South and central Asia is riddled with corruption and ungodly abominations ranging from suicide bombers in Afghanistan to child slavery. the terrifying thing is that these types of things are not uncommon ins this region of the world. in places where there is political corruption or no specific figures to set laws and social construct, some people take advantage of… Read more »
Aljazeera A suicide bomber has killed 15 Afghan army cadets as they were leaving their base in the capital, Kabul, officials said, taking the death toll from attacks this week across the war-torn country to more than 250. The suicide bombing on Saturday was the second such incident in Kabul in 24 hours, and the seventh major assault in Afghanistan… Read more »
Aljazeera Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to cooperate on the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, who have fled what the UN has described as “textbook ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State. More than 600,000 have crossed into Bangladesh in the last two months, but given the violence and Myanmar’s history of refusing citizenship to Rohingya, many… Read more »
Aljazeera Urmila Chaudhary wants to change Nepal. The 23-year-old woman fights against centuries-old social structures with one goal: to end child slavery in her country. At the age of six, Urmila’s family sold her to become a household slave, or kamlari, in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu. Every year, her parents received money from her enslavers, for whom Urmila had… Read more »
Aljazeera Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been indicted on corruption charges stemming from leaked documents known as the Panama Papers. A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Thursday indicted Sharif and his daughter over allegations linked to ownership of London properties, pressing charges over accusations that could see the former leader jailed. Sharif, 67, resigned in July after the Supreme… Read more »
I think that the countries in this region are gradually becoming a better place. The Rohingyan’s, while refugees, are being taken care of by many countries and NGO’s who rushed to their aid. after being essentially “ethnic cleansed” these people have been oppressed and forced out of their country and it’s warming to see the world coming together to help… Read more »
Aljazeera As Nepal woke up this month from the slumber of Dashain holidays, a political bombshell sent alarm bells ringing across the country. Nepal’s communist parties announced that they were forming a pan-leftist alliance, a combined communist force that would eventually become Nepal’s single communist party. The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and the Nepal Communist Party (United), the… Read more »
Aljazeera The governments of Iraq, Turkey and Iran have joined ranks in announcing new measures against Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG. This follows last month’s controversial referendum on the future Kurdish secession from Baghdad. The nonbinding vote result was celebrated by Kurds in Iranian border towns in support of a bigger Kurdish dream. Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford reports from… Read more »
Aljazeera Bangladeshi government, UN agencies, and a number of NGOs have launched a massive vaccination campaign in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar to save hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from the spread of cholera outbreak. Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health, supported by The World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and other NGOs, distributed oral vaccine to 88,000 Rohingya on Tuesday in a large-scale… Read more »
I think that south and central Asia is in utter turmoil at this point in time. Rather than being one with each other and settling with a compromise they continue to act in violence, civil war, and ethnic cleansings. In a country like the United States we are used to living in harmony and as one large society who can… Read more »