https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/five-afghan-cricket-players-killed-by-suspected-taliban-gunman-9082159.html A gunman shot and killed five cricket players in Laghman province, Afghanistan, on Thursday. The Afghan authorities have said that the man on a motorcycle opened fire at the group of local cricketers in Alinghar distrcit while they were playing a game. A provincial spokesman, Sarhadii Zhouak, said the attacker then fled the scene. No one has yet… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/taliban-denies-ordering-10-year-old-girl-to-carry-out-suicide-bombing-on-helmand-checkpoint-9047659.html The statement comes a day after the girl, who is known only as Spozhmai, said she refused to carry out an attack in Helmand province after her brother allegedly dressed her in a vest packed with explosives and sent her to a checkpoint. According to a police commander, border police in the southern Afghan province had arrested the… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kyrgyzstan-constitution-lost-cannot-find-central-asia-a7373171.html Politicians in Kyrgyzstan have lost the country’s constitution. It emerged during a debate over planned changes to the law that nobody in the central Asian country knew where the original document was. The most recent version of the constitution was approved by referendum in June 2010, when changes were made to give more authority to parliament and diminish the power of the president…. Read more »
A few weeks ago 8 suspects went on trial over the gang rape and murder of an 8 year old girl in Indian administered Kashmir. The girl was kidnapped, drugged and repeatedly raped over five days, including inside a Hindu temple, before being strangled and beaten with a rock. After Hindu lawyers were seen trying to stop the police from filing… Read more »
TOI GHAZNI: Taliban militants captured a district in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province near the provincial capital early on Thursday and killed more than a dozen people including the district’s governor, a police official said. Ghazni’s Khawaja Omari district was considered one of the province’s safest districts. The militants killed district governor Ali Dost Shams, his bodyguards, seven police officers and five… Read more »
Reuters ISLAMABAD/KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan’s largest TV station has been allowed back on the air at some major cable operators after talks with the military on demands it make changes in political coverage, two officials who work for the channel’s media group told Reuters on Wednesday. After Geo TV, Pakistan’s most popular station, was taken off the air across much… Read more »
France 24 A suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 18, officials said, as the Afghan capital celebrated the Nawruz holiday marking the start of the Persian new year. The explosion underlined the threat to the city from militant attacks, despite government promises to tighten security in… Read more »
France 24 Eight suspects went on trial in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday over the gang rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl, a day after thousands protested across the country to seek an end to sexual violence against women. Details of the Muslim girl’s gruesome rape and murder in Jammu and Kashmir state have made national headlines and heightened communal… Read more »
A country’s constitution doesn’t just go missing. This event highlights government corruption in Kyrgyzstan in an attempt to empower the parliament, and decline the power of the president. Kyrgyzstan doesn’t have the original copy, but it retains the copy from 2010. There is much debate on where the actual document is, and some even believe that there wasn’t an original… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/six-us-soldiers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-afghanistan-9011627.html Six American soldiers died in a crash involving an aircraft in Zabul, southern Afghanistan, on Tuesday afternoon. The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the cause of the crash is unknown, but an investigation has been launched into the incident. The Taliban claimed they killed the soldiers and wrote on Twitter that they had shot down the helicopter… Read more »
