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South East Asia
Broken Dreams and Fallen Banners: The End of an Era at Nanthikadal
By Leo Nirosha DarshanExpress Newspapers COLOMBO: In the annals of Sri Lankan history, May 2009 represents far more than a mere calendar entry. It marks the final chapter of a thirty-year armed struggle and a pivotal moment that fundamentally reshaped the destiny of a nation. What politicians like Lalith Athulathmudali…
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A Broken Shoe Is Never a Reason to Stop Walking
Assistant Commissioner Noor Bano and the broken sandals in a glass case on her mahogany desk By Nasir AijazThe AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: In the shimmering heat of Tharparkar, a desert district of Sindh province of Pakistan, bordering India, where the wind carries more sand than moisture, fourteen-year-old Noor Bano lived…
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Pakistan’s Women Being Killed for So-called Honor
Protest against so-called Honor killing – file photo By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The statistics are a grim testament to the failure of the Pakistani state and its justice system, making it perhaps one of the most dangerous countries for women in the world. According to the Human…
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South Asia
Why Financial Independence Changes Everything for Women
By Pirah Aijaz KARACHI: For many women, financial independence is not just about making money; it is also about gaining control over their own lives. In fact, it brings the confidence and fulfilment of being a self-empowered woman. Across cultures and societies, women have been conditioned to rely on men…
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The Map and the Mandate: India’s Gender Reform Meets Its Federal Fault Lines
India has passed a landmark law for women’s representation but by tying it to delimitation it has turned a social reform into a high-stakes political contest over who holds power in the world’s largest democracy. By Gunjeet Sra NEW DELHI: In September 2023, India appeared to close a chapter that…
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Lebanon Burns and the Questions the World Will Not Answer
By Ghena Halik BEIRUT: The numbers are stark: 357 killed, 1,232 wounded. But numbers, however large, conceal as much as they reveal. They flatten lives into data points, obscuring the people behind them -children, parents, professionals, neighbors – whose futures ended in a matter of minutes. Last week, Lebanon experienced…
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West Asia
The War Behind the War: How Misinformation Wins
Nouha Belaid By Nouha BelaidPhD in Media & Communication, Master in Public Law DUBAI: I got into my car, paused for a moment… and then it hit me: the footage was old, recycled and recast as if it belonged to the current escalation surrounding Iran. In that instant, it became…
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War, Racism and Nazism
The intensity of the attack on the B1 bridge (Photo: Aref Fathi) By Alireza BahramiTEHRAN: After attacking several universities, schools, pharmaceutical factories and the Pasteur Institute in Iran, the US military attacked and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran and the region, near Tehran, on Thursday evening with heavy bombs.…
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Two Rockets, Two Worlds: One Reaches the Moon, the Other Targets Lives
Contrasting worlds: People cheer as the Artemis II rocket carries hope and dreams in Florida (Right). Buildings damaged and people injured as rocket (missile) hits residential area in Bahrain (Left) By Habib Toumi MANAMA: In Florida, crowds gather with a sense of awe and collective pride, watching as the Artemis…
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Civilians From 30 Countries Killed, Injured in Attacks on UAE
By Habib ToumiMANAMA: People from 30 countries have been killed or wounded in the hundreds of missile and drone attacks launched by Iran against the United Arab Emirates, official statistics indicate. In its latest report, the UAE Ministry of Defense said that “since the start of the blatant Iranian attacks,…
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