Zalmay Khalilzad, a key figure in U.S. President George W. Bush’s war against terrorism, says Islamabad’s support of the Afghan Taliban after the demise of their regime in 2001 is the ‘mother of all problems’ confronting Afghanistan today.
In a repeat of the country’s checkered history, the Pakistani military and civilian leadership appear to be at loggerheads over power with the former using corruption to force the latter out of office.
U.S. prosecutors said the daughter of Uzbekistan’s president and several associates failed to comply with a court order to turn over more than $500 million held in Swiss banks as part of a long-running money-laundering investigation.
Amnesty International is accusing Moscow of "lending a helping hand" to torture in Uzbekistan by aiding in the forcible returns of hundreds of Uzbek nationals from Russia.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have attacked an office of the country's main security agency in Kabul, killing at least 28 people and wounding about 300 more.
At least two explosions have been reported in Kabul's diplomatic area, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left the Afghan capital following an unannounced visit during which he called on the Taliban to restart direct peace talks with the government.
With the Russian economy in tatters, figures for remittances in 2015 from the millions of Central Asian citizens working in Russia have been published for the five states in Central Asia and they showed what many had feared.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan in an attempt to defuse a growing political crisis fueled partly by a national unity deal he brokered after the disputed presidential election in 2014.
Despite a plummeting approval rating, allies of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani say their leader is capable of handling multiple political and security challenges and the debate over the Loya Jirga assembly is a bid by opponents to further destabilize the national unity government.
Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after it was linked to offshore wealth holdings in the massive Panama Papers scandal.
One of Pakistan's most conservative politicians, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has become an unlikely torch-bearer for reform in the deeply religiously conservative country.
Narendra Modi engages Saudi Arabia as part of diplomatic offensive against Pakistan by forging ties with some of the Indian arch rival’s closest allies
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