by Rhiannon Ingle in Lad Bible, Sept 29, 2023 at 10:19 hrs BST A British woman has been trapped in Sri Lanka for 13 months and is now left ‘out of hope’. Kayleigh Fraser, 35, from St Andrews, was visiting the country to study botanical medicine and began sharing videos online of the ‘Aragalaya’ (‘Struggle’ in Sinhalese) protests. Fraser, who had been living abroad for over a year, had her home on the South Asian…
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report in The News, Sept 18, 2023PESHAWAR: The law-enforcement agencies gunned down two Taliban militants in an intelligence-based operation in the Swat Valley on September 7. The officials said the two militants were reportedly involved in whipping a woman in Charbagh town in Swat in 2009. According to security officials, the Pakistan Army and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) jointly conducted the operation in the Fizagat area of Mingora. They said the militants belonging to the outlawed…
AFP report in The Express tribune, Sept17, 2023KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have arrested at least 18 staff of an international NGO, including an American woman, accusing them of carrying out Christian missionary work, the country’s leaders said Saturday. The International Assistance Mission (IAM) confirmed its staffers were picked up from its office in Ghor province, central Afghanistan, and taken to the capital Kabul. Security and intelligence forces had been observing the group for some time,…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press, July 12, 2023Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that four people including a woman were publicly flogged for allegedly accused of committing “immorality” in the Paghman district of Kabul city. According to a news release, these people were arrested from the Kargha area of Kabul, adding the Taliban officials sentenced the convicts to three months imprisonment. Taliban’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, July 12, in a press release stated that…
by Anish Tiwari in The Kathmandu Post, June 28, 2023Sangdo Maya Hyolmo, a 43-year-old woman from Hyolmo Tole in ward 1 of Helambu Rural Municipality, lost her house to the floods that wreaked havoc in the rural municipality two years ago. Hyolmo has since been living in a temporary shed at Ghyangual in the same ward. According to Hyolmo, there are around 200 displaced people like her living in temporary shelters in Ghyangual. “Those who…
Report in The News, June 25, 2023TURBAT: One policeman was martyred and a woman constable sustained injuries in a suicide blast in the Turbat district of Balochistan, Geo News reported quoting a senior official on Saturday. The deputy commissioner of Kech district said the woman suicide bomber blew herself up on Commissioner Road in the city. A vehicle of security forces was also damaged in the explosion, he added. Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo…
report in The News, Mar 3, 2023An anti-terrorism court has indicted three alleged facilitators of an IED blast that had killed a woman and injured 11 others, including policemen, in Karachi’s Kharadar area in May last year. The ATC-XVI judge read out charges against three suspects — Dilbar Ali, Abdul Qayyum and Abdul Sattar — said to be associated with the outlawed Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA). They pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the…