The registrar general of India announced on Monday that some four million people have been removed from citizenship rolls in the northeastern state of Assam, which borders Bangladesh.
Contents: Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence; Growing violence by Sri Lankan Buddhist hardliners against Tamils; North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is ‘secure’
Al-Qaeda’s Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) wing is urging its supporters in India to target Hindus and their religious places, reports the Times of India (TOI), citing a recently released propaganda video titled “Saffron Terror” and intelligence sources.
India is struggling to contain a growing epidemic of violent assaults, some of them lethal, against meat-eaters by self-appointed Hindu cow vigilantes.
Contents: Pakistan celebrates its 70th birthday, wondering what Pakistan is; Generational history of the 1947 Partition War that created Pakistan and India
Contents: India’s ‘Operation All-Out’ brings Kashmir closer to all-out war; Kashmir escalations building to all-out war; Multiple terrorist attacks across Pakistan kill nearly 50
Contents: Sri Lanka targets radical nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS); Brief generational history of Sri Lanka and Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)
Contents: India forced to delay Kashmir elections after large surge in violence; Hindu activists push for ban on cow slaughter across India; Why is a US carrier group strike force going to the Korean peninsula?
Contents: Sri Lanka Sinhalese Buddhist monks accused of racist hate speech against Hindu Tamils; Sri Lanka says that ’32 élite, well-educated Muslims’ have joined ISIS in Syria
A Facebook post thought to be ridiculing one of Islam’s holiest sites prompted a mob of over 100 Muslim protesters to loot at least 15 temples and hundreds of Hindu homes in the Muslim-majority nation of Bangladesh, a local Hindu community leader told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Thousands of Hindu and Christian girls, many under the age of 18, are being abducted and forcibly converted to Islam before they are coerced into marrying their captors, according to Pakistani activists.
Contents: India’s Narendra Modi finally hits out at Cow Protectors (‘Gau Rakshaks’); Generational history of cow protection in India and Hinduism
A 17-year-old was shot dead and a friend seriously injured by a Muslim mob in Pakistan, allegedly in retaliation for the arrest of a mentally unstable Hindu man accused of “desecrating” a copy of the Quran.
Contents: Bangladesh tries to recover from Dhaka terror attack, the worst in 40 years; Suspicions that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the Dhaka attack
Contents: Iran and India sign ‘historic’ deal for Iran’s Chabahar port; Chabahar port deal highlights enmity between Iran-India versus Pakistan-China; Iran, India and the classic fables of Kalileh-wa-Dimneh, Jataka and Panchatantra; The Caspian Corridor and the New Silk Road
In Nepal, Hindus dedicate one day during the five-day festival of Tihar to dogs, known as Kukur Tihar. Other days are devoted to other animals, such as cows or crows.
Religious intolerance in secular India continues to grow as hardline Hindus target those they believe are butchering cows, which are sacred to them.
A new report by the Pew Research Center reveals that views on immigration vary considerably according to religious affiliation, with Muslims and Hindus topping the charts of those who say that increased immigration into the U.S. represents “a change for the better.”
Contents: Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias; Pakistan’s LeJ anti-Shia terror group may have links to ISIS; History of sectarian violence in Pakistan since Partition
Hostilities flared in Indian-held Kashmir after a right-wing Hindu group set a Muslim flag ablaze, claiming it was the banner of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), the Journal of Turkish Weekly reports.
