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Reparations are broadly understood as compensation given for an abuse or injury. [1] The colloquial meaning of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see war reparations) that were punitive mechanisms determined by treaty and paid by the surrendering side of a conflict, such as the World War I reparations paid by ...
Allah Bux Muhammad Umar Soomro (Sindhi: اللهَ بخشُ محمد عمر سوُمَرو ) (1900 – 14 May 1943), (Khan Bahadur Sir Allah Bux Muhammad Umar Soomro OBE till September 1942) or Allah Baksh Soomro, was a zamindar, government contractor, Indian independence activist and politician from the province of Sindh in colonial India.
In the wake of migration and the accompanying riots in 1947, much of his property, especially valuable manuscripts, papers and books were lost. [citation needed] However, some of the material which he brought to Pakistan is kept in the Urdu Dictionary Board library. [1] The ordeals of partition and the migration also adversely affected Abdul ...
UN General Assembly Resolution 60/147, the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, is a United Nations Resolution about the rights of victims of international crimes.
Climate reparations are a type of requested loss and damage payments for damage and harm caused by climate change, which may include debt cancellation. [1] [2] [3] The term climate reparations differs from simple "loss and damage," in that it is based on the concept of reparations, that compensation holds countries accountable for historical emissions, and is an ethical and moral obligation.
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As one of the only written sources about the Arab conquest of Sindh, and therefore the origins of Islam in India, the Chach Nama is a key historical text that has been co-opted by different interest groups for several centuries, and it has significant implications for modern imaginings about the place of Islam in South Asia.
Ghulam Murtaza Syed (Sindhi: غلام مرتضيٰ سيد , 17 January 1904 – 25 April 1995), [3] known as G. M. Syed was a prominent Sindhi politician, who is known for his scholarly work, [4] [5] Later proposing ideological groundwork for separate Sindhi identity and laying the foundations of Sindhudesh movement. [6]