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Religions and religious bodies seem to be becoming all prevalent and omnipresent once again. It is unbelievable that Best Buy should get flak for greeting US Muslims Happy Eid on 27th Nov and Gap should inform AFA (American Family Association) about its holiday campaign. Times are changing but this religious fervor will only take us back to medieval [...]

It was UNESCO that took the initiative after the Second World War to organize ‘the world conferences against racism.’ The first two rounds were held in Geneva, with a particular emphasis on ‘apartheid’ in South Africa, and the first conference was held in Durban in 2001. The recently held UN Conference on Racism, dubbed Durban II, was supposed [...]

The United States will not participate in the UN conference against racism which begins Monday in Geneva, as reported by the US State Department in Washington. Preparations for the conference were made unilaterally on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington believes that there are ‘key assumptions’ that can only be resolved in negotiations [...]

The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, announced that general elections will be held in March or April, before the expiry of the current legislature. The Afghan presidential elections had been postponed to August 20 due to the country’s poor security. On January 29, the chairman of the Electoral Commission, Azizul Ludin, announced as expected [...]