Terrorism, radicalisation gravest threats facing world, says India's Defence minister

South Asia Newsline - June 16,  2021 News Bulletin :-
-Terrorism, radicalisation gravest threats facing world, says India's Defence minister at key ASEAN meet
-Afghanistan hospitals close doors to new patients as Covid-19 surges
- Over a dozen killed as flash floods wreak havoc in Nepal and Bhutan
Chief Minister of Indian capital New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that his government will train 5,000 youths as health assistants as part of a plan to deal with a possible "third wave" of COVID-19. Terrorism and radicalisation are the gravest threats to peace and security that the world is facing today, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in  a virtual address at the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus on Wednesday. A massive protest erupted in Pakistan-administered Kashmir recently demanding the rollback of a job regularisation law, which the protesters called discriminatory, exclusionary and suppressive. The protesters accused the government of nepotism and corruption. A Pakistani court has adjourned till October 5 the hearing of a government’s plea to appoint a counsel for Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav on request of the country’s top law officer. The Islamabad High Court also issued notice to the counsel of the Indian High Commission to appear before the court on the next date of hearing. Afghanistan is grappling with a third wave of the pandemic, with a record number of infections and deaths being reported. The two main hospitals treating people with COVID-19 in Afghanistan have had to close their doors to new patients because of a lack of beds, a senior health official and doctors said on Monday. As the annual monsoon season begins in Nepal, floods and multiple landslides inflicted heavy damage and killed at least seven people on Wednesday while several were reportedly missing. Meanwhile, flash floods also washed away a remote mountain camp in neighboring Bhutan, killing at least 10 people. Nepal Police arrested members of a student union affiliated with opposition Nepali Congress party on Tuesday as they held an anti-government protest, denouncing the dissolution of the Parliament in May.