Sikhs

Pakistani Sikhs Back in the ‘Dark Ages’ of Religious Persecution

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Balwan Singh, an 84-year-old shopkeeper living in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is well past retirement age, but any illusions he may have had about living out his golden years in peace and security have long since been dashed.

India’s Crusader Against Impunity

By Beena Sarwar
As senior Indian journalist Manoj Mitta was testifying before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress last month about mass violence and impunity in India, President Barack Obama escorted India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Martin Luther King Memorial.

U.S.: Political Leadership Critical to Fighting Rising Islamophobia

By Zoha Arshad
The attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in early August on the heels of the shooting at a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado signals the rise of right-wing domestic terrorism in the United States, experts say.


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