Fri 29 October 2021: Officials reported Friday that a Taliban envoy has been dispatched to Pakistan to take charge of the Afghan embassy, two months after the hardline Islamist group seized power. In Islamabad, Sardar Ahmad Khan Shokaib has been appointed first secretary, while Taliban officials have been assigned to consulates in Peshawar, Karachi, and […]
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Fri 29 October 2021: On Friday, a close aide of former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to 20 years in prison for treason by Myanmar’s military junta, according to his lawyer. The former parliamentarian is the junta’s first high-ranking member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy to be jailed […]
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Thu 28 October 2021: Three Kashmiri students were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra yesterday for allegedly celebrating Pakistan’s win over India in the ongoing T20 World Cup. Those celebrating Pakistan’s win will be charged with sedition, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s office tweeted this morning. All three are engineering students at the Raja Balwant Singh College […]
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Thu 28 October 2021: Aryan Khan, the son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, has been granted bail after three weeks in jail. He will, however, spend at least another night in prison as his team can apply for his release only after the Bombay High Court’s formal order tomorrow. Aryan Khan, 23, was taken into […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: Mohammad Yaqoob, the acting defense minister in Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration, in his first public appearance on Wednesday called on the private sector to contribute toward strengthening the health sector in the war-ravaged country. Yaqoob is the son of Mullah Omar, the late founder of the Taliban movement who rarely appeared […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: Russia sees the need to step up efforts to offer financial, economic, and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, and believes the UN should serve as a coordinator, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Afghanistan must start from scratch after two decades of the NATO state-building model being imposed on the nation, Russia’s […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: Facebook’s products have turned into a tool for inciting religious hatred in India, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing an internal report. According to a July 2020 report, the social network services in India were awash with inflammatory content that has surged 300% above previous levels since December 2019 when […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: According to the United Nations (UN), around half of Afghanistan’s population is facing one of the world’s worst food crises, both in absolute and relative terms. Richard Trenchard, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) representative in Afghanistan, told media at the UN headquarters here via Zoom that 18.8 million Afghans […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: According to the White House, US President Joe Biden has urged Myanmar’s military to immediately halt its campaign of violence, release all individuals it has wrongfully jailed, and restore the path to democracy. “(Biden) expressed grave concerns about the military coup and horrific violence in Burma (Myanmar) and called on the […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: Aryan Khan was wrongfully arrested though there was “no consumption or possession of drugs” and cases involving such small quantities of drug called for rehab rather than jail, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi argued today in Bombay High Court. Aryan Khan, the 23-year-old son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, will spend […]
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