South Asia
Pakistan passes strict anti-terrorism bill
Pakistan's parliament passed a new anti-terrorism bill that allows warrantless searches and detention of suspects at secret facilities for up to 60 days without charge.
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South Asia
Sri Lanka: fear in wake of anti-Muslim riots
Police declared a curfew in Sri Lanka's coastal town of Aluthgama after simmering tensions between Buddhist militants and local Muslims escalated into deadly clashes.
South Asia
UN rights experts warn Pakistan on persecution
UN human rights experts urged Pakistan to take urgent measures against faith-based killings and protect the country's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is now outlawed.
South Asia
Pakistan: 68 lawyers charged with blasphemy
Police in the Pakistani province of Punjab filed charges of blasphemy against 68 Shi'ite lawyers after they staged a protest against the police beating of one of their colleagues.
South Asia
Mt. Everest disaster and global climate shift
Sherpas who guide tourists up Mount Everest go on strike following the deadly avalanche—as destabilization of the Himalayan glaciers portends more such disasters.
South Asia
Sri Lanka: no cooperation with war crimes inquiry
Sri Lanka's foreign ministry announced that it will not cooperate with a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.
South Asia
Sri Lanka authorities arrest human rights activists
Sri Lankan authorities arrested two prominent human rights activists who were seeking information on the "disappeared" for alleged violations of anti-terror laws.
South Asia
Judge among 11 dead in attack on Pakistan court
Militant group Ahrar-ul-Hind, demanding implementation of Sharia law, claimed a suicide blast at a court complex in Islamabad that left 11 dead and 25 injured.
South Asia
Pakistan: jihadis step up attacks on Sufis
Gunmen attacked a Sufi religious gathering in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, leaving eight dead—the latest in a wave of such attacks by Deobandi fundamentalist militants.
South Asia
Sri Lanka opposition demand war crimes probe
The main opposition party in Sri Lanka is demanding the government conduct an investigation into alleged crimes carried out in the long war against the Tamil Tigers.
South Asia
Bangladesh Islamist dies awaiting war crimes trial
Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf died at age 87 while awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
South Asia
Bangladesh: another Islamist charged in war crimes
Another leader in Bangladesh's main Islamist party was charged with crimes related to the 1971 war, in what the opposition calls a plan to eradicate its leaders.