Category: Asia

Wed 04 March 2020: The Ministry of National Food Security and Research and provincial agricultural departments have decided to strengthen the national action plan to combat locust attacks in all the four provinces. In a related development, a Chinese technical team is visiting Pakistan to assess the situation. It reviewed the situation of locust-affected districts […]

Tue 03 March 2020: The sequence of events that led to Faizan’s death suggests some members of the Delhi Police actively participated in the communal riots. Faizan, the 23-year-old Muslim man who was filmed as he was brutally assaulted by policemen who forced him to sing the national anthem between beatings, died after the Delhi Police […]

Mon 02 March 2020: Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday called for an urgent parliament sitting to contest the appointment of a Muhyiddin Yassin as the country’s next prime minister. Fears are growing that a new Malay-majority coalition could emerge, further spliting the nation, following the collapse of Mahathir Mohamad’s multiracial reformist alliance. Muhyiddin Yassin, a […]

Sun 01 March 2020: Pakistan’s prime minister on Saturday urged the international community to intervene and stop the ongoing “carnage of Muslims” in India. In a statement posted on Twitter, Imran Khan said India’s “state-sponsored terror” could lead to radicalization of 200 million Indian Muslims. At least 42 people, mostly Muslims, were killed and over […]

Sat 29 February 2020: Thousands of people on Friday took to streets across Bangladesh, most saliently in capital Dhaka and Sylhet, protesting against the deadly violence in Delhi that killed so far 42 people. The protesters called on the prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s government not to allow Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to visit Bangladesh […]

Fri 28 February 2020: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday invoked the “spirit of Gandhi” to ask for community reconciliation in Delhi that has been wracked by communal violence, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “Throughout his life, the Secretary General has been deeply inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and today the […]

Tue 25 February 2020: Mohammad Akhter Hossain, a young Rohingya man, was sitting in front of a shanty in a sprawling refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, a district in southern Bangladesh. He stared out aimlessly, his eyes searching for what remains an unknown future. Hossain, 32, was soon whisked away by a few other Rohingya […]

Mon 24 February 2020: Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tendered his resignation to Malaysia’s king Monday while his political party quit the ruling alliance in a shocking political upheaval less than two years after his election victory. The prime minister’s office said in a brief statement that Mahathir submitted his resignation to the palace at 1 […]

Sat 22 February 2020: (AFP) US President Donald Trump will open the world’s biggest cricket stadium and watch the sun set at the famed Taj Mahal during a lightning visit to India starting Monday, but behind the spectacular optics he is expected to face a protectionist counter-punch on trade. Trump’s blossoming bromance with Prime Minister […]