An alternative to Gilgit-Baltistan’s controversial land reform bill
Herald Special Recently, the Gilgit-Baltistan Cabinet approved the controversial Land Reform Bill 2024, sparking widespread criticism from opposition political parties,
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The Anti-Colonial Marxism of Mahdi Amel
The Lebanese Marxist thinker Mahdi Amel was assassinated on this day in 1987. Amel developed a version of Marxism that was grounded in the experience of colonized societies, showing how class struggle converges with the fight for national liberation.
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Gaza genocide: students will not tolerate hypocrisy
Who knows where the refusals of students in the Global North today will go. The students’ refusal to acknowledge the excuses of their ruling class and accept its policies are dug deeper into their soil than their tents.
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Afghan women protest Taliban recognition
Around 25 women marched through a residential area in the Afghan capital on Saturday ahead of a summit in Doha.
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Ban on women: Taliban in a standoff with UN
The UN has asked all its staff to remain at home after the Taliban banned Afghan women from working for the world body. Hundreds of Afghan women employed by the UN are critical in delivering life-saving aid in Afghanistan, where millions are at risk of starvation.
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UN concerned about situation in Tajik region
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the Tajik government “strictly observe its obligations to respect and protect people’s rights to life, and freedom of assembly and the media in any military or law enforcement operations in Tajikistan’s autonomous region.
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Scrutinising US Indo-Pacific Strategy
By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting China in the Asian-Pacific region,
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Tajik authorities intensify crackdown on Pamiris
Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili
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Three TTP commanders killed in Kabul blast
News Desk Three senior commanders of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed reportedly in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan,
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Tajikistan puts squeeze on AKDN entities in GBAO
Authorities in Tajikistan are putting the squeeze on the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) organizations and companies.
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Race, culture, terrorism and ‘deep structures’
Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.
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Influential figure killed in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region
By news desk Police in Tajikistan have said that “leader of an organized criminal group,” has been killed as a
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Afghanistan: New Great Game in the heart of Asia
Regional powers are seeking to fill the vacuum left by the abrupt departure of the US and its Western allies.
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Why Tajikistan is taking a stand against the Taliban
Tajikistan has no intention of getting into a direct confrontation with the Taliban. Rather, by taking a few more risks than its neighbours, the Tajik leadership is counting on boosting its popularity, both at home and abroad.
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Afghan pilots tell of daring escape from Taliban, and of life in limbo in Tajikistan
The group, which includes two female military pilots, said they do not want to remain in Tajikistan and hope to resettle in the United States
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