The Thai caretaker government Tuesday decided to invoke Emergency in Bangkok and some nearby areas for two months to control the ongoing political protests. Deputy Prime Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said the enforcement of the Emergency decree would cover Bangkok and parts of Nonthburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan provinces effective Wednesday, the Bangkok Post reported. […]
India Tuesday evening summoned the acting high commissioner of Pakistan over the stoppage of cross-border trade and bus services by Pakistan in the wake of the arrest of a Pakistani truck driver for alleged drug trafficking. Mansoor Ahmad was summoned Tuesday evening to the Ministry of External Affairs in connection with the recent stoppage of […]
At least 28 people were killed and 45 injured when a suicide bomber hit a bus carrying Shiite muslim pilgrims in Pakistan’s Balochistan province Tuesday, Xinhua reported. The incident occurred as a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the pilgrims’ bus in Dareen Ghar area of Mastung district, local media reported. The bus was […]
Afghanistan’s human rights situation regressed in key areas in 2013, increasing uncertainty about the country’s future, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in its World Report 2014. Government policies on human rights were negatively affected by the end-2014 deadline for the withdrawal of international combat forces and the negotiations over US troop presence after 2014. Human […]
Bangladesh tumbled backward on human rights in 2013 as the government engaged in a harsh crackdown on members of civil society, the media and political opposition, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2014 released Tuesday. The authorities often employed violent and illegal measures against protesters, and failed to initiate any investigations into credible […]
Sri Lanka made little progress in 2013 in accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the civil war that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. As the UN and international condemnation escalated, human rights activists and journalists critical of the government continued to face intimidation and threats, it said in its World […]
More than two months after the Nov 19 elections to Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly, the new lawmakers were Tuesday administered oath by senior-most member Surya Bahadur Thapa. A total 575 lawmakers — elected directly under the first-past-the-post system and selected as per the proportional representative electoral system — took the oath from Thapa, a former […]
Nepal saw new setbacks in efforts to end impunity for perpetrators of wartime abuses over the last year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in its World Report 2014. The newly elected Constituent Assembly should take immediate steps to implement the 2006 peace agreement and to provide justice for victims of serious human rights violations during […]
Pakistan has claimed diplomatic immunity for a truck driver who was arrested last week after his vehicle was found to be carrying over 100 kg of narcotics, an official said. Kashmir Divisional Commissioner Shailender Kumar told reporters here that the authorities at Salamabad trade facilitation centre on the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s […]
At least three Pakistani Taliban militants have been arrested in Bangladesh. According to the law enforcers, they came to reinvigorate the Islamist militant movement here. Two of them, aged between 25 and 50, had a laptop containing manuals on bomb making and operating firearms. They were detained Sunday night in front of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy […]