In an article that I found on Pakistan, it talks about a court case for a woman who was put on death row for making negative comments after being refused drinking water because of her religion. She was bashing the Islamic religion which is illegal in Pakistan without freedom of speech. Bibi, the woman on death row is a Christian,… Read more »
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – The captain of a Bangladeshi aeroplane “seemed to have an emotional breakdown” before a deadly crash last March, Nepali investigators said in a final report on the Himalayan nation’s worst aviation disaster in 26 years. They blamed the crew’s loss of situational awareness for the crash of the US-Bangla Airlines flight to the Nepali capital from Dhaka… Read more »
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court will on Tuesday begin a review of its acquittal of a Christian woman charged with blasphemy, a verdict that sparked days of Islamist protests over a case that has divided society and incited killings. Asia Bibi, who spent eight years on death row, has been in hiding since the Supreme Court freed her in… Read more »
KABUL (Reuters) – A senior U.S. government official, speaking after six days of U.S. peace talks with Afghan Taliban militants, said on Monday that Washington was committed to withdrawing foreign forces from Afghanistan to end more than 17 years of war. The official, who declined to be identified, described “significant progress” in talks last week with the Taliban in Qatar… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The leader of India’s main opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, promised on Monday to provide the poor with a minimum income if Congress wins an upcoming general election, a pledge the ruling party dismissed as an unaffordable gimmick. Congress officials said the proposal would help eliminate poverty and could be fulfilled with funds now spent on… Read more »