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Indian Kashmir Gunbattles Killed 47 People in November, Authorities Say0
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- November 30, 2018
By Mohammad Amin Pirzada on Nov 30, 2018 November marked the bloodiest month to date in 2018 in Indian Kashmir with at least 47 people killed, including 37 militants, as security forces stepped up an offensive in the disputed Himalayan region, police said Friday. Among the suspected rebels killed was Naveed Jat, 22, a top member of
Kartarpur 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
Taliban Infighting Leaves Dozens Of Militants Dead In Afghanistan0
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- November 30, 2018
Taliban Infighting Leaves Dozens Of Militants Dead In Afghanistan November 30, 2018 By RFE/RL Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada Afghan officials say clashes between two Taliban factions have killed dozens of militants in the country’s west, underlying divisions in the militant group that has waged a deadly 17-year insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul. Jilani Farhad,
Book review: China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth0
Hugh Peyman World Scientific 2018 978-981-3231-99-3 A review by Humphrey Hawksley LONDON: Hugh Peyman makes a timely argument about how other countries could learn from the rise of China in his book China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth. To absorb the argument fully, however, readers must shelve one premise that has long been part of
Sheikh Hasina: A Portrait of Power0
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- November 29, 2018
BenarNews staff Washington 2018-11-29 Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives at Buckingham Palace in London, April 19, 2018. AP As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina aims to secure a fourth term in upcoming general elections, cinemas across Bangladesh are running a soft-touch biopic of her life, depicting her rise from martyr’s daughter to “mother of humanity.”
US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan0
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- November 29, 2018
By Oscar Grenfell 29 November 2018 Local officials and residents have confirmed that US airstrikes on Tuesday night killed at least 30 civilians in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. These tragic deaths are the latest war crime in the 17-year US-NATO occupation, aimed at subjugating the geo-strategically critical nation to the dictates of the US and
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Nuclear energy; Saudi Arabia’s coming Washington battle0
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- November 26, 2018
By James M. Dorsey 26 November 2018 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. When Saudi General Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz went shopping in the late 1980s for Chinese medium-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear, chemical or biological warheads he made no bones about keeping
China reaching deeper and deeper into Nepal0
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- November 26, 2018
A planned Himalayan railway connecting China to Nepal will give the landlocked latter nation a vital new trade route but also stir security concerns in neighboring India By Bertil Lintner New Delhi, November 26, 2018 Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli (R) reviews a military honor guard with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great
Chinese consulate attack puts Pakistan between a rock and a hard place0
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- November 23, 2018
Dawn.com By James M. Dorsey 23 November 2018 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. Two attacks in Pakistan, including a brazen assault on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, are likely to complicate prime minister Imran Khan’s efforts to renegotiate China’s massive, controversial Belt and Road investments
A Research Project on People with Disability (PwD) and their economic and social empowerment: the case of Bangladesh0
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- November 23, 2018
Debashis Sarker 23 November 2018 According to World Health Organization (2011), fifteen percent of the world’s population are estimated to have some form of disability. Over the years the number of People with Disability (PwD) is rising due to several factors including an aging population, chronic health issues, accidents and war. A large
2018 Bangladesh General Election: An invitation to furthering volatility?0
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- November 23, 2018
by M Adil Khan — November 23, 2018 The 2018 Bangladesh General Election scheduled on December 30, 2018 marks the end of two consecutive terms of the ruling Awami League (AL), first ever by any political party since 1991, the year when parliamentary
Second Round of Talks between U.S. and Taliban concludes without an agreement0
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- November 19, 2018
by Ahmad Shah Katawazai 19 November 2018 Second Round of Talks between U.S. and Taliban concludes without an agreement Second round of meeting between the Taliban and the U.S. special envoy for Afghan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad ended without any agreement. Earlier there were reports that the U.S. government is considering postponement of the Afghan presidential
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2018 Bangladesh General Election: A Time for Stock-taking and Pondering the Stakes
By Adil Khan and Habib Zafarullah* 4 December 2018 The 2018 Bangladesh General Election scheduled on December 30, 2018 marks the end of two consecutive terms of the ruling Awami League (AL), first ever by any political party since 1991, the year a combined opposition movement against a decade long dictatorship resurrected and re-introduced
Arihant First Successful Deterrent Petrol: Dawn of new era or Nothing New but a Hyped Political Statement
By: Ahyousha Khan 27 November 2018 Few days ago on the successful completion of the first deterrence petrol of Arihant, which is SSBN (ship submersible ballistic missile nuclear powered) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave statement that now India possesses “credible nuclear deterrence”. There is no doubt that with INS Arihant, India now possess