Tag - South East Asia
Benazir Bhutto had degrees from Harvard and Oxford. She spoke fluent and unaccented English. Her looks were patrician and she came out as a liberal humanist in a rabidly anti-feminist Pakistan. In other words, Mrs. Bhutto was the only real challenge...
US soldiers are celebrating Thanksgiving in Afghanistan and this has made international news. The Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross had lost his legs to landmines, and his plight is making headlines simultaneously. Both stories are...
Bangladesh, which came into existence only four decades ago as an independent country following the partition of Pakistan, is a predominantly Muslim country but has always remained steeped into liberal and rich traditions of communal amity, leaving...
It is heartening that Muslim youth are responding to the call of the time. Here is a small article by Shaddan Alam, a student of Aligarh Muslim University.
Has anyone ever wondered why no fatwa, is ever issued on those men who drink liquor and then beat...
Jehanabad, a district headquarters in Bihar province of India witnessed unprecented scenes as the town's prison and police lines came under siege of leftist terrorists on Sunday(Nov. 14) evening. The naxalites, as Maoists, left-wing, terrorists are...
The Sri Lankan Police recovered a suicide jacket in Colombo, the capital of strfe-torn Srilanka, following a tip-off. The jacket, packed with C-4 explosives, was recovered from Kollupitiya, a plush residential and commercial area. The police, after a...
China has asked Pakistan to investigate and share information on a recent threat of terrorist attacks on tourist spots in Chinese-administered Hong Kong and Midland China. In an official request through its embassy in Islamabad, the Chinese Government...
Notwithstanding the denials by Pakistan, India has credible reasons to belive that the notorious terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba was instrumental behind the New Delhi serial bomb blasts on October 29. Just last month, the Lashkar-e-Taiba served public...
More than sixty persons are feared dead in three simultaneous bomb blasts at three places in New Delhi, the capital of India at 17.45 (Indian Standard Time) on Satuday (Oct. 29). Scores of injured have been admitted to various hospitals. The Police...
At least 37 people, including eight women, mainly Karbi tribals, were killed on October 17 in two separate attacks by rival tribes in Indiaa's northeastern state of Assam. In the first incident, 22 people were hacked to death and their dismembered...
About 20 suspected Muslim terrorists stormed a Buddhist monastery, hacked an elderly monk to death and fatally shot two temple boys Sunday in southern Thailand. Two policemen and six other people were also died in separate incidents across Thailanda's...
Six Uzbel mercenary terrorists were killed by security forces in the Laddha sub-division of the South Waziristan Agency of Pakistan on October 15. Inviting or accomodating mercenaries has become a Frankenstein's monster for Pakistan. He encouraged such...
The Indonesian government is under mounting pressure from other countries, in particular Australia to ban the Muslim terrorist organisation Jamaah Islamiyah (JI). The JI has already put in the list of terrorist organisation by the UN, the US and...
Public feelings in India and Pakistan have been aroused on the waxing issue of Kashmir in both the countries by the successive governments that normal relations between the two does not seem to be in the offing. For instance, the petty issue of help...
Two high school principles in the Tamil Tigers (a terrorist group) dominated Jaffna town in northern Srilanka were shot dead during two days (Oct. 12 1nd 13). A victim was shot dead by Tamil Tigers terrorists when he was visiting a concert in his...
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