The ongoing insurgency in the Balochistan Region of Pakistan has led to sickening numbers of deaths among Baloch separatists and protesters of both the Pakistani and Iranian governments. The Balochs are rising against the powers of the state in order to gain greater autonomy, increased royalties from natural resources and provincial revenue, and to become an independent nation-state. The Pakistani… Read more »
Agni-V, India’s new long range missile, is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead anywhere in China NEW DELHI: A week after India conducted an Agni-IV test, Pakistan yesterday conveyed its “concern” about New Delhi’s missiles programme to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), saying that it posed “a danger to regional peace and stability,” The Express Tribune reported. The MTCR… Read more »
Ten years ago, India was gripped by serial murders in Noida, a wealthy suburb of the capital Delhi, where at least 19 children and women were raped and killed. Businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, in whose house the murders took place, and his manservant, Surinder Koli, were arrested for the crimes. Koli has since been convicted and sentenced to death in… Read more »
Activists accuse Pakistani security forces of extra-judicial killings on a massive scale Nearly 1,000 dead bodies of political activists and suspected armed separatists have been found in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province over the past six years. Activists say the figures, obtained from the human rights ministry by BBC Urdu, point to large-scale extrajudicial killings. Relatives say most victims had been… Read more »
Pakistani human rights activists hold images of bloggers who have gone missing during a protest in Islamabad on January 10, 2017. Hundreds of people have held protests across Pakistan to demand the authorities trace four activists who have gone missing in the past week. No group has said it is holding them. All four aired views critical of the military… Read more »
With virtually no freedom of speech and harsh limitations on foreign press, Uzbekistan is a difficult country to remained informed on. Having never heard of any news coming from Uzbekistan, this documentary and article deeply troubled me. With comparisons to North Korea, this harshly governed country is facing a plethora of problems. Along with human rights violations and a false… Read more »
Uzbekistan is holding a presidential election on Sunday that is going largely unnoticed abroad. The successor to the late president, Islam Karimov, who held power for more than a quarter century, has already been chosen, and the authorities refuse to grant visas to foreign journalists. Our reporter Elena Volochine went to this central Asian country to film a report on… Read more »
Pakistan issues permits for controlled hunting of houbara bustards, a rare bird species, to wealthy Arabs from the Middle East but one province has now imposed a ban. Why?What are houbara bustards? Houbara bustards are a rare breed of migratory birds the size of a chicken. They migrate in their thousands every winter from Central Asia to the arid planes… Read more »
Afghan President Ghani and Indian PM Modi have lashed out at Pakistan for its “lack of cooperation” in the fight against terrorism. Ghani also snubbed Islamabad’s 500-million-dollar aid at the Heart of Asia conference. Speaking at the sixth Heart of Asia ministerial conference in the Indian city of Amritsar, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani urged Pakistani authorities to act against the… Read more »
Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world Sometime next year, if all goes well, a retired jet engine will be mounted on a flatbed trailer and taken to a coal-fired power plant in Delhi. With the exhaust nozzle pointed at the sky, the engine will be placed near the smokestack and turned on. As the engine… Read more »