Requirement for a ‘late sharati’ — or male companion — is one of many restrictions placed on women in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
While Afghanistan has huge mineral wealth, China gives cash only on delivery. Taliban will probably have to turn to West, which will upset other extremists.
Taliban has said their government will uphold women’s rights within Sharia rules, but reports of violence against women, and previous history don’t inspire confidence in such assertions.
A law has been struck down for being “arbitrary” for the first time, until now it was used only to strike down executive action not laws made by a legislature.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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