The acting head of the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan told the Taliban administration’s acting economy minister to reverse a decision to ban female NGO workers during a meeting, according to a statement on Monday.
Nepal’s ruling five-party alliance virtually broke on Sunday after Prime Minister and Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-MC chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” failed to reach a power-sharing deal. Deuba rejected Prachanda’s bid to become the Prime Minister in the first half of the five-year term. Deuba and Prachanda had earlier reached a …
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Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday appointed CPN-Maoist Centre chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ as the new Prime Minister.
Despite initially promising to respect the rights of women and minorities, the Taliban have widely implemented their interpretation of Islamic law since they seized power in Afghanistan last year, and have all but erased women from public and educational life.
A court in Maldives on Sunday found a former president guilty of money laundering and accepting a bribe and sentenced him to 11 years in prison. The Criminal Court of Maldives also ordered Abdulla Yameen to pay a fine of $5 million. The court found Yameen guilty of accepting money for leasing an island owned …
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CPN-Maoist Centre chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” was on Sunday appointed Nepal’s new PM, after the former guerrilla leader dramatically broke away from the five-party ruling alliance led by the Nepali Congress, ending the political uncertainty after last month’s general elections failed to produce a clear winner. The development may not bode well for India-Nepal …
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has defended its recent decision to ban women from universities, stating that the institutions were allowing genders to “mix freely” and subjects were being taught that “violated the principles of Islam”. “Some science subjects are not suitable for women and some other courses do not match the dignity and honour …
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was set to be released from prison on Friday, jail authorities and his lawyer said. Sobhraj, 78, whose life was chronicled in the successful Netflix/BBC series “The Serpent”, was due to be deported to France within 15 days, …
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Notorious serial killer Charles Sobhraj was released from a jail in Nepal on Friday, following an order from the country’s Supreme Court earlier this week. Sobhraj (78) served more than 18 years in prison after being convicted for the murder of two American tourists in 1975. He was released on grounds of advanced age and …
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Taliban scholars in Afghanistan have employed one of the most extreme interpretations of the sharia code, including capital and corporal punishments little used by most modern Muslim states.
Women were banned Tuesday from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday, the latest edict cracking down on their rights and freedoms.
Rahimullah Nadeem, a spokesman for Kabul University, confirmed that classes for female students had stopped. He said some women were allowed to enter the campus for paperwork. Despite initially promising a more moderate rule respecting rights for women’s and minorities, the Taliban have widely implemented their strict interpretation of Islamic law since they seized power …
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A Nepal court has ordered the release of serial killer Charles Sobhraj. This comes nearly a year after the country’s Supreme Court issued a showcause notice to the government asking why Sobhraj (78), serving life imprisonment in a murder case, should not be released after spending 18 years in prison. Shobhraj’s lawyers had appealed for …
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Labourer Rasool Badshah has moved into a new home six months after a deadly earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan, but without his mother, who was killed by collapsing walls.
China’s embassy in Manila accused the United States on Tuesday of driving a wedge between the Philippines and Beijing, deploring Washington’s “unfounded accusations” that it said sought to stir up trouble in the South China Sea.
The Salang Tunnel, which is around 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It is a key link between the country’s north and south.
At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital Kabul, a local official said on Sunday. According to Said Himatullah Shamim, a spokesman for Parwan province, survivors remain trapped under rubble and that the number of casualties could rise.
In its postwar, American-authored constitution, Japan gave up the right to wage war and means to do so. But contemporary geo-political developments are forcing Tokyo to rethink this policy. The primary factors- an aggressive China almost next door, and the “precedent” Russia has set through its Ukraine invasion.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe had called Tuesday’s All Party Conference in a bid to arrive at a consensus on the Tamil minority’s demand for political autonomy. He had said he was keen to announce a settlement of the issue by February 4 of next year.
Two armed members of the Islamic State-Khorasan, a local affiliate of the militant group operating in the Middle East, detonated explosive devices inside the Kabul Longan Hotel in a posh district of the Afghan capital Monday. The group claimed the suicide attack killed or wounded at least 30 people, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
Counter-terrorism officers arrested Jamaat-e-Islami party emir Shafiqur Rahman in Dhaka, metropolitan police spokesman Faruq Ahmed said, without elaborating on the charges.