Photo source: Bloomberg By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront The UN believes that there are about one million Uyghur Muslims in internment camps in secrecy. The entity has recently put sanctions against the Chinese officials.  The Chinese government denies such claims, and interpret the internment, as a place only for criminals, with registered offences, who are being sent to ‘vocational, educational and employment centres’. The Chinese call these centres ‘schools’ and even ‘hospitals’. In January 2011, Radio Free Asia alleged that around 120,000 Uyghurs were deemed to be held as political opponents at re-education camps in Kashgar, in the Republic of China. China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) put a figure of 228,000, in 2017. According to an Oped by Sigal Samuel, in The Atlantic, this indoctrination process lasts for several months, where they were forced to renounce their faith, and are forced to recite Communist propaganda songs every day. There are similar ...

Photo Source: The Sunday Times By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe UpFront Imran Khan, the cricketer, who won the 1992 World Cup for Pakistan, has surprised a few after becoming the new prime minister of Pakistan in the 2018 election. For the ardent followers of Imran Khan in Pakistan, and in the diaspora, this might be the happiest day of their lives. It is because he has come a long way, from being one of the finest all-around players in Pakistan’s cricketing history, to Pakistan’s 22nd Prime Minister. Imran Khan's historic win has happened because Pakistanis were brimming for a change. He, in many ways, was an embodiment of a change, in the minds of many Pakistanis, with his strong, strategic, catch all politics. By believing that corruption is a national malaise, his cause, it seems, was helped through, by the people. Before the election, there was a threat of around ten suicide attacks, but a transition in the electoral process happened smoothly. If Imran Khan sticks around ...