A few weeks ago 8 suspects went on trial over the gang rape and murder of an 8 year old girl in Indian administered Kashmir. The girl was kidnapped, drugged and repeatedly raped over five days, including inside a Hindu temple, before being strangled and beaten with a rock. After Hindu lawyers were seen trying to stop the police from filing… Read more »
TOI GHAZNI: Taliban militants captured a district in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province near the provincial capital early on Thursday and killed more than a dozen people including the district’s governor, a police official said. Ghazni’s Khawaja Omari district was considered one of the province’s safest districts. The militants killed district governor Ali Dost Shams, his bodyguards, seven police officers and five… Read more »
Reuters ISLAMABAD/KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan’s largest TV station has been allowed back on the air at some major cable operators after talks with the military on demands it make changes in political coverage, two officials who work for the channel’s media group told Reuters on Wednesday. After Geo TV, Pakistan’s most popular station, was taken off the air across much… Read more »
France 24 A suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 18, officials said, as the Afghan capital celebrated the Nawruz holiday marking the start of the Persian new year. The explosion underlined the threat to the city from militant attacks, despite government promises to tighten security in… Read more »
France 24 Eight suspects went on trial in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday over the gang rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl, a day after thousands protested across the country to seek an end to sexual violence against women. Details of the Muslim girl’s gruesome rape and murder in Jammu and Kashmir state have made national headlines and heightened communal… Read more »