Category: Asia

PAKISTAN’S QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY ISSUES SHOW-CAUSE NOTICE TO STUDENTS FOR CELEBRATING HOLI

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  Members of PRSF joined the Holi celebrations at Quaid-e-Azam University on June 12. Photo: Twitter@ProgStudentsFed Sun 16 July 2023: Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan’s Islamabad issued a show-cause notice to students for celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi, without taking prior permission, Dawn reported on July 14. The news comes a month after Pakistan’s education minister, Rana Tanveer Hussain, […]

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TALIBAN DESTROYED 40,000 ACRES OF POPPY FIELDS IN AFGHANISTAN’S BADAKHSHAN

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Sat 15 July 2023: In the previous three months, poppy cultivation had been eliminated from 40,000 acres of land in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, Local media reported. The director of the counter-narcotics police division in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, Shafiqullah Hafizi, said that the poppy had been eliminated from 40,000 acres of land over […]

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BASED ON RIGHT-WING ACTIVIST’S COMPLAINT, COLLECTOR BANS NAMAZ AT 800-YEAR-OLD MOSQUE IN INDIA’S MAHARASHTRA

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Sat 15 July 2023: Mumbai: For as long as Aslam recalls, men from the Muslim community have been congregating inside the Jumma Masjid in Jalgaon’s Erandol Taluka five times a day to offer namaz. The 800-year-old structure is an important place of worship in northern Maharashtra and a property registered under the Waqf Board. But it […]

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FLOODING IN INDIA PROMPTS ARMY TO INTERVENE AS RIVER SURGE HALTS INDIA’S CAPITAL

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Fri 14 July 2023: The flooding in India’s capital got worse on Friday as floods from the overflowing Yamuna River approached the Supreme Court’s entrance. According to officials, the flood situation worsened after a regulator of the Delhi Irrigation and Flood Control Department was damaged near Indraprastha, resulting in flooding in ITO and surrounding areas. […]

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MALAYSIA’S ANWAR TALKS TESLA, STARLINK WITH BILLIONAIRE TECH MAGNATE ELON MUSK

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Fri 14 July 2023: The billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim discussed investments in the country of Southeast Asia. Anwar claimed that during a 25-minute virtual conversation with Musk on Friday, they spoke about the arrival of electric carmaker Tesla in Malaysia as well as the satellite internet service Starlink. […]

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PAKISTAN PM SHEHBAZ ANNOUNCES TO HAND OVER POWER TO CARETAKER SETUP NEXT MONTH

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Thu 13 July 2023: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in an address to the nation on Thursday, said the incumbent government would hand over the reins to the caretaker set-up in August. Sharif’s televised address to the nation and announcement of the caretaker government came three months before the general elections in October. He, however, […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON MANIPUR, CALLS FOR PROTECTION OF RELIGIOUS MINORITIES

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Thu 13 July 2023: New Delhi: The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution that called on Indian authorities to take “all necessary” measures to stop the violence in Manipur and protect religious minorities, especially Christians. The resolution was tabled by five political groups and adopted by a show of hands during the plenary session of the European […]

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NO END TO DEADLY VIOLENCE IN INDIA’S ETHNICALLY-DIVIDED MANIPUR

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  People laying make-believe coffins to rest during a protest in Manipur’s Churachandpur district last month. Thu 13 July 2023: Clashes between Meitei and Kuki-Zo tribes continue even after two months, with over 140 dead and tens of thousands displaced. Churachandpur, India – Bawla (name changed) and more than a dozen other residents of Langza village […]

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TALIBAN REFUTES CLAIMS OF ABANDONED US WEAPONS BEING SOLD TO IRAN AND PALESTINE

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Wed 12 July 2023: Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Monday refuted claims by US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul that the IEA is selling weapons left behind by US troops to Washington’s “adversaries like Iran and the Palestinians against Israel.”  Mujahid said on Twitter the allegations are not true and that after the […]

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CHINA PROMISES ‘ROBUST RESPONSE’ TO ANY NATO EXPANSION IN ASIA

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  Leaders from Asia pose for a group photo with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Vilnius. Wed 12 July 2023: Beijing has reacted angrily to a NATO communique portraying China as a major challenge to the group’s interests and security. In a strongly worded communique issued halfway through their two-day summit in the Lithuanian […]

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