Afghanistan has been a talking point for decades. Since the Soviet invasion and the American funding of the anti-communist groups. The country is an area of huge importance for a couple of reasons, its is the crossroads of Asia being the most important country of central Asia because of this. It is an entrance from the Middle East to the… Read more »
BBC The shame of Afghanistan’s virginity tests By Aria Ahmadzai & Camelia SadeghzadehBBC World Service 29 December 2017 Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Messenger Share this with Email Share Image copyrightBBC NEWSImage captionNeda, 18, took a lift home with two male friends and was later forced to undergo a virginity test “My life has… Read more »
Source: Aljazeera Kabul blast at Afghan Voice, Tebyan centre kills dozens 28 Dec 2017 At least 40 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a blast in Kabul at a compound comprising a news agency, Shia cultural centre and religious school, the interior ministry has said. The explosion early on Thursday struck an area close to the Afghan Voice… Read more »
The Afghan president has more powers than a king by Nazif Shahrani 3 Jan 2018 President Ashraf Ghani at the 72nd UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 21, 2017 [Reuters/Stephanie Keith] The dismissal of Governor Atta Muhammad Nur of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan by President Ashraf Ghani on December 18, 2017, was met with adamant defiance by… Read more »
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/deadly-suicide-blast-hits-afghan-capital-180104184313826.html NEWS / WAR & CONFLICT Deadly suicide blast hits Afghan capital 5 Jan 2018 MORE ON AFGHANISTAN Nikki Haley: Pakistan playing ‘double game’ for yearslast week The Afghan president has more powers than a kinglast week Pakistan-US war of words over Donald Trump’s tweetlast week Deadly bombing targets Afghan official’s funerallast week At least 11 people have been… Read more »
A 21-year-old woman has become the first Indian to win a medal at an international skiing event, prompting celebration on social media. Aanchal Thakur won a bronze medal at the Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup in Turkey, which was organised by the International Ski Federation (FIS). Winter sports do not get much recognition in India, given that much of the country… Read more »
Even though Nepal’s leftist alliance group won the elections last month with a sweeping victory, the government has yet to transition powers. This is creating much upset in the nation and is posing a serious threat to the democracy in Nepal. Many voters were hoping that the leftist alliance group could bring stability to the political gridlock and long impoverished nation. Critics… Read more »
A threatening tweet was sent out by the U.S. president suggesting that Pakistan was not an asset to the U.S. due to not being loyalty and the harboring of extremist groups and that he would stop funding Pakistan. This Thursday the U.S. did withdraw funding from Pakistan. Later the president made a remark that countered his first, saying that he… Read more »
BY NPR Pakistan reacted defensively on Friday to an announcement that the White House would suspend most security assistance to its military. The suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid is meant to pressure Pakistan into taking action against militant groups. It followed days of tensions that began with a New Year’s Day tweet by President Trump accusing Pakistan of… Read more »
It has been a year of elections in Nepal. On January 31, then Foreign Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat promised to a clutch of Kathmandu-based envoys that the country would hold all three levels of elections – local, provincial and parliamentary – within the year. In just concluded polls, Mahat himself lost and his Nepali Congress party performed miserably, but the… Read more »