Pakistan Is Trying to Integrate the ‘Most Dangerous Place’ on Earth. It’s Failing.
The country’s former tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are plagued by escalating militancy, leading to widespread ...
The Diplomat1d
Gender Apartheid: The Erasure of Afghanistan’s Women and Refugee Populations
Isabelle Lassee of Amnesty International and The Diplomat’s Catherine Putz discuss the state of gender apartheid in ...
bne IntelliNews on MSN1d
China sits on the Afghan–Pakistan fence, as the Uyghurs watch and wait
By bno - Taipei Bureau In early February, marking a visit to China by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the two nations ...
Asian Development Bank2d
Asia’s Glaciers are Melting Rapidly, but these 3 Steps can Save Lives and Infrastructure
The Hindu Kush Himalayas holds the world’s largest ice reserves outside the polar regions and extends 3,500 kilometers over Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the People’s Republic of China, India, ...
Human Rights Watch2d
Religious Freedom in Afghanistan: Three Years After the Taliban Takeover
The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...
Pakistan, Afghanistan open main border crossing, closed for nearly a month
Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday reopened their main border crossing after clashes between the security forces of both ...
Trade resumes as Pakistan and Afghanistan reopen key Torkham border crossing after nearly a month
Officials say trade between Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan has resumed Wednesday at a key border post following a dispute that turned into exchanges of gunfire.
Boston Review3dOpinion
Portrait of a Foreign Policy Failure
Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. Counterterrorism ...
Eurasianet8d
Environmental groups caution against overdevelopment of river resources in Central Asia
A CEE Bankwatch background report stressed that the evaporation of the Aral Sea was caused by extensive damming on the middle ...
Foreign Affairs10d
The Return of Spheres of Influence
The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...
The Washington Post10d
Rick Noack
security and society Rick Noack is The Washington Post's Afghanistan bureau chief, leading coverage of the legacy of America's longest war. He also covers developments in Pakistan. Previously at ...
BBC13d
Afghanistan
The women who fled the Taliban to study in Oman faced deportation after the Trump administration froze foreign aid. Ireland drop a multi-format home series against Afghanistan because of financial ...