Weekly happenings in South Asia region | 12 Feb, 2022 | Newsweek South Asia - #NWSA Episode

Narco-terror is becoming a big threat not only in terms of sustenance of terrorist activities but also in terms of its impact on youth in Jammu & Kashmir. The recent months have witnessed major narcotic smuggling attempts in India’s Union territory from Pakistan. Just a few days ago, security forces seized 45 kilograms of heroin at two separate border areas of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan’s never-ending nightmare of blasphemy law has a new victim — a Hindu school principal Nautan Lal. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court over charges of blasphemy in Pakistan's southern Sindh province. Lal was arrested in September 2019 after an intermediate student of the public school in Ghotki district alleged that the teacher had committed blasphemy against the Prophet