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100-plus television stations shut down during past year
Ahead of this year’s World Television Day on November 21, Nai Supporting Open Media, a media advocacy group in Afghanistan, reveals that more than 100 television networks have stopped operating in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of…
Small hands and big responsibilities: child labour in Jawzjan’s clay kilns
Shagoufa* is a 10-year-old child who carries adult responsibilities on her small shoulders. She works with her father and two younger brothers in one of the clay kilns. Even her youngest brother, 5-year-old, makes bricks. Though they are…
How to survive in a hungry nation: collecting grains that fall out of food aid sacks
Sharifa, 8, sits in front of the World Food Programme’s office in Kandahar every day, waiting for the UN agency to distribute food. When it begins, she moves forward, but not to place an official handout in her white sack. Sharifa is there…
They were about to write their final exams and graduate. Then the Taliban banned them.
Everything was fine until 10 minutes before 9 p.m on Tuesday, December 20. Shabana* and her mother were having tea at home when Ahmad, Shabana’s older brother, returned from prayers at the mosque with a troubled face, obviously trying to…
Pakistan’s missing India policy: Between a rock and a hard bilateral place
Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto’s biting words to his Indian counterpart on the sidelines of a UN meeting in New York last week came when he was asked to respond to India’s repeated labelling of Pakistan as “the host of Osama bin…
Importance of a Strong Opposition
In the November 20 elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assemblies (PA), Nepalis selected a set of old but experienced, together with a completely new and fresh, representatives. The elected parliamentarians and…
Factum Perspective: Buddhism in the Cold War
What prompted the US government to put in place a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and how successful were these clandestine efforts at using a predominant religion of the region to counter the spread of communism?…
Mukroh: A Spark for Underlying Resentments
While the border remains tense, Meghalaya's capital Shillong passes through yet another cycle of insecurity.
‘Media Women of the year’ awarded to AO news CEO Shimla!
Shimla Ahmed, CEO of AO News, has received the ‘Media Women of the Year’ award for her contributions to the advancement of journalism.
When boundaries do not reflect social realities
It’s ironic that in July last year, the Mizoram-Assam border clash saw five Assam policemen slain at the hands of the Mizoram Police. In the wee hours of November 22, a border clash erupted allegedly because Assam forest guards and Assam…