Category: Asia

Thu 01 August 2019: India is pitching a Hindu pilgrimage to a snowy cave shrine in disputed, Muslim-majority Kashmir as evidence of peace in a state marred by decades of armed conflict amid popular resistance to Indian rule. The annual yatra, or spiritual journey, to the Amarnath shrine, the hallowed mountain cave where devotees revere […]

File Photo Wed 31 July 2019: Indonesian clerical body official has yet to confirm exact date, location of meeting set for August A Taliban delegation on Tuesday met Indonesian clerics to discuss an upcoming trilateral meeting with Afghan and Pakistani clerics in August, Indonesia’s clerical body confirmed. Yunahar Ilyas, vice chair of the Indonesian Ulama […]

Tue 30 July 2019: The second phase of talks between a high-level delegation from Myanmar and Rohingya representatives ended in Bangladesh with a deadlock on citizenship rights.  “They [Myanmar government] have still not agreed to amend the controversial 1982 Citizenship Law to provide citizenship rights to Rohingya and they want us to return as new […]

Tue 30 July 2019: Turkey will send an observation delegation to China’s Xinjiang region, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Tuesday after discussing the situation of Uyghur Turks with his Chinese counterpart. Many refer to China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region — home to many ethnic minorities, including the Turkic Uyghur people — as East Turkestan. Uyghurs, […]

Mon 29 July 2019: At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice-presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh’s office, the government said in a statement on Monday. The attack on the office of President Ashraf Ghani’s pick for vice president in the […]

Sun 28 July 2019: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh refuse to return to Myanmar unless they are recognised as an ethnic group in their home country, leaders told visiting Myanmar officials on Sunday as fresh repatriation talks started. A campaign by Myanmar’s military in response to insurgent attacks in 2017 drove 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee […]

Pakistani authorities found and seized a drone in Chaghi district of southwestern province of Balochistan on July 19, 2019. (Balochistan levies) Sat 27 July 2019: A foreign drone was seized from Pakistan’s Chaghi district bordering Iran and Afghanistan, confirmed an official while talking to Arab News on Friday, fueling speculation among security analysts and drone […]

Nepalese army personnel in Kathmandu. Photo: Xinhua Fri 26 July 2019: At least 67 people were injured, 41 others still missing as heavy rains triggered landslides, floods this week The death toll from floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in Nepal rose to 111, with 41 others still missing, a home ministry official said […]

Thu 25 July 2019: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has dismissed criticism of his ‘begging’ while visiting the US, saying he ‘never bowed down to anyone,’ and likened his triumphant homecoming to “winning the World Cup.” The premier arrived home after a three-day trip to the United States where he met Donald Trump. The goal […]