Under heavy guard, Hindu pilgrimage resumes at site of Kashmir attack
The Indian government has deployed a security force of tens of thousands to facilitate the journey by devotees through one of the most militarized zones in the world.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Bloomberg
2 hours ago
- Bloomberg
The Developing World's G-7 Would Like a Word
It likes to think of itself as the developing world's equivalent of the Group of Seven. Yet unlike the G-7, the BRICS bloc — designed for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but now expanded to 11 members — has sharply diverging interests. It includes energy exporters like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as importers like India; material-hungry manufacturing giants like China, and commodity superpowers like Brazil; moderate democracies like Indonesia, and extremist theocracies like Iran. If there's one thing that almost all of them have in common, however, it's that they want to ensure the grouping's most powerful member, China, doesn't dominate. Beijing might want to use its influence over global trade to increase the use of the yuan; but India has made it clear that replacing the US dollar as the global reserve currency isn't part of the BRICS' mandate. Some of the newer members, such as the UAE, are close US allies.
New York Times
4 hours ago
- New York Times
I.C.C. Seeks Arrests of Taliban Leaders Over Persecution of Women
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban government and its chief justice, citing draconian restrictions against women and girls as evidence of crimes against humanity. The Taliban have 'specifically targeted girls and women by reason of their gender, depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms,' the court said in a statement detailing the arrest warrants against Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's supreme leader, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the country's top justice official. Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, they have mostly erased women from public life, preventing them from speaking outside, accessing most workplaces or going to public spaces like parks, gyms and salons. Women cannot travel long distances without being accompanied by a male relative, and they must be covered from head to toe when outside the home. Girls cannot attend school beyond sixth grade. These measures, affecting half of the country's 41 million people, have made Afghanistan the most restrictive country in the world for women, experts say. Some accuse the Taliban of orchestrating a 'gender apartheid.' The court's judges said that the policies imposed on the population had led to murder, imprisonment, torture, rape and forced disappearances. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CNN
8 hours ago
- CNN
ICC issues arrest warrants for top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan. Haibatullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, chief justice of the Taliban, are suspected of 'ordering, inducing or soliciting the crime against humanity of persecution' against girls, women and 'other persons non-conforming with the Taliban's policy on gender, gender identity or expression,' the ICC said in a statement. This is a developing story and will be updated.
