COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh The United Nations’ refugee agency has asked Bangladesh to allow it to negotiate with the United States, Canada and some European countries to resettle around 1,000 Rohingya Muslims living in the South Asian nation, a senior official at the agency said. Tens of thousands of Rohingya live in Bangladesh after fleeing Buddhist-majority Myanmar since the early 1990s,… Read more »
Sri Lanka’s prime minister has urged compatriots who are being held in Australian-run immigration detention centres to come home. Ranil Wickremesinghe claimed the Sri Lankans had broken the law in trying to flee to Australia but insisted they would not face prosecution if they returned. “Come back. All is forgiven,” Wickremesinghe said as he stood beside Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra… Read more »
On Monday afternoon, 20-year-old goldsmith Hassan Ahmed was heading back home from work on his motorbike and passing by Lahore’s busy Mall Road. Hundreds of pharmacists were rallying against changes to a drug sale law, outside of the provincial assembly building. There was a sudden blast. “That is exactly when the suicide bomber detonated the bomb and we lost Hassan,”… Read more »
WASHINGTON/LONDON: India has emerged as a “key player” in a growing global commercial market for space-based surveillance and communication, world media commented on Wednesday after the country scripted history by successfully launching 104 satellites+ using a single rocket. Isro’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 on Wednesday injected India’s weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites, including 96 from the… Read more »
As the United States has undergone a tumultuous administration change, one of the most highly anticipated topics was how the new administration under Donald Trump would react to the nuclear deal. As of now, it’s gone rather poorly, with Trump taking to Twitter to threaten Iran after they tested a weapon. While the United States took it as defiance to… Read more »
China signed a deal with Sri Lanka late last year to further develop the strategic port of Hambantota and build a huge industrial zone nearby, a key part of Beijing’s ambitions to create a modern-day “Silk Road” across Asia. The agreement was welcome relief for the island nation of 20 million people. As they try to reduce the country’s debts,… Read more »
KARACHI: Language acquisition and the role of the state to facilitate it were among some of the topics discussed by renowned linguist Dr Tariq Rahman at the opening of a four-day short course titled ‘Importance of language in education’ on Monday. Organised by the Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences and held at the Gulshan Public School, the keynote speech titled… Read more »
WASHINGTON: The United States and India on Monday signed a defence agreement that will have a direct impact on both Pakistan and China. The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) allows the two allies to use each other’s military facilities for checking China’s growing influence in Asia and in the fight against terrorists. Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar — in… Read more »
Chinese State Commissioner for Counter Terrorism and Security Cheng Guoping met Tariq Fatemi, special assistant to the prime minister on foreign affairs, at the Foreign Office on Monday, a press statement from the foreign ministry said. Guoping is on a three-day visit to Pakistan. During the meeting, Fatemi assured Guoping of Pakistan’s support for China on all core issues, adding… Read more »
Perhaps one of the least talked about persecuted people are the Rohingya Muslims, a minority Muslim group that resides in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The government of Myanmar has been refusing to recognize this group as citizens of the country, causing many of them to flee to Bangladesh or other Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines…. Read more »