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Contained within Manav Kaul’s slim novel of about 200 pages are many stories.In Under the Night Jasmine, translated from the Hindi by Vaibhav Sharma, narrator-writer Rohit wakes up night after night at 3 am, struggling to write amid the early days of the pandemic. In the story Rohit writes, ...

While the UN report found that al-Qaeda lacks the capability for a large-scale attack, it still harbours global ambitions and is rebuilding its strength in Afghanistan.Al Qaeda’s re-emergence is a big concern globally. Under the leadership of Osama bin Laden, the group used Afghanistan as a base during the ...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday urged all not to treat the human rights issue in isolation and sought “equal attention” to nursing the natural environment, lamenting that mother nature has been “deeply wounded” by human indiscretions. Addressing a gathering at the biennial conference of national human rights ...

Since then, as international funding has stalled amid skepticism about the Taliban’s return, the UN has been acting as the world’s "eyes and ears" in Afghanistan. After shifting mainly to humanitarian work, UN agencies and partners are finding ways to help the long-suffering population meet basic needs and preserve ...

New Delhi: 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh, who was arrested by the Punjab Police on Sunday and later sent to Assam's Dibrugarh jail will be interrogated by Central intelligence, reported news agency ANI.   The self-styled preacher was evading Punjab Police since March 18. Nine of Amritpal's aides who were ...

Source link www.rferl.org Sahib Khan, a political activist, is one of the organizers of a recent sit-in protest in Wana, a remote town near Pakistan's western border with Afghanistan. Khan describes the weeklong demonstration that ended on January 12 as a "people's uprising" to show authorities that they will ...

For the 37,000 inhabitants of the Gurez Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir, winter is a time to get out or hunker down. Nestled high in the Himalayas, the valley has only one road link to the outside world and that is closed by deep snow for almost six months of ...

Islamabad —  The United States is exploring additional measures to be imposed on Afghanistan’s Taliban to further isolate them for their “appallingly bad” decision to suspend girls’ education, according to a senior American diplomat.Karen Decker, the head of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the South Asian country, issued the ...

Russia, China and other non-Western powers are making diplomatic overtures to Afghanistan's Taliban-led government as the U.S. continues to stonewall the hardline Islamist group a year after it forcefully seized control of the country.In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Taliban retaking Afghanistan, Russia and China have ...

Hours after an American drone strike killed the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, in downtown Kabul, Taliban security forces rushed to seal off the site. Green tarps were thrown over destroyed windows. Checkpoints were put up, and shops were closed.But there was no hiding the damage that had ...