Bangladesh has been accused of taking a “devastating step backwards” in the fight against child marriage by introducing a legal loophole that sets no age limit for wedlock. The Child Marriage Restraint Bill keeps the legal age of marriage as 18 for women and 21 for men but introduces exceptions in “special cases” or for in the “best interests” of… Read more »
SRINAGAR: A teenager was killed by a bullet-hit when he was throwing stones to disrupt the anti-terror operations of security forces against two hiding Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists at Padgampora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday morning, director general of J&K police, S P Vaid said. Amir Nazir, 15, was part of a mob pelting stones when a bullet hit him… Read more »
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday asked Pakistan to take action against the increasing number of terrorists being spotted at “launch pads” along the Line of Control, even as it conveyed the two Pakistani teenagers who had accidentally strayed across the border last September would be handed over at the Wagah border on Friday. “In the DGMO-level talks over the hotline… Read more »
Unfortunately, these past couple of weeks have been more tumultuous than usual, and that’s saying something. The Kabul hospital attack was genius in an atrocious way. Hospitals are seen as a sanctuary. A place that’s usually left relatively untouched in conflict/war. Attacking a hospital, however, provides the greatest opportunity to succeed in the terrorist’s goal. Security forces aren’t able to… Read more »
Police open fire after supporters and opponents of upcoming local election clash, leaving at least four people dead. The Unified Marxist and Leninist party organised a get-out-the-vote rally [Shreedhar Poudel/AFP] At least four protesters have been killed and four others injured in Nepal after security forces opened fire at a political rally, according to police. Thousands of officers were deployed… Read more »
Torkham and Chaman crossings reopened for 48 hours to allow stranded visitors in both countries to return home. Pakistan has temporarily reopened its two main border crossings with Afghanistan to allow visitors with valid visas on both sides to return home, the foreign office announced. Pakistan sealed the Torkham and Chaman crossings on February 16, after a string ofsuicide attacks… Read more »
At least 30 people killed, dozens wounded at Sardar Daud Khan military hospital in central Kabul, officials say. At least 30 people have been killed and dozens others wounded in a bomb and gun attack on a military hospital in Afghanistan’s capital, officials said. Defence ministry officials said the attack started at 9:00 with a blast at the front gate… Read more »
Suicide bombers attacked a court complex in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least five people, officials said, in the latest incident in a new surge of Islamist violence. One bomber was briefly on the loose inside the busy court complex in Charsadda district, but was killed by police some 20 minutes after the attack began, officials said. A second… Read more »