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A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

Don’t consider yourselves as minorities: Sheikh Hasina reassures Hindus

High Commission in close contact with authorities, India notes Bangladesh government's prompt response to attack on Hindu temples

Pakistan: Bheel family tortured, for fetching drinking water from mosque

Attackers reportedly related to a local Parliamentarian of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, police has not even registered a case 

We do not recognise a Taliban govt: Afghan students in Pune

Afghan students from various Pune colleges came together outside the Savitribai Phule University to voice their dissent against the Taliban and Pakistan

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Whitlock exposes the Secret History of the War in Afghanistan

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‘Taliban Are Unlikely To Reform’

Afghan Women's Greatest Fears May come true even under Taliban 2.0

Indian Muslims and the Allure of Sharia

The Failure to Condemn the Taliban Can Only Mean That the Dream of Establishing Islamic State and Implementing Sharia Is Widely Shared By Indian Muslims

Taliban 2.0: Old laws in newer package?

Better PR skills cannot hide the chaos that continues at Kabul airport, or the firing at Jalalabad where two people were killed and a dozen injured

Undaunted by temple attack, Pakistani Hindu stuck in India, wants to go home

A Pakistani Hindu man, stranded in India with his three children after his wife died in April, is pleading with the authorities to let him return to Pakistan before his country’s Independence Day on August 14

Islamabad: Journalist Asad Ali Toor attacked in his own home

Attack on Toor is yet another distressing reminder of how vulnerable journalists working in South Asia are, especially if they question the government

Manipur: CCM applauds HC order allowing safe passage to Myanmar refugees

The people’s group requested central and state governments to uphold humanitarian rights and obligations

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