A suicide bomber has struck an election meeting in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, killing at least eight people, including a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, a provincial official said. Saleh Mohammad Achekzai was holding a meeting in front of his house in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, when the suicide bomber detonated his explosives on Tuesday. The blast also killed several… Read more »
In Iran, women’s sports are a controversial subject. Strict regulations have been enforced since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Women have only been allowed to participate in athletic competitions and the Olympics since 1990. Even today, women are not allowed to participate in sports such as swimming or wrestling on the international level. This is due to the Islamic religious… Read more »
A series of alleged extra-judicial killings by police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has raised serious concerns about its force. Sharat Pradhan and Nitin Srivastava report for the BBC.”I got a call from the police at around 6.30am, asking if I wanted to film a gun battle going on with two criminals,” says a TV journalist from… Read more »
A series of alleged extra-judicial killings by police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has raised serious concerns about its force. Sharat Pradhan and Nitin Srivastava report for the BBC. “I got a call from the police at around 6.30am, asking if I wanted to film a gun battle going on with two criminals,” says a TV journalist… Read more »
Every eight minutes, a child goes missing in India- between 2012 and 2017, 250,000 children were reported as missing by the Indian government. The number is probably much higher- many families don’t report their missing kids because they believe that their children have been sent away for schooling. Known as the “lost generation”, they are exploited for labor by gangs…. Read more »
WASHINGTON: The US is unlikely to revoke the suspension of aid to Pakistan until it sees substantial progress against terrorists and their safe havens, the Trump administration has told Islamabad as top officials of the two countries met here to try to reset their strained ties.
KABUL: An Afghan official says a suicide bomber has struck an election rally in the country’s eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 30.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces killed seven militants in a firefight after insurgents crossed the Afghan border into Pakistan‘s restive tribal region, the military said on Tuesday.
Here are many reasons why people might want to kill a tiger, not the least of which is self-defence, but in Bangladesh the killings have a surprising motive. Even today, people still kill tigers and other endangered species. One of the most important questions to ask is why they do it, because it is only by understanding people’s motives that… Read more »
India’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ban on gay sex after a decades-old campaign against a colonial-era law that was used to hold back LGBT rights. Members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups held tearful celebrations in cities across the South Asian nation of 1.25 billion people as the historic verdict was read out. “The law had become a… Read more »