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According to reports from Kabul, Taliban militants have killed one of four civilians they had kidnapped earlier in the Jaghatu district of Ghazni province. Hassan Reza Yousufi, a member of provincial council said Sunday that these civilians were kidnapped by Taliban in the Qeyaq valley. One of them was a university student named Ali Javid, whose body was found, according to Yousufi, who had no information about three others. Provincial police spokesman Ahmad Khan Sirat also confirmed the murder of one of the four kidnapped civilians. Taliban have not yet commented on the incident. Taliban fighters repeatedly target government employees and university students in different districts of Ghazni province of Afghanistan.

News   >   World   >   Asia Muslim woman describes torture and beatings in China detention camp: ‘I begged them to kill me’ ‘Each time I was electrocuted, my whole body would shake violently and I would feel the pain in my veins,' says Mihrigul Tursun Harry Cockburn Wednesday 28 November 2018 17:39   Click to follow The Independent A  Uighur   Muslim  woman has said she was tortured and abused at an internment camp where the Chinese government is detaining hundreds of thousands of people from religious minorities. Mihrigul Tursun, 29, told reporters in Washington she was interrogated for four days in a row without sleep, had her hair shaved, was electrocuted and was subjected to an intrusive medical examination following her second arrest in  China in 2017. After she was arrested a third time, the treatment grew worse. “I thought that I would rather die than go through this...