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Bangladesh risks repeating Hasina regime’s mistakes: HRW
DHAKA (TIP): Reprisals against journalists and indiscriminate arrests risk undermining Bangladesh‘s once-in-a-generation opportunity to end the legal abuses seen under ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, Human Rights Watch warned on January 28. Hasina fled into exile […]
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Pakistan outlaws disinformation with three-year jail term
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan criminalised online disinformation on January 28, passing legislation that enshrines punishments of up to three years in prison, a decision journalists say is designed to crack down on dissent. The law targets […]
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Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, wife Bushra get prison sentence in al-Qadir Trust case
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistan court on Friday found former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi guilty of corruption in the 190 million pounds al-Qadir Trust case and sentenced them to 14 and […]
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Pakistan’s 2024: Troubled ties with neighbours, economic woes and the Imran Khan ‘problem’
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan was haunted by political uncertainty, economic instability, a deteriorating security situation and troubled relations with neighbours in 2024. But what defined the year were not just these perennial ills but the country’s […]
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Student body wants B’desh’s ‘Mujibist’ constitution buried
Dhaka (TIP): The Anti-Discrimination Students Movement on December 29 announced that it would issue a belated Proclamation of July Uprising that seeks to “bury” Bangladesh’s 1972 constitution, calling it a “Mujibist” charter that had paved […]
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Helicopter makes emergency landing near Kathmandu after being hit by bird
Kathmandu (TIP): A helicopter en route to Kathmandu carrying five US nationals had to make an emergency landing at Banepa, 50 kilometres east of the capital, after it was hit by a bird on December […]
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Afghan forces retaliate, target Pak sites
Kabul (TIP): Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry said on December 28 that its forces hit several points inside Pakistan in retaliation for deadly airstrikes last week. Pakistan on December 24 launched an operation to destroy a training […]
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52 killed in two bus accidents in central Afghanistan
KABUL (TIP): Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed 52 people and injured 65, the Taliban government spokesmen said on December 19. The accidents happened […]
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Pakistan court extends interim bail of Imran Khan, his wife in second Toshakhana case until January 7
Lahore (TIP): A Pakistani court on December 17 extended the interim bail of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the second Toshakhana case until January 7. While the 72-year-old […]
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Women’s rights under threat in Bangladesh amid growing radicalism, intolerance
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh is not going to become another Iran or Afghanistan, as far as the rights of women are concerned. Nevertheless, it’s women who are bearing the brunt of the recent political upheaval in […]
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Pak court indicts Imran, wife Bushra in 2nd Toshakhana case
Islamabad (TIP): A Pakistani court indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on fresh charges of illegally selling state gifts on December 12, local broadcaster Geo reported. The indictment was the latest […]
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Bangladesh summons Kolkata mission head for consultations
Kolkata (TIP): Bangladesh has summoned Shikder Mohammad Ashrafur Rahman, the Acting Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata, for urgent consultations following protests over attacks on Hindu minorities. Rahman, who is also Minister – Political Affairs, stationed […]
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Yunus regime fascist: Hasina vows justice for atrocities
Dhaka (TIP): Bangladesh‘s deposed premier Sheikh Hasina has launched a fierce attack on the interim administration, accusing its Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus of running a “fascist regime” that allows terrorists and fundamentalists to act without […]
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Jalaluddin Haqqani’s brother killed in Kabul suicide blast
Kabul (TIP): The Afghan Taliban’s acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani — the brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of insurgent group Haqqani network — and six other people were killed in an explosion […]
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Imran demands probe into ‘killings’ of party workers
Islamabade (TIP) : Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has demanded the constitution of a Supreme Court-led judicial commission to probe alleged killings of his party workers by law enforcement officers’ “direct firing” in […]
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Protests erupt in Bihar over atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh
Patna (TIP): Processions and protest marches erupted in Bihar on December 5 in support of minority Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists who were being subjected to torture in Bangladesh after the collapse of the Sheikh […]
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Pak sectarian violence: Death toll rises to 130 as clashes continue in Kurram despite ceasefire
Pakhtunkhwa (TIP): The death toll from sectarian violence in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province surged to 130, with at least six people killed and eight injured on December 2, as clashes in the volatile Kurram […]
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Imran supporters suspend protest; 4 die in crackdown
Islamabad (TIP): Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party on November 27 formally suspended its protest here blaming the midnight crackdown by the authorities that left at least four dead and over 50 injured even […]
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