Recent News: An attack inside a police compound in Peshawar, Pakistan, has left several dozen people dead and injured some 150 others. Responsibility was claimed by a faction of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant organization that opposes Pakistani security forces in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The group has stepped up attacks on security forces after negotiations with the government broke down in November.
Recent News: On January 26 Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians while carrying out a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin. The next day a Palestinian killed 7 Israelis outside a Jerusalem synagogue. The violence comes amid a 10-month-long crackdown on militants inside the West Bank and recent provocations by Israel s combative new government.
Subhas Chandra Bose, byname Netaji (Hindi: “Respected Leader”), (born c. January 23, 1897, Cuttack, Orissa [now Odisha], India died August 18, 1945, Taipei, Taiwan?), Indian revolutionary prominent in the independence movement against British rule of India. He also led an Indian national force from abroad against the Western powers during World War II. He was a contemporary of Mohandas K. Gandhi, at times an ally and at other times an adversary. Bose was known in particular for his militant approach to independence and for his push for socialist policies. The son of a wealthy and prominent Bengali lawyer, Bose studied at
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Persian Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelāb-e Eslāmi, also called Pasdaran, branch of the Iranian armed forces, independent of Iran’s regular army (the latter is sometimes called Artesh). Iran’s leader Ruhollah Khomeini established the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in April 1979 by decree and tasked it with safeguarding the Islamic republic that was formed after the Iranian Revolution (1978–79). The participation of the IRGC in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) led to the expansion of both its role and its might, making it Iran’s dominant military force, with its own army, navy, and air force and, later, its
Sheikh Hasina Wazed, byname Sheikh Hasina, Wazed also spelled Wajed, (born September 28, 1947, Tungipara, East Pakistan [now in Bangladesh]), Bengali politician and leader of the Awami League political party, who twice served as prime minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009– ).
Hasina was the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the principal orchestrator of Bangladesh’s separation from Pakistan in 1971. In 1968 she married M.A. Wazed Miah, an eminent Bengali scientist. While at the University of Dhaka in the late 1960s, she was active in politics and served as her father’s political liaison during his imprisonment by the Pakistani government. Hasina