Ever since a prolonged blockade of Nepal’s border crossings with India back in 2015, which left the country short of fuel and medicine for several months, Kathmandu has sought access to chinese trading ports in order to increase their dependence on India. On September 1, 2018 the nepalese government announced that China is now allowing Nepal access to their ports… Read more »
In an effort to stop terrorist organizations such as the Taliban and ISIS, the United States and Afghan government have been utilizing airstrikes in Afghanistan as a way to stop the terrorist organizations’ advances; however, these airstrikes have been killing and wounding innocent civilians.
Kathmandu, Nepal – China has granted Nepalaccess to its land and seaports, top officials of the two countries announced earlier this month, ending the landlocked Himalayan nation’s dependence on India for trading routes. Nepal can use four seaports in Tianjin, Shenzhen, Lianyungang and Zhanjiang and three dry ports in Lanzhou, Lhasa and Xigatse in China, according to the protocol on transport… Read more »
Three weeks following India’s Supreme Court Judgement to decriminalize gay sex, their top court has decided to decriminalize another British-colony-era law, adultery. Since 1860, a man could be jailed for up to five years if he had sex with a married woman without getting her husband’s permission. It’s important that India has been decriminalizing these outdated laws as India continues… Read more »
ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan confirmed Monday a Taliban prisoner has killed at least eight policemen, including three senior officers, after covertly seizing an assault rifle from a guard at the detention facility in southern Zabul province. The incident happened while security guards were offering evening prayers late Sunday at the Shar-e-Safa district jail, a police officer told VOA. Ghulam… Read more »
ISLAMABAD — The United Nations announced Tuesday its initial findings have indicated recent airstrikes by pro-government forces in Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, almost all of them women and children. The latest Afghan civilian casualties occurred in Kapisa and Maidan Wardak provinces on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, where Afghan forces, together with coalition partners, were conducting counter-Taliban operations, local… Read more »
India’s supreme court has upheld the legality of the government’s Aadhaar system, the world’s largest biometric database containing the personal information of more than a billion Indians. The five-judge bench of India’s top court decided the benefits of the systemoutweighed the risks to privacy – but pruned back larger ambitions for the scheme by laying down stringent new limits on… Read more »
This past Saturday, September 22nd, several gunmen killed nearly 25 people and wounded 60 others at a military parade in Iran. The attack occurred in Ahvaz, a refractory province in Iran in which the majority of the country’s Arab minority resides. The parade was meant to mark the anniversary of the war with Iraq which took place from 1980 through 1988,… Read more »
In June 2014, a little-known Sunni insurgent group calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured city after city in a three-week blitz through Northern Iraq that ended with the declaration of an Islamic caliphate under its commander Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. Combining tactical innovation on the ground with an unprecedented global propaganda offensive, ISIS changed the face… Read more »
Diplomats from India and Pakistan aired their differences over the disputed region of Kashmir at the UN this week, in what was supposed to be a general session on the merits of mediation at the organisation’s headquarters in New York. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres opened the Security Council debate by saying that mediating peace had become “increasingly complex” in the modern world – and so it proved,… Read more »