Turkey woke up to the first morning of the new year with the stream of price hikes. On the last day of the year, towards midnight, electricity, natural gas, fuel and bridge toll were increased at a very high rate. (Agencies)
In recent weeks, there has been outrage expressed at an app created by Hindu extremists in India that put more than a hundred Muslim women “on sale” in a fake “auction”. The app, called “Bulli Bai”, a derogatory term used by many right-wing Hindus to describe Muslim women, sourced the photos of Muslim women and uploaded them in a lewd context and offered them “for sale”.
The Khorog city court sentenced seven residents of the Yazgulyam jamoat of the Vanj region to different terms of imprisonment for extremism. Among them are three students from a local high school. According to Radio Ozodi, referring to a source in the court of the city of Khorog, the sentence to the residents of Yazgulyam was passed at the end of December 2021. "Four adults were sentenced to six years…
On January 7, the President of Kazakhstan, KZh Tokayev, made another statement: “The anti-terrorist operation continues in our country. The large-scale and well-coordinated work is being carried out by the police, the National Guard and the army to restore law and order in accordance with the Constitution.
Khan’s new bill seeks to make the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) autonomous and has drawn widespread condemnation. The former finance minister, Miftah Ismail described the bill as converting the SBP into the “bank of IMF”. [aninews] Ismail also declared that the new measures would make the SBP more powerful than the parliament as “there will be no oversight of fiscal and monetary policy”. [thenews]
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