(OP: Please note that the mention of 'India' in the text includes not only today's India, but also people from today's Pakistan and Bangladesh. Also important to the war effort in Europe were other groups such as the Nepalese (commonly known as Gurkhas).)

Does Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk ignore the role of the Indian army?


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Blast hits Pakistan's Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine

At least 75 dead, including children and women, as ISIL claims blast at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Sufi shrine in Sindh.


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Disappeared: Silencing Pakistan's activists

Rights groups say blasphemy allegations against disappeared activists aim to silent dissent for good.


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Indian army kills two gunmen, ending Kashmir standoff

Heavily armed attackers who seized government building in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed after days-long firefight.


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Baluchistan is a place that desperately needs lawyers.

Pakistan's largest province by area, it is the home of a decades-old separatist insurgency, fueled by real grievances over neglect and lack of political representation. It is also increasingly the target of Sunni extremists, who bomb and kill its Shiite minorities. What leaders the province has ( Read more... )

OP: I wanted to post an article about Qandeel Baloch herself, since readers may not be familiar with her.
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Qandeel Baloch: How her murder reflects a divided country


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A group of clerics in Pakistan has declared marriage between transgender individuals permissible in Islam, saying they have a right to be buried in Muslim ceremonies, according to a copy of a religious edict Reuters obtained Monday ( Read more... )

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing 126 people, officials said, in the worst attack to hit the country in years.

The overwhelming majority of the victims were students at the army public school, which has children and teenagers in grades 1-10. ( Read more... )