
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is preparing to leave the Trump administration after what a new report has described as months of tension with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, potentially triggering another change at the army’s top echelons.
According to the Friday report by The Wall Street Journal, Driscoll is expected to step down before the end of the year and could leave his post earlier. The newspaper cited people familiar with discussions over his departure.
The Journal reported that Driscoll and his family vacated the official residence assigned to the army secretary at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall this summer, a move that could indicate he was preparing to leave the position.
The reported departure would come at a time of continuing uncertainty at the top echelons of the army.
Hegseth abruptly removed Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in April, while Trump has not yet nominated a permanent successo....more below
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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns the enemies that any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic will not go unanswered.
In a statement on Thursday, the IRGC issued a “stern warning” to the enemies after US forces launched strikes against the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.
Following the US military attack on a point on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport with aerial projectiles, the IRGC carried out new strikes targeting the US air base from which the attack originated in the wee hours of Thursday, it added.
“This response is a serious warning to the enemy that they should know the act of aggression will not go unanswered,” the IRGC emphasized.
The elite military force warned of a “more decisive” response if the enemy repeated any act of aggression.
It also said the responsibility for the consequences of any IRGC response lies with the aggressor.
The statement comes after the IRGC Navy on Thursday forced an American tanker to turn back. The tanker ...
