In Pakistan, the population is not homogenous. There are many different ethnic and cultural groups that are forced to live together and it often doesn’t result in harmony. Two examples of these conflict areas are Balochistan in the west and Kashmir in the northeast.
Al Jazeera Islamabad, Pakistan – A suicide bomber has killed at least seven police officers and wounded 22 others in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. The attack targeted a truck carrying police personnel on the city’s main Saryab road on Wednesday morning, local police official Muhammad Akbar told Al Jazeera. Provincial home minister Sarfaraz Bugti, speaking to media at the… Read more »
France 24 UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a “hell on earth” in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The U.N. children’s agency has issued a report that documents the plight of children who account for 58 percent of the refugees who have… Read more »
France 24 Three Kashmiri rebels and two Indian soldiers have been killed in a fierce gunbattle in the disputed Himalayan region, police said Sunday. The fighting erupted Saturday after Indian troops raided southern Awneera village on a tip that at least seven rebels fighting New Delhi’s rule over Kashmirwere hiding there, said top police officer S.P. Vaid.
BBC Gulnara Karimova, the once-powerful daughter of late Uzbek ex-President Islam Karimov, has been in detention since a corruption conviction in 2015, officials have confirmed. Ms Karimova, 45, was tipped to succeed her father, who died last year, until she fell out with her family in 2014. The prosecutor-general’s office said “a five-year restriction of liberty order” was imposed nearly… Read more »
Based on the information from Al Jazeera, that India is not only rejecting Rohingya refugees but is now attempting to deport those already in the country, India is clearly going through a period of xenophobia. This is most likely a result of the increased influence of ISIS in the middle east. However, in many countries, the people have developed xenophobia… Read more »
Al Jazeera In March 1959, the spiritual head of the Tibetans, the then 24-year-old Dalai Lama, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, made a dramatic escape on horseback from the Potala Palace in Lhasa. Assisted by Tibetans resisting China, he crossed into Tawang in India’s then North East Frontier Agency (NEFA, now in Arunachal Pradesh). At the border, waiting… Read more »
BBC At least 18 people have been killed and 27 injured in a suicide attack on a Sufi Muslim shrine in Pakistan’s south-western province of Baluchistan. Crowds of devotees had gathered for a religious ceremony in Jhal Magsi, near the provincial capital Quetta.
BBC An Indian soldier and three militants were killed in a suicide attack on a paramilitary camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. The attack on the camp near Srinagar began about 04:00 local time (22:30GMT Monday). It took eight hours for Indian forces to end the gun battle. The attackers’ identities have not been confirmed by officials.
France 24 He trekked to Bangladesh as part of an exodus of a half million people from Myanmar, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades. But after climbing out of a boat on a creek on Friday, Mohamed Rafiq could go no further. He collapsed onto a muddy spit of land cradling his wife in his lap a… Read more »