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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Conflict
Making Gilgit-Baltistan 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
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?
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
DUSHANBE, Aug 18: The Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan on Wednesday rejected Taliban rule of his country and said Panjshir province,
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Land struggles
Pakistan, where land developers of all stripes are facilitated by all mainstream political parties and the judiciary. Where sitting provincial and federal governments go to great lengths to point out how this rampant conversion of people’s livelihoods and shelter for profits of the few is a central plank of their development strategy. Where the laundered proceeds of real estate development are given safe passage and an ‘agreeable adjustment’, and where those resisting this injustice like activists of the Awami Workers Party, the Sindhi rights movements, and the farmers’ movements in Lahore and Sheikhupura, are subjected to repression, imprisonment, and coercion.
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Palestinian issue: It’s time for Israelis and Palestinians to rethink
The only solutions to the Palestinian issue, is to establish a secular democratic state where Muslims, Jews and Christians co-exist with harmony as equal citizens. Only this single state narrative can serve as a guarantee to shun any move to divide the society on a religious, ethnic, or racial basis.
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Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict: solving water puzzle key to preventing fresh fighting
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan may be inching closer than ever to hashing out a border delimitation deal that will end decades of territorial ambiguity.
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Panelists for sustained peace in Gaza, lifting of Israeli seige
Diplomats, writers and journalists at a Webinar on Friday described the fresh Israeli attack on Gaza yet another genocide of Palestinians and part of its colonial expansionism. They called on the international community to intervene and rush humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza who have been traumatized, bruised and displaced.
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Politics of the Kyrgyz mining sector
The mining sector of the Kyrgyz Republic has been attracting a lot of diverse investments even despite frequent conflicts and
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Will Pamir Kyrgyz nomads leave Wakhan Corridor?
Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan
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Tajik-Kyrgyz border clashes: thousands evacuated
At least 43 people were killed and thousands evacuated amid border clashes between Kyrgyz and Tajik forces on April 28-29.
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Kyrgyz-Tajik border clashes: dozens dead, many homes burned to ashes
Sporadic shooting continued throughout the day on April 30 on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as a clearer picture emerged of the destruction wrought by the worst battle the two Central Asian states have fought since gaining independence.
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Political parties, lawyers support PFUJ long march
Political parties and lawyers have expressed their resolve to fight for the freedom of the press, expression guaranteed in the Constitution. They called for an end to muffling of the freedom of media and expression, repressive censorship, press advice, retrenchments of journalists and media workers, payment of salaries, the abolition of the unjust and discriminatory advertisement policy of the federal government and implementation of the 8th Wage Board Award.
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From Silk Road to Belt and Road
A research paper published recently by Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI), University of Central Asia, highlights the social, economic, and
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