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  The Taliban were alarmed by Zawahiri's murder, and a month after the attack, they tried to pin Pakistani officials with responsibility.                                                                                                                             The Taliban are now unbalanced as a result of the murder of Aiymen Al Zawahiri in the center of Kabul. Or at least their defe...

                 Muslim Kashmiris continue to have their basic rights violated by the Indian government, which forbids Muharram processions and attacks anyone who attempts to peacefully protest the prohibition. We would have anticipated that they would have drawn some conclusions from the previous year when a similar prohibition and accompanying use of force against processions drew strong condemnation on a global scale.   Even though the processions did not appear to involve any attempts to agitate against the Indian government, members of the ruling BJP and their front men in the media have already started trying to portray participants as separatists. Additionally, the Ministry of External Affairs actually dared to accuse them of "bigotry" and fostering religious differences in India in the face of worldwide criticism, including that of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (IOC) and several other nations who are typically...

                 The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is currently in power in India, is carrying out Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision last year to designate Pakistan's Independence Day as "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day," which is yet another indication that there are slim chances of any thawing in relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.   The action sparked new tensions between the two nations, with Islamabad sharply criticizing the BJP government for its "mischievous behavior."   The Indian action was sharply condemned in a statement released by the Foreign Office on Thursday. "True to its customary revisionist goal, the BJP-RSS-led dispensation has once again sought to reference the sad events and mass migration that took place in the aftermath of Independence in 1947 in a hypocritical and biased manner."   The statement said, "It is reprehensible that the BJP government is willfully seek...