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South Asia
Rare elephants’ sports competitions attract over 100,000 spectators in Nepal
Photo: Bishnu GautamKATHMANDU – Over 100,000 local and foreign tourists enjoyed the games and beauty pageant of elephants in the Chitwan National Park, some 200 kilometers west of here last week.An overwhelming crowd of viewers of all ages and sexes reached the park, the largest national park of Nepal, to enjoy the…
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South Asia
Unidentified Militants Attack A Train At Railway Station In Quetta, Pakistan
An injured train passenger receives medical treatment at a hospital after an attack at a railway station in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on Jan. 6, 2013. At least four people were killed and about a dozen injured when a train was attacked by unknown militants in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on…
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South Asia
Indian Folk Artists Accompany Naked Hindu Holy Men Procession In Religious Congregation
Indian folk artists accompany Naga Sadhu, or Naked Hindu holy men procession as they arrive for Mahakumbh, in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the large religious congregation on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and…
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South Asia
A Leader of India’s Ruling Congress Party Manhandled By Women For Having Raped A Women
In this image taken from video obtained from Network 1 News and Information Syndicate (NNIS), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Bikram Singh Brahma, center, a leader of India’s ruling Congress party, has his shirt torn off by women in the village of Santipur,…
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South Asia
Pakistan’s Shiite Muslims Hold Religious Procession To Remember Imam Hussain In Karachi
Pakistani Shiite Muslims attend a religious procession in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Jan. 3, 2013. Pakistani Shiite Muslims held religious processions across the country to mark the 40th day of mourning after the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. <Xinhua/Masroor>
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South Asia
Indian Men Warm Themselves Around Bonfire At A Road In New Delhi Amid Dense Fog
Indian men warm themselves around a bonfire as another gets a haircut from a roadside barber in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Dense fog enveloped the city in the morning hours affecting road and rail traffic as well as operations at the International Airport, according to a local…
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South Asia
Pakistani President Meets With Malala Undergoing Treatment In Birmingham Hospital
In this Dec. 8, 2012 file photo provided by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, left, and his daughter Asifa Bhutto, center back, meet with Malala Yousufzai, where she is undergoing treatment for injuries sustained when a Taliban gunman opened fire on her and her friends…
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East Asia
13 wishful actions Asian leaders hoped to take this year
1. Could I have a dream that Mr. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; President-elect of the People’s Republic of China, will play a greater role in the global peace of the yellow continent and the world? Shops and houses are filled with Chinese…
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South Asia
A Bomb Goes Off In Karachi, Killing Two People And Injuring 35 Others
People wheel an injured man at hospital in Pakistan’s Karachi on Jan. 1, 2013. At least two people were killed and 35 others injured on Tuesday evening as a bomb went off in a busy area in Karachi. Cameramen film a vehicle damaged by a motorcycle bomb in Pakistan’s Karachi…
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South Asia
Pakistanis Mourn Death Of Seven NGO Members By Attack At Swabi
People gather at the attack site in northwest Pakistan’s Swabi on Jan. 1, 2013. At least seven people including six females of a non-government organization were killed as their team came under attack in Swabi, local media reported on Tuesday. Pakistanis mourn over the death of NGO workers in northwest…
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