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Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it0
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- August 20, 2019
BBC News 20 August 2019 Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan have fought two wars and a limited conflict over Kashmir. But why do they dispute the territory – and how did it start? How old is this fight? Kashmir is an ethnically diverse Himalayan region, covering around 86,000 sq miles (138 sq km), and famed
READ MOREArticle 370: Has India pushed Kashmir to a point of no return?0
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- August 13, 2019
BBC News 13 August Indian-administered Kashmir has been under an unprecedented lockdown since last week after India revoked Article 370, a constitutional provision granting the region special status. Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at the London School of Economics (LSE), explains why the decision is fraught with challenges. At the end of
READ MORENew leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’0
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- July 14, 2019
BBC News 14 July 2019 Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK’s former ambassador to the US. Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday. It says the memo was written after the
READ MORECricket World Cup: Bangladesh beat South Africa by 21 runs0
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- June 2, 2019
By Matthew Henry 2 June 2019 BBC Sport ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, The Oval Bangladesh 330-6 (50 overs): Mushfiqur 78, Shakib 75 South Africa 309-8 (50 overs): Du Plessis 62, Mustafizur 3-67 Bangladesh won by 21 runs Scorecard; Table; Schedule Bangladesh stunned South Africa to start their World Cup campaign with a fine 21-run
READ MOREAnalysis: China’s growing military ambition in Pakistan0
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- March 10, 2019
By BBC Monitoring 10 March 2019 China’s much-discussed economic project in Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a part of Beijing’s ambitious trading network called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – is believed to be taking a “military turn”, with speculation that military cooperation has been outlined as part of the project. The speculation stems from a report
READ MORERakbar Khan: Did cow vigilantes lynch a Muslim farmer?0
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- February 24, 2019
BBC News 23 February 2019 A Muslim dairy farmer was stopped late one night last July as he led two cows down a track in rural Rajasthan, south of the Indian capital, Delhi. Within hours he was dead, but who killed him, asks the BBC’s James Clayton – the “cow vigilantes” he met on the
READ MOREBangladesh election: PM Sheikh Hasina wins landslide in disputed vote0
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- December 31, 2018
31 December 2018 BBC For the video CLICK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her third consecutive term with a landslide victory, Bangladesh’s Election Commission said on Monday. Her ruling party and its allies have won 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats contested, surpassing its previous election wins. The opposition has condemned the vote as
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India’s ‘surgical strikes’ in Kashmir: Truth or illusion?0
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- December 2, 2018
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Pakistani-administered Kashmir 23 October 2016 Image copyright AP Image caption India’s army said its forces attacked on 29 September – but gave few details India made headlines in late September after carrying out “surgical strikes” on militants across the de-facto border in disputed Kashmir. Days earlier insurgents had attacked
READ MOREKartarpur corridor: A road to peace between India and Pakistan?0
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- November 30, 2018
Kartarpur corridor: A road to peace between India and Pakistan? By Secunder Kermani BBC News, Kartarpur 29 November 2018 Image caption Gurcharan Singh welcomes the opportunity to unite Indians and Pakistanis Seventy-five-year-old Gurcharan Singh was just a child during Partition in 1947, when his family left their home in the city of Sialkot, in
READ MOREXinjiang official defends ‘education centres’ for Uighur Muslims0
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- October 17, 2018
16 October 2018 The top official in China’s Xinjiang region has given the most detailed description yet of the alleged use of internment camps for Uighur Muslims. In an interview with state media, Shohrat Zakir said the “vocational education” centres were proving effective in staving off terrorism. He said “trainees” were grateful for the opportunity
READ MOREBangladesh to hang 19 for deadly attack on 2004 rally0
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- October 10, 2018
BBC 10.10.18 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGE Image captionMore than 20 people died and hundreds were injured in the attack A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 19 people to death for their role in a deadly grenade attack on a 2004 political rally in the capital Dhaka. Those to hang include a former minister and deputy minister,
READ MOREIndia Assam: ‘I won’t die before I prove my Indian citizenship0
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- October 7, 2018
3 September 2018 Image caption(L-R) Suchandra Goswami, Chandradhar Das and Ajit Das have all spent time in a detention camp Some 1,000 people have been sent to detention centres in India’s north-eastern state of Assam after being declared illegal citizens. BBC Hindi’s Nitin Srivastava reports on what life has been like for some of them.
READ MOREShahidul Alam: Jailed journalist’s powerful photos of Bangladesh0
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- August 19, 2018
15 August 2018 Image copyrightEPA Renowned Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam has been jailed in the wake of mass demonstrations by young people earlier this month. He took his camera into the streets to document the fury of thousands of students fed up with unsafe roads after two children were killed by a speeding
READ MOREBangladesh protests: How dangerous are the roads?0
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- August 8, 2018
By Reality Check teamBBC News 7 August 2018 Image copyrightAFPImage captionProtests went on for several days after two students were killed by a bus Bangladesh has been gripped by protests since two children were killed by a speeding bus in Dhaka on 29 July. The news spread quickly via social media and the capital has seen
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