The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers in the country’s south, east and west, and killing at least 74 people, officials said. I find all of these attacks very unnerving. That people need to go to the extent of not just taking their own life, but the… Read more »
NEW DELHI: India and European Union have restarted negotiations on a civil nuclear agreement that was virtually mothballed after being signed way back in 2009. European Union experts from Brussels held discussions with officials from department of atomic energy last week in Mumbai. With Europol beginning a working relationship with India’s NIA to tackle terrorism and track terror groups that… Read more »
Calling the United States and India “two bookends of stability on either side of the globe,” the Trump administration on Wednesday bluntly proposed that Washingtonand New Delhi work together in the Indo-Pacific region to counter the disruptive force that China has become. In a stunning new dynamic unveiled by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Trump’s America ditched the pussy-footing and… Read more »
A housewife was found murdered in her bedroom in Gaibandha Sadar upazila yesterday. Police said Jharna Begum, 40, wife of Shakhawat Hossain Khan of Davidcompanypara in Sadar municipality, was found murdered in her living room around 11:00am when none of the family members were present at the house. Shakhawat said he was at his ice-cream factory adjacent to his house,… Read more »
Tortured, sold as a slave three times and consumed with guilt after seeing his cousin drown before his eyes, Bangladeshi teenager Khaled Hossain fears he will never recover from the trauma of his failed attempt to reach Europe. While hundreds of thousands of Rohingya escape into Bangladesh fleeing what UN calls “textbook ethnic cleansing” in Myanmarhoping for a better life, there… Read more »
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers in the country’s south, east and west, and killing at least 74 people, officials said. Among those killed in one of the attacks was a provincial police chief. Scores were also wounded, both policemen and civilians.
President Trump announced Friday that he will not recertify the Iran nuclear deal. As NPR’s Scott Horsley writes, Trump “is stopping short of asking Congress to reimpose sanctions on Tehran. Instead, the president is urging lawmakers to pass a new law, spelling out conditions under which sanctions could be reimposed.” Our original post:
Bhutan has initiated talks with their Chinese counterparts in New Delhi regarding the dispute in the Doklam region.
Islamabad, Pakistan – A suicide bomber has killed at least seven police officers and wounded 22 others in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. The attack targeted a truck carrying police personnel on the city’s main Saryab road on Wednesday morning, local police official Muhammad Akbar told Al Jazeera.
This is a prime example of what happens when outside foreign powers decide to intervene with nations that they don’t understand. When Britain drew the Durand line they didn’t have any regard for how it would affect the people of that region. Especially in a region so rich with tribal ties, the line has become problematic in that people’s loyalty… Read more »