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Scrutinising US Indo-Pacific Strategy

By thehighasia
September 11, 2022
in :  China, Conflict, New, Opinion, Politics, US
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Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue

By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting China in the Asian-Pacific region, the United States announced the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022. The strategy has set up some ambiguous yet interesting objectives for the Indo-Pacific region, which was a battleground for the US-China economic and strategic competition lately and has now become …

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Tajik authorities intensify crackdown on Pamiris

By thehighasia
September 10, 2022
in :  Central Asia, Conflict, Democracy, extremism, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Latest, Pamir Ranges, Politics, Resistance, Tajikistan
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Clampdown on Pamiris

Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili ethnic group. About 100 detainees, including seven journalists, are awaiting trial. Authorities in Tajikistan have forced the closure of two religious bodies in the capital Dushanbe within a succession of a week, according to media reports. The institutions are the …

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Three TTP commanders killed in Kabul blast

By thehighasia
August 8, 2022
in :  Afghanistan, Conflict, extremism, Pakistan, Terrorism
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Three TTP commanders killed

News Desk Three senior commanders of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed reportedly in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan, dealing a heavy blow to the militant group, wrote Daud Khattak, the Managing Editor of Radio Mashaal on Sunday (Aug 7). One of the commanders was Abdul Wali alias Omar Khalid Khorasani, who was considered to have been one of …

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Tajikistan puts squeeze on AKDN entities in GBAO

By thehighasia
July 29, 2022
in :  Central Asia, Conflict, Education, High Asia Region, Pamir Ranges, Philanthropy, Tajikistan
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AKDN in Tajikistan

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’

By thehighasia
July 11, 2022
in :  Climate Change, Conflict, Culture, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Europe, extremism, History, Nationalism, People, Politics, Race, Society, Taliban, US, World
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Interview

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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The dangerous populist science of Harari

By thehighasia
July 11, 2022
in :  Conflict, History, Literature, Opinion, Philosophy, Science & Technology, Theory, World
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Science and History

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

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Influential figure killed in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region

By thehighasia
May 29, 2022
in :  Conflict, High Asia Region, Tajikistan
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By news desk Police in Tajikistan have said that “leader of an organized criminal group,” has been killed as a “result of internal clashes between criminal groups” in the country’s restive Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. Mahmadboqir Mahmadboqirov was believed to be one of the influential yet informal leaders of the autonomous oblast. He was said to have been killed on May …

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Afghanistan: New Great Game in the heart of Asia

By thehighasia
December 30, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, Conflict, High Asia Region, Kyrgyzstan, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, Tajikistan, Taliban, Uzbekistan, World
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New-Great-Game

Regional powers are seeking to fill the vacuum left by the abrupt departure of the US and its Western allies.

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A world without hunger

By thehighasia
November 3, 2021
in :  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conflict, Development, Human Rights, Politics, Revolution, Slider, World
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Hunger

There is nothing more obscene than the existence of hunger, the terrible indignity of working hard but being without the means for sustenance.

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Why Tajikistan is taking a stand against the Taliban

By thehighasia
October 27, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Central Asia, Conflict, Opinion, Slider, Tajikistan, Taliban
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Takjikistan Stance on Talibanan

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

By thehighasia
October 8, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Conflict, High Asia Region, Latest, Resistance, Slider, Tajikistan
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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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Making Gilgit-Baltistan fifth province

By thehighasia
September 19, 2021
in :  Conflict, Gilgit-Baltistan, India, Kashmir, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, Slider
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Fifth Province

The matter of granting provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan involves a contested political process with multifarious implications to the interests of stakeholders

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For Afghan students, new orders cut contact between peers

By thehighasia
September 7, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Conflict, Education, extremism, Politics, Religion, Slider, Society, Women
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Taliban dress code

The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, marked on August 15, has prompted a sequence of pushbacks on the rights and regular movements of citizens, especially women who, as they anticipated, are facing multiple threats to political representation, education and public work.

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A war of liberation for Afghan women?

By thehighasia
August 27, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Conflict, extremism, Features, Human Rights, Latest, Opinion, Slider, Society, Women
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The euphemism of “collateral damage” encompassed bombing raids and cruise missile assassination strikes that killed civilians, meaning women and girls as well as men and boys. Berry quotes one critic of the war who argued that the alleged concern for women put a “feminist glow on some of the most brutal bombings.

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Afghan envoy says hold-out Panjshir province can resist Taliban rule

By thehighasia
August 19, 2021
in :  Afghanistan, Conflict, High Asia Region, Opinion, Politics
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Ambassador Zahir Aghbar

DUSHANBE, Aug 18:  The Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan on Wednesday rejected Taliban rule of his country and said Panjshir province, north of Kabul, would serve as a stronghold for resistance led by self-proclaimed acting president Amrullah Saleh. Afghan First Vice-President Saleh said on Tuesday he was the “legitimate caretaker president” of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country as …

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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