The Foreign Office (FO) said on Saturday that Pakistan had successfully launched an indigenous satellite electro-optical from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, terming it a “significant milestone”. “The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) has successfully launched its indigenous electro-optical satellite (EO-3) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, marking another significant milestone in […]
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Launch of Pakistan’s First Indigenous Transparency Index A New Scientific Benchmark for Measuring Institutional Accountability
The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), in collaboration with Ipsos, has officially launched the Index of Transparency and Accountability in Pakistan (iTAP). This inaugural indigenous survey provides a scientific benchmark for measuring public trust, transparency, and accountability across the nation’s public institutions. The launch ceremony, held at the FPCCI Capital House, […]
Protesters demand probe into Canada indigenous schools
Hundreds of protesters in Canada’s capital called on Saturday for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at several of the facilities. Until the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous, Inuit and Metis youths were forcibly enrolled in the schools, where students were […]
The battle for Brazil’s indigenous land hots up
Brazil’s indigenous peoples are bracing for a legal battle with far-right President Jair’s Bolsonaro’s government as it seeks to rush laws through parliament to carve away at their land. Indigenous people, who represent some 0.5 percent of Brazil’s population, hold about 13 percent of its land under ancestral rights guaranteed by the country’s 1988 constitution. […]
Trudeau doesn’t rule out criminal probe of indigenous school graves
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Friday for “harmful government policies” and did not rule out a criminal probe after hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at a former indigenous residential school in western Canada. The public mea culpa for the policy of indigenous assimilation and other historical wrongs comes one day after the Cowessess First […]
Canada shaken by discovery of 751 unmarked graves at indigenous school
More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada, a tribal leader said Thursday — the second such shock discovery in less than a month. The revelation once again cast a spotlight on a dark chapter in Canada’s history, and revived calls on the […]
Canada finds hundreds of graves at former indigenous school: media
Hundreds of unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic residential school for indigenous children in western Canada, local media reported late Wednesday. Excavations at the site around the former school in Marieval, Saskatchewan began at the end of May. They followed the discovery of the remains of 215 schoolchildren at another former indigenous […]
Movement in occupied territories indigenous, Pakistan tells India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday categorically rejected India’s allegations of ‘cross-border infiltration,’ saying the movement against illegal occupation in the occupied state of Jammu Kashmir was indigenous. The Foreign Office spokesperson said that the movement against the Indian occupation and its state-sponsored terrorism in the occupied territories is indigenous and is likely to continue till India […]
Alaska’s indigenous people feel the heat of climate change
The cemetery has already been moved twice, the old school is underwater and the new one is facing the same fate as erosion constantly eats away at the land in Napakiak. The tiny village located in southwestern Alaska, along the meandering Kuskokwim River, is one of dozens of coastal indigenous communities across the state that […]