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Afghan forces kill 27 Taliban insurgents

KABUL, 11 April 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: Afghan security forces said Saturday at least 27 Taliban insurgents were killed in the northern Badakhshan province bordering Tajikistan. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the insurgents were killed in air and ground offensives in Warduj and Nusay districts last evening. It said nine insurgents also got injured in operations aimed at thwarting the Taliban's plans to storm these two districts. "No civilians have been harmed in these operations," Rouhullah Ahmadzai, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said. Meanwhile, the Taliban have condemned these operations as "war crimes". "Dozens of civilian homes have been demolished, many gardens and farms have been destroyed and heavy corporeal and financial losses inflicted on innocent villagers,"

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Canadian doctor serious concerns for Rohingya refugees

TRENTON, 20 May 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: The outbreak of COVID-19 in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh will prove to be a cataclysmic disaster, according to a Canadian doctor and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Fozia Alvi, who regularly travels to the crowded and unsanitary Rohingya camps in South Asia, predicted millions of refugees will be decimated after the first case of coronavirus appeared last week. “It is like a catastrophe waiting to happen,” the Alberta physician told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday. “There is absolutely no way to limit the spread of COVID-19 there.” Alvi was nominated for the Nobel prize last year for humanitarian work and through her foundation Humanity Auxilium, she sends doctors every other month to the camps to provide medical services to the

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China in 'close' contact with India on resolving border issues

ANKARA, 17 June 2020 [Fik/News Sources]: China on Wednesday reiterated its claim that a recent military clash with India had occurred on Beijing's side of the de facto border in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a news conference in Beijing, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that the "incident was very clear, as it happened on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control [LAC] and the responsibility did not rest with China," the daily Global Times reported. India confirmed on Tuesday that at least 20 of its soldiers, including an officer, were killed in the eastern Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir last Monday night. Border skirmishes between China and India began May 5 in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, followed by another in the Nakula pass in India's northeastern Sikkim

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