Faced with growing public discontent, Kazakhstan's government has shifted into high gear to head off antigovernment protests planned for May 21. Since May 16, authorities have been moving to detain people who could inspire or facilitate the planned nationwide demonstrations.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has defended his financial record and asked parliament to form a commission to investigate allegations stemming from the Panama Papers leak.
Tens of thousands of minority Shi’ite Hazara are marching in the Afghan capital to protest the path of a multimillion dollar power line project.
Hazara minority leaders say a decision to reroute an electricity power line away from their home province could mean an ‘end to cooperation’ in the power-sharing government.
After cooperating with the United States and its NATO allies in stabilizing Afghanistan for more than a decade, there are signs now that Moscow is opening a new front against Washington in Afghanistan following its actions in Syria and Ukraine.
Pakistan has accused U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of being "ignorant" for demanding the release of a doctor who was jailed for helping the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden in 2011.
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.
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