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Pakistan: New Price Tags on Stranded NATO Supplies

Thursday, January 12, 2012

From a distance, the neatly stacked red, blue and orange containers suggest that business is good at Karachi’s Kemari port.

U.S.: A Decade in the Purgatory Called Guantanamo

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Hundreds of protesters, dozens outfitted in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, took to the streets outside the White House on Wednesday to demonstrate against torture and indefinite detention on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Pakistan: Girls Defuse This Taliban Bomb

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Suicide bombing is down, bomb attacks are fewer, but the Taliban are keeping up attacks on girls’ schools. In retaliation, a growing number of girls are going for school education — without school buildings.

Nigeria On Edge Trying To Avert North-South Clashes

Monday, January 02, 2012

Africa’s top oil producer is on edge, poised to deter possible sectarian clashes between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south, while Christians are becoming more vulnerable to attacks from Islamist militants.

Defence Act Affirms Indefinite Detention Of U.S. Citizens

Friday, December 30, 2011

Civil liberties groups and many citizen activists are outraged over language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) that appears to lay the legal groundwork for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without trial.

Afghanistan: Killing Heroin With Saffron

Friday, December 30, 2011

Weaning Afghanistan’s poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of the world’s illicit heroin has never been easy, but Kashmir’s saffron cultivators may have the answer.

Argentina: Anti-Terrorism Law Upsets Harmony Between Government and Activists

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Human rights groups and legal experts are concerned that a law passed by the Argentine Congress in the early hours of Thursday morning to crack down on terrorism could be used to criminalise social protest.

Pakistan: In Arms Against Saints

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Taliban have destroyed schools, bombed music shops and carried out gruesome executions in Pakistan’s territories bordering Afghanistan. But what they may never be forgiven for is the destruction of ancient shrines where revered Sufi mystics are interred.

Mass Tragedy Feared As Closure Of Mek Camp Looms

Monday, December 19, 2011

The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another location in the country or risk the lives of as many as 3,200 people.

India: Kashmir Clamours for Normalcy

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

As armed insurgency in India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir ebbs, the elected state government is keen to hasten a return to normalcy by easing draconian security laws and reopening movie theatres and liquor shops, banned by fundamentalist militant groups.

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