Taiwan : President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan responded to Pope Francis’ World Day of Peace message saying that her country will stand firmly with the Vatican’s commitment to issues such as nuclear weapons abolition and finding solutions to environmental destruction. As per tradition, Taiwan’s president responded to the pope’s New Year message which was this […]
LAHORE: What is this ‘honour’ that pushes a mother to commit the dastardly deed of setting fire to her 16 year old daughter? Civilized society grapples with these horrendous killings, but the beat goes on. Who will stop the rain? More death sentences? A mother who murdered her own daughter and set her alight for […]
Kathmandu: Will the plains-hills dilemma in Nepal be resolved? Nepal’s Opposition leader and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli refused to let the Constitution Amendment Bill pass in the Parliament.(Jan 9), The Bill, aimed at addressing the demands of agitating ‘Madhesi’ (plainsmen of Indian (Bihari, UP) origin parties. Talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport in […]
India isn’t the only country that faces protests over China’s activities in the geopolitical arena. This week there were reports of Several people injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and industrial zone.(5 Jan) The locals were protesting their eviction to accommodate an industrial zone for Chinese […]
Are we reading too much into the involvement of women in terrorist acts in Bangladesh? This by no means is a new spectacle. The so called weaker sex has always been a part of terror ever since the phenomenon was exploited to create psychological and physical havoc on the target, be it the state or […]
Kabul: The head of the Sikh community in Afghanistan’s restive Kunduz city was shot dead by unknown gunmen (Dec 29), the second such incident within three months, triggering fear among the minority group members. Lala Del Souz was gunned down at about 9am in the Haji Gulistan Kochi Haman area of the city, Tolo News […]
Tibet will soon become a powerful Mineral Water (bottled water) supplier, says a report dated Dec 28. For the first time, China today started transporting bottled water to other parts of the country by charter trains from the Himalayan rivers in Tibet, known for its rich water resources. A train full of Tibetan bottled water […]
An estimated 1,000 young Christian and Hindu girls, most of them underage and impoverished, are taken from their homes each year, converted to Islam and married, according to a report by the NGO South Asia Partnership. More than two million Pakistanis live as “modern slaves”, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index, which ranks Pakistan […]
COLOMBO : “Holy Mother of G…!”, no doubt a similar expression ran through the minds of the organisers of the Catholic Church’s ‘Joy to the World’ festival. In a Christmas debacle, Sri Lanka’s Catholic church withdrew hymn sheets after lyrics of “Hail Mary” were mixed up with an expletive-packed version by rapper Tupac Shakur, a […]
LAHORE: Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s philosophy resonated in a conference in Pakistan this week, says this article in a Pakistani newspaper. Ideas and philosophies for the betterment of society are abundant but the real issue is their implementation, said Evacuee Trust Property Board chairman Siddiq al Farooq on Thursday. He was speaking at the 9th international […]
The People’s Republic of China is hopping mad because of HH DalaiLlama hobnobbing with the President, and they’re kicking up an unholy row. Now, China routinely issues ‘we’re very annoyed’ statements whenever His Holiness calls upon some world leader or the other. But now, things are taking an ugly turn. On December 16, China took […]
Dhaka: Bangladesh paid homage to the intellectuals martyred in the 1971 liberation war as President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led thousands in paying their respects in the capital (December 14). Army bugles played the ‘Last Post’ as Hamid and Hasina stood in solemn silence in a state ceremony at the Martyred Intellectuals […]
