By Jonathan Guyer Flash floods over the weekend left one-third of Pakistan submerged from weeks of heavy rains, compounding an already difficult set of political and economic crises in the country. The catastrophic flooding has affected 33 million people, about 15 percent of the population, according to Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority. More than 1,130 people...
Dhaka: Thousands of Rohingya Muslims rallied in Bangladeshi refugee camps to demand justice for a crackdown carried out on them five years ago by the Myanmar military. "We want justice," shouted the refugees, who gathered outside their makeshift dwellings in the district of Cox's Bazar recently. The rally with more than 10,000 people marked the fifth anniversary...
New Delhi: Germany's new ambassador to India Dr Philipp Ackermann has called China claiming the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh "outrageous" and that "infringement at the border is extremely difficult and should not be accepted". The comment came amid the worsening of ties between India and China, with the latter's aggressive actions at the Line of...
New York: India has warned of a "significant increase" in the presence of terrorist groups in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and threats to other countries emanating from the war-torn country. "We need to see concrete progress in ensuring that such proscribed terrorists, entities, or their aliases do not get any support, tacit or direct, either from Afghan soil...
Islamabad: Tens of millions of people across Pakistan were battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade, with countless homes washed away, vital farmland destroyed and the country's main river threatening to burst its banks. Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman said a third of the nation was under water, creating a "crisis of unimaginable proportions". Officials say...
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Thursday extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest through the end of the month, officials said, after police filed terrorism charges against the country’s popular opposition leader. The decision effectively shields Khan from arrest until Sept. 1 over accusations that during a speech last weekend, he threatened police...
Islamabad: Members of Pakistan's minority Sikh community staged a protest in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 23 against police inaction in a case involving the forcible marriage of a Sikh woman to a Muslim man. The protesters blocked the main Buner road for hours. The Sikh community members in their speeches complained that the local...
Dhaka: After shutting down all of its diesel-run power plants last month, Bangladesh has been battling an extreme power shortage. The country has now announced that to tackle the problem it will close schools for one extra day a week and cut office timings by an hour. The South Asian country last month shut down all...
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reached out to his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to facilitate his return to the crisis-hit country, media reports said. Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country and resigned last month in the face of a popular uprising against his government for mismanaging the island nation's economy. He is currently staying in a...
