カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Move fuels fears former Soviet republic is clamping down on dissent before electionsTajikistan has said it is holding an independent journalist and government critic on extremism charges, fuelling concerns that the government of the ex-Soviet republic …
Khalid Mollah died while working among the thousands who dismantle old ships in Chittagong. Now, in a test case that could transform the industry, his widow is suing the firm that sold the vessel for scrapKhalid Mollah was uneducated, illiterate and ou…
I still wonder whether he would have survived with access to treatments we would have used in the UKThe boy’s hands were very cold. He was about 13 or 14 but looked younger, with untidy dark hair. He had been bitten by a snake and was now severely unwe…
Children aged nine and 10 were interrogated by police after allegedly anti-government performanceThe Indian police are investigating a primary school for sedition over a student play which voiced opposition to the prime minister and his controversial n…
Government says schools to face more scrutiny after report that thousands may have been victims of paedophile ringAfghanistan’s attorney general has launched an investigation into the alleged abuse of more than 500 schoolboys, following the discovery o…
Warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions, the most since Pentagon began keeping track in 2006The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a tally in 2006, reflecting an apparent effort t…
Bibi, freed last year and now in Canada, will release her autobiography on WednesdayAsia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy, has released two photographs taken in exile, as she prepares for the launch…
Only two service members where onboard surveillance planeUS denies Taliban claim that they shot down aircraftThe United States has recovered the remains of two American service members killed in the crash of an air force plane in Afghanistan. They were…
Taliban claim they shot down US air force E-11A plane over territory near Ghazni cityThe US military has confirmed that one of its aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan but said there was “no indication the crash was caused by enemy fire”. A Taliban …
Pashtun leader had accused military of human rights abuses and links with the TalibanA high-profile civil rights activist has been arrested in Pakistan on charges of sedition in the latest incident in a mounting crackdown on critics of the army.Manzoor…
The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country’s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees It should be one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations – a remote Indian ocean island …
Critics may carp, but stellar lineups, celebrity sightings and swarming crowds make Jaipur the world’s biggest literary eventFor a country too often associated with poverty and bad news, the annual Jaipur literature festival is a matter of national pri…
The ICJ ruling on Myanmar is a rare bright point in a woeful international response. Unfortunately its powers are limitedOn Thursday the internet in Kutupalong, a city-sized refugee camp in south-eastern Bangladesh, was switched back on for a few hours…
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget “no sex please, we’re British”. More a case of “there will be lots of sex, we’re the British Museum”. But the curator has assured the public the first ma…
Chief minister argues initiative will empower women, but move sparks controversy in conservative Indian stateWhen women reach the polling booths to cast their vote in current village council elections in Rajasthan, they may be asked to remove their vei…