News: On Saturday 23 August 2014, amidst the continuing political crisis in Pakistan, the third round of talks between representatives of the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf ended without any progress. Whilst the PTI leader, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, demanded that the Prime Minister resign, the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked for 30 days to conduct an independent investigation into allegations of election fraud. Separately, the PTI party chief, Imran Khan,…

News: On 25/08/2014, India and Bangladesh concluded a five-day BSF-BGB Director General level conference in New Delhi, India. Both countries agreed to hold joint periodical training exercises, namely "Umbrella of Joint Exercises" in which India Border Security Force (BSF) would train Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in border management and advanced border security training skills. In the conference, the officials have also decided to make this joint training institutionalized for…

News: "You were given many chances to negotiate the release of your people via cash transactions as other governments have accepted," it said. "We have also offered prisoner exchanges to free the Muslims currently in your detention, like our sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui. However, you proved very quickly to us that this is not what you are interested in." This message, sent to the employers of American journalist James Foley…

News: Within a five months period, Malaysia was struck by two airline disasters that had shocked the nation and the world. MH370 disappeared from flight radar in March 2014 and is still not found until today. Then, on the 17th of July 2014, MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down in Ukrainian airspace. Malaysians share their sorrow over the two shocking events and when the bodies…