that way is pakistan? that way is pakistan, about 70 kilometres up north.n border is, which lies along the middle of kutch, which is a geographical valley. at nearly 500 metres above sea level, the highest point, kalo dungar hill, allows us a dramatic view of this geological phenomenon, the rann, or desert of kutch, which continues into pakistan. i wanted to get up closer to this natural wonder. it's quite incredible, the sand. i mean, it'sjust hard crystals, white salt. you can probably taste it. really unusual to see something like this. the further out i walked, the less lovely it became. it's actually quite incredible. it's more like snow or sludge than white sand or white crystals when it gets wet around here. i'm getting really deep into it. whoa! today, this shimmering wilderness is a healthy source of income for the region, thanks mainly to a three—month long festival throughout the winter. it is amazing. what was a vast, barren landscape has been transformed into this colourful complex, where by night, there's live music and other performances and

they have sanctuary in pakistan not likely to go away anytime soon. they have made -- started to make inroads among non-pashtun groups which is significant for them. their ties with al qaeda were very, very difficult after september 11th and for many, many years beyond that. they have been improving recently. they fight, however, with islamic state khorasan, which is the islamic state affiliate that is in afghanistan. they're an internally fractious movement. so they're not this sort of monolith. they have many different factions. although those different factions are very loyal to the taliban. so -- or to the taliban's sort of identity. there often has been an aspiration to maybe fragment the taliban, and get them to defect, and i think that continues to be unlikely. their decision-making is actually very slow. they tend to run decisions kind of like a traditional shura or jirga where everybody has a veto. sort of like the u.n. security council. so as long as there are people among their inner shura that believe the military campaign ought to continu

i'm a hindu and i was living in pakistan.ive in pakistan, but i was not allowed to. and all the time the bloodshed goes on. throughout this vast land, hindus and muslims géékégféfv ' ' in new surroundings. we had to leave pakistan, now a muslim state. bis seneca-11w an when things settle down we will come back. but we never realised there was no coming back. newsreel: fleeing from their looted, bloodstained towns comes a new exodus. already 1.5 million have been exchanged between the two dominions. another 2 million are preparing for their trek. one colonel hindu colonel, who had been transferred to india, who met my father. my father was a medical practitioner. he said, now that he was going to india, could he do something for me? he said, take my three children to india. he said, i can't accommodate three, but i can accommodate one. so i was the one who had to go there. i was crying, because i did not know whether i would see them again. as soon as we reached that main road, i found thousands of people there, as if the whol

it h -- pakistan. it had to be air floated through iran and some parts in afghanistan and it took about six months. that was a hydro electric dam. i don't think hydro electric dams have a lot of military purposes. it was irrigating land and was producing electricity for the rural area. so our hope is that pakistan seeings this stable and prosperous afghanistan and adds to stability and prosperity of pakistan. rather than seeing this as win lose situation. which is not helping pakistan. and not helping the whole area. >> i may follow up. you mentioned earlier the, you used the word returnee from pakistan and iran. as far as i know, they are actually expelled. do you face similar level of expulsion this year? >> yes, after the spring, the numbers will start. as far as the government is concerned, all afghans. that's part of the deal. they are nationals welcomed in the country. within the resources that we have, we're trying to see what we can do to accommodate. that's their country. actually, one of the

now, as it relates to pakistan, unfortunately pakistan has been trying to drag the administration and rhetoric. the issues and challenges that we have with india as afghanistan have been positive. >> afghanistan has no linkages, no opinions or whatever on those issues. that's a bilateral issue between india and pakistan. i'll give you one example of an issue that could really help the region as a whole in the three countries, there is a straight line between pakistan and india and the border by six kilometers, less than four miles. where we get the train from afghanistan to india, it has to go through, it has to stop and unload everything but on the trucks and then pick it up in qatari which wouldadd to the cost. if we can get some agreement as part of that whole relationship, it will be , it will enhance trade for the three countries, that will have a major impact on reduction in pakistan. and pakistan, a country of older 200 million people, having an economy smaller than israel really gives an idea of how many lost opportunities that country has and how people have been carefully pu

meera: we are way too different in pakistan.ix women are kidnapped every day, for women are raped every day. women,e is any voice for that would be a credit for us. is sadly, the islamization covering everything for us. if you speak about human rights, it's not acceptable. as soooon as you start talking about women's rights, it becomes a religious problem. i don't know where it comes from and why it should be like that, but that is what we're dealing with. peter: that is an acute observation. disparitiesh great of wealth and poverty. germany, of course, is one of the most prosperous and possibly one of the most progressive countries in the world. but here there is still a glass ceiling that keeps women from entering the higher echelons of politics or business in large numbers. let's look at some facts and figures. >> german chancellor chancellor angela merkel is considered the world's most powerful woman. just about half of her cabinet is made up of women. the defense mentors -- defense minister has one of the top jobs. women pl

now, as it relates to pakistan, unfortunately pakistan has been trying to drag at least -- the issues and challenges they have with india as afghanistan being part of that issue. afghanistan has no linkages, no opinions or whatever on those issues. that's the bilateral issue between india and pakistan. i'll give you one example of an issue that could really help the issue as a whole in the three countries. there's a strait of land between pakistan and india in the waga atari border, about six kilometers, less than four miles, where when we get the trades from afghanistan to india it has to go through -- it has to stop and reload -- unload everything at the waga, put on trucks and then pick it up in atari, which is really adding so much cost. if we can get some agreements as part of that whole relationship, it will enhance trades for the three countries that will have a major impact on poverty reduction in pakistan. pakistan, a country of over 200 million people, having an economy smaller than israel really gives you an idea of how many lost opportunities that country has and how peopl

secondly, there's a project in pakistan th pakistan. but the potential is for more than 15,000. that could easily be accommodated. the last area is data. if you look at the data, the internet traffic globally, half of that is between europe and asia. if you look at those that are familiar with the routing of that, it goes through europe to the mediterranean through the swiss canal, the red sea, then wraps through china on the east side of china. that's why data packet takes about 130 milliseconds to send from europe to asia. through these -- of course, those cables have maintenance issues as well as now people that can sniff those data. we're talking about one cable that we're looking at which will be part of a gas pipeline that will connect from india to turkmenistan. then there's a similar piece under the caspian sea. there's one pipeline already to italy, so we can have this line of italy to india fiberoptics that will rival and would be a great alternative for the tra tratran trans siberian fiber. by this fiber, we can cut that transmission time by about 35 to 40 millisecond

there is a growing nationalism in pakistan.remain strong and haven't been challenged by the state, but there is also a rejection of those jihadis who attack targets on pakistani soil. 0wen bennettjoan, bbc news, north waziristan. as fighters from the self—styled islamic state are gradually being driven out of their stronghold in iraq, the scale of the atrocities is being revealed against one ethnic group in particular. the yazidi people are ethnic kurds, and the un says they are the victims of a genocidal campaign. thousands have been killed, thousands more women and children are being held captive, many traded as sex slaves. some have managed to escape and seek sanctuary in germany. naomi grimley has been to one refuge deep in a forest in the south—west of the country. a secret location in south—west germany. it is a place of exile. 80 yazidi women and children now live here. they were violently persecuted by so—called islamic state and chased out of northern iraq. these two boys were captured by the extremists and sent to a m

there used to be thousands of bomb attacks in pakistan each year, that is now down to hundreds.y reckons its operations here are the most successful anti—jihadist campaign the world has yet seen. this is sub conventional warfare. it is not conventional warfare. so somewhere it was the ied that was a threat to you, somewhere it was small ambush or different, so different incidents happening in different areas when we were trying to get them. just like aleppo and mosul, the army caused massive destruction fighting the jihadis. when the battle was raging, the entire population left. the effort is now on to get them back. around a million people from north waziristan fled when the conflict was at its height and the question now is will they come back? so the army has built facilities like this school, that can take 1,000 children — not open yet — but it is hoped this will attract people to come back thinking there are ways they can live here, and get their children educated. a few hours‘ drive away in the city of peshawar, traders say the number of bombs has gone down, but they stil

it was like playing anywhere else in the world, like india or pakistan.day, i think cricket is the winner. it showed we could come here and the players could have a good time and enjoy playing cricket here. good stuff indeed. it was a good sunday for great britain at the european indoor athletics in serbia. laura muir became only the second briton to win two individual events after adding gold in the 3,000 metres to the 1500 metres title she took 2a hours earlier. she stormed to victory in belgrade in a championship record time ahead of turkey's yasemin can and compatriot eilish mccolgan. muir's achievements matched those of colinjackson set in paris 23 years ago, before she was even born. asha philip pulled off a surprise, breaking the british record on her way to winning the 60 metres. it's her first individual medal at a major senior championships and she's also the first british winner of the women's 60m title since beverly kinch at gothenburg “119811. the day's action was also lit up by serbia's ivana spanovic, who delighted the home crowd by retaini

he sees himself as part of the battle for pakistan's soul.number of shopping malls, cinemas and cable tv channels. that has accentuated cultural divisions within the country. this represents the divide which we have in our society and i think that divide is right, you know, with the establishment, pakistan as a post—colonial state, because i think there are people who feel that pakistan should become a democratic secular country, and there are others who believe that pakistan should become a theocratic state. i think that is a consistently, i think there is no consensus in society but the state, the nature of state should be in the context of pakistan. and the blasphemy law actually sharpens that divide in society. whilst the religious right complain they are being marginalised, it is often the most vulnerable in society that are affected by blasphemy laws. mumtaz qadri's victim was speaking out in favour of a christian woman sentenced to death for supposedly committing blasphemy in an argument with local women in her village. since he was mu

six years ago, sonali got married in pakistan.nal, arranged for her to come and live with him and her in—laws in london. i came here and i was seven months pregnant. i was thinking everything would be fine and my life would be better but they treated me like a slave or servant in their house and they never allowed me to go outside. shortly after she had given birth, sonali says her husband suggested a family holiday back in pakistan to help her recover. on their second night abroad, he was out with friends but phoned her with a strange demand. my husband called me first and said, "i am coming to pick up my son because a few relatives are coming from karachi, the city in pakistan, and they need to see him." he just took my son from me and i don't know why i was feeling scared that time, i don't know, but ijust called him again and again, but suddenly his phone was switched off. eventually, sonali realised her husband had been deceiving her all along. he had taken her three—month old baby and left the country. i was thinking there i

india and pakistan together are the strongest country in the world. sides have shared the catwalk at the show, celebrating 70 years of independence together. we all actually have the same culture. there is really not much difference when we look at the kind of clothes that we make and that are designed. it means a lot for me because i am indian and my family is from india and my sister is indian. —— my ancestors. we should have no restrictions and no boundaries. organisers are hoping events like this one will help ease tensions between the two nations which have recently spilt into the world of entertainment. now, when we see people from both of the countries here or in dubai or anywhere else, you know? people don't have anything in their hearts or in their mind, you know? it is always the politics that brings them apart, you know? although it was a night of glamour, the event also raised thousands of pounds for the charity which tackles poverty in both india and pakistan. shabnam mahmood, bbc news. the singer songwriter, yuna, is one of the few malay

bringing together the best from india and pakistan in london. i think that's the way forward.at happened 50—60 years ago, that's the gap year. i think it's good to get back to business and i think india and pakistan together are probably one of the strongest countries in the world. despite the historic differences between the countries, leading designers from both sides have shared the catwalk at this show, celebrating 70 years of independence together. we all actually have the same culture. there is really not much difference when we look at the kind of clothes that we make and that are designed. it means a lot for me because i am half indian, my family comes from india, my ancestors are from india. i think we are one nation, it'sjust a little boundary and fashion needs no restrictions, no boundaries. organisers are hoping events like this one will help ease tensions between the two nations which have recently spilt into the world of entertainment. now, when we see people from both of the countries here or in dubai or anywhere else, you know? people don't have anything in the

india and pakistan together are the strongest country in the world.ared the catwalk at the show, celebrating 70 years of independence together. we all actually have the same culture. there is really not much difference when we look at the kind of clothes that we make and that are designed. it means a lot for me because i am indian and my family is from india and my sister is indian. we should have no restrictions and no boundaries. organisers are hoping events like this one will help ease tensions between the two nations which have recently spilt into the world of entertainment. now, when we see people from both of the countries here or in dubai or anywhere else, you know? people don't have anything in their hearts or in their mind, you know? it is more the politics that brings them apart, you know? although it was a night of glamour, the event also raised thousands of pounds for the charity which tackles poverty in both india and pakistan. shabnam mahmood, bbc news. singer and songwriter, yuna, is one of the few malaysian artists to have made it big

india and pakistan come together on the catwalk in a special london showcase.t tables. then suddenly the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards and it was a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. the hydrogen bomb on a remote pacific atoll. the americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. i had heard the news earlier and so my heart went bang and bang. the constitutional rights of these marchers have their rights as citizens of the united states and they should be protected even in the right to test them out so they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy, i know you don't want to say too much about it, but does it worry you it's going to boil up when you get to the stage? well, it worries me, yeah. i hope everything will be all right at the end of the day. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: north korea's neighbours have condemned the country's latest test—firing of four ballistic missiles — the japanese pr

my ex fiance was introduced to my family in pakistan in 2013. after numerous visits between the families we felt this was a good match. in the spring of 2014, i visited pakistan and met my fiance at her home. in may 2014, we were engaged and talk to each other on the phone and text and skype. my fiance insisted she wanted to come to the united states as soon as possible so i filed for a fiance petition and the usa approved that petition. she had an interview in march in 2015 for a k-1 visa which was approved and in april she came to the united states. during her stay with me she appeared chiefly a eed cheerful. we had lots of fuchb and she traveled with me to las vegas and santa barbara because i was looking to relocate jobs. we were happy and i was looking forward to getting married and start a family. then things started to change and she threatened to leave back to pakistan after she spoke to her family. by june 2015 she did not want to plan a wedding saying, what is the rush. we had arguments but it never changed my mind whether i wanted to

suspended following an anti—corru ption investigation focused on the pakistan super league.irfan fulfils certain conditions imposed on him. translation: you are aware that on march 1a the board called me here and suspended me on the basis of two allegations. i want to tell you that i was approached by two parties and it was my fault that i failed to let the board and the anticorruption people know. i wholeheartedly accept my mistake. let me say that i gave those people a shot up call and i did not do any corruption. the england bowlerjames anderson has appealed to cricket's powers that be not to pursue twenty 20 at the expense of the test format. australia has the big bash, india the ipl, and now england is to launch a new t20 league. anderson says he's a big fan of the limited overs game but believes the five—day format is something special. hopefully, you know, the administration people, the important people upstairs are going to look at that and see a way of making sure test cricket doesn't fall away, as t20 sort of grows and grows because, for me, test cricket is the pin

this should be the last rodeo for pakistan. this is why i have introduced the pakistan state sponsor of terrorism designation act. the bill requires the administration to issue a pro report containing either a determination that pakistan is a state sponsor of terrorism or a justification as to why it is not. it's time to determine whose side pakistan is on. mr. speaker, they're not on our side. that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition in -- recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. speaker, the republican health care plan would not only fail to improve upon the affordable care act, it would undo the benefits millions of americans depend on and devastate our economy in the process. this plan would strip millions of working families of their health care, cut benefits for millions more, and increase premiums for older americans by 25%. it would ravage our economy by pushing state and local governments to the brink of bankruptcy.

he's from pakistan and a cardiologist in california. his fiancee left him before the marriage and claimed that he abused her to seek an immigration visa. his story is another example of how innocent americans are being victimized in regard to k-1 visa fraud. i'm going to ask you to stand and i'd like to give you an oath at this point. if you would raise your right hand. do you swear and affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? please be seated and we'll go in the order in which i introduce you. so would you start out, ms. lop lopez. >> thank you, mr. chairman, madam ranking member and other members of the judiciary committee. i was tricked by the love of my life. in 1998 i met a dutch man doing business in the united states. we immediately hit it off and we started dating long distance. we was romantic, kind and generous. during one of our many visits he proposed and pledged his love saying he wanted to grow old with me. neither of us had much money. i had just put myself through college and i

california, pakistan, london, new york, pakistan again, and i wanted to write about the experience of migration. and i also felt this resistance to migrants was growing and i wanted to write in response to that. >> brown: so saeed and nadia, the two young people in love, they see their city fall to pieces, the violence that we've all grown familiar with i guess from newscasts, right? they're experiencing first-hand. they leave, but they leave through these magical doors. and it's a little like the chronicle of narnia, right, which i read was one of your favorites as a child. >> that's right. >> brown: tell me about the doors, what are they? >> well, i think the doors sort of already exist. distance is collapsing in our world. we can travel by stepping into an airplane as i did coming from pakistan to america. we can skype or go on video calls with each other. and we can open up our phones and surf the internet and be in china or antarctica. and i think in our world distance really is collapsing. people are getting pushed together in new ways, and the doors are a slightly magical way o

through a metal implant police found he had surgery in pakistan.y combed flight records and finally found his name. he with and finally found his name. he with aa and finally found his name. he with a a private guy. he kept everybody departmentalised from each other, all of us. he learnt to do that from a young age. i adored david. he was very, very different. his family say they are not aware of any link he had to saddleworth moor. although we now know who he is, the reason why he went there and died remains a mystery. it's the opening day of the cheltenham festival and the winner of today's champion hurdle, the feature race, was a horse called buveur d'air which, translated into english, literally means ‘the air drinker‘. it's a fitting name given that for the first time the festival organisers have introduced alcohol restrictions to try to prevent drunken behaviour. 0ur sports correspondent, andy swiss, is there for us. andy. the fans here starting to make their way home. we are expecting around a quarter of a million this week, this, after all,

that province orders of pakistan and pakistan authorities say they've seen what's killed by a drone strike was originally from pakistan and the government had offered in $19,000 bounty for him. he is thought to have plotted the 2008 bombing in islamabad that was a massive bomb which killed dozens of people at the hotel. as with international and local people and among the dead were two american service members and several other ministers. yasin with the sri lankan cricket team. it highlights the crucial role the u.s. continues to play in that region. there are still a thousand or hundred u.s. troops in afghanistan. many are in training and advisory roles, but the pentagon is thought to be considering sending more u.s. forces. the country continues to be in favor of frequent insurgent attacks. u.s. defense secretary illustrates how important is to bring people to justice and many more hiding out in the same area of afghanistan. arthel: kitty logan, thank you. eric: a showdown on capitol hill a top democrats bowing to filibuster supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. republican leaders such as

they told her they were going to abduct or kidnap her family back in pakistan and she had to apologize. imran, an that's the individual that was doing computer work here for -- had done some for so many of our democratic friends here in the house, but he tried to manipulate her. she said to him, if you say you're my son why are you keeping my phone conversations listened to? so he said he would remove the devices, he came to the house, she saw him remove a couple, including under the kitchen counter. so it's interesting, we have these guys who members of congress said they don't need a background check. we can trust them. we're open minded. you know, they're muslim but we're not prejudiced. we don't even require a background check because we know we can trust them. we don't know what they did here in the house. but in their stepmother's house hey planted listening devices, apparently they knew where to get them. they knew how to use them. in the home. it still leads one to wonder, what all did they do during the 12 years they were working on computer systems here on capitol hill? and s

of spain, to take a 2—0 lead in the best—of—four—match series pakistan made a relatively modest 132et. in reply marlon samuels put on 44, but shadab khan gave another match—winning performance, claiming figures of 4—14. the hosts needed a boundary off the last delivery to win, but managed just a single, with the remaining two matches to be played at the same venue. a quick update on the miami masters quarterfinal, kyrgios has won the opening set by 6—4, and is currently ina opening set by 6—4, and is currently in a tie—break in the second set, and zverev has just taken it, so we are going to a third set in that match. i will let you know in the next 45 minutes or so. from me and the wonderful sport today team, goodbye. hi there. it was the warmest day of the year so far yesterday, with temperatures reaching 22 degrees celsius in the east, and 72 degrees fahrenheit. it wasn't warm and sunny everywhere. pulses of rain affecting north and western parts of the uk. the rain affecting this part of the country in the next 12 hours. the front very weak, though, as it goes south—east. the we

the bbc meets some of the victims of pakistan's illegal trade in human organs.ng of its new film beauty and the beast in malaysia. is it because of a controversy over gay character? the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 2a hours then the soviet union lost an elderly sick leader and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years his junior. we heard these gunshots in the gym. then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts. god, we were all petrified. james earl ray, aged 41, sentenced to 99 years and due for parole when he's 90, travelled from memphis jail to nashville state prison in an eight—car convoy. paul, what's it feel like to be married at last? it feels fine, thank you. what are you going to do now? is it going to change your life much do you think? i don't know really. i've never been married before. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. i'm babita sharma in london. our top stories: as the uk government gets the parliamentar

like, i was in pakistan.h a magical door to arrive sitting next to you. distance has collapsed in our world. so we are -- we are pressed close up against each other, through technology. but i wanted to focus on what happens before you move? you know, what leads someone to leave where they live? what's the enormous sorrow or pain, and then what happens when you get there, which is most of your life. crossing the rio grande or crossing that train, is a tiny little piece of that story. the real story is all of us, experience this -- this pain, before we move, and then something happens afterwards. >> seth: and i think that most of us do see it, only in that snapshot of the journey. i think when we think of refugees, we do think of people crammed onto a boat, or people trying to -- to cross a border. and it seems like you -- it mattered deeply to you to make these very realistic -- bring the humanity to these characters. >> yeah, because it's -- it's to see ourselves in these characters. so, say the characters in

. >>> pakistan has re-opened its border with afghanistan. the pakistani government blames insurgents have been hiding across the border. both countries have accused each other of not doing enough to stop militants. it's on the ro-- in mid-februar bombing killed more than 70 and wounded more than 150 in southern pakistan. that prompted the government to seal off the border. the reopening of border checkpoints was ordered on monday by the prime minister. for the past month, key trading routes for landlocked afghanistan had been shut off, stranding thousands of vehicle on both sides of the border. >>> it gives status as human living entitieentities. anyone harming either river will be viewed under the wall as if they had harmed a person. >> translator: according to india's ancient tradition and culture, the river ganges has long been considered a living river. it is mentioned in the holy books. the ruling by the high court as an impartial decisionmaker is absolutely correct. >> millions made pilgrimages to the ganges to bathe or scatter ashes o

it was pakistan against shellac and it went off without problems. it takes to stage a cricket match in lahore. 10,000 security personnel and three layers of checks on the way in the gadaffi stadium. international cricket has not been played here since 2009 when the sri la nka played here since 2009 when the sri lanka team were attacked by terrorists en route to a game. for cricket mad fans in the country, the chance to watch the final of the pakistan super league on their own soil, rather than in the united arab emirates, made the queueing worthwhile. it isn't a big moment for pakistan. a number of top players did not make the journey. they viewed as too risky. those who did come in keeping with the 2020 format, didn't hang around. cameron ahmed top scored with a0. arguably the man whose presence was most significant was the umpire. he was shot and injured significant was the umpire. he was shotand injured in significant was the umpire. he was shot and injured in the 2009 attack. by shot and injured in the 2009 attack. by the time he... at six wicke