In a move likely to aggravate already tense relations between the two neighbors, India is accelerating its building of new hydropower plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a notorious warlord and wartime-era prime minister, has signed a peace deal with the Afghan government. The prospective return of the "Butcher of Kabul" has opened old wounds in the capital.
Indian support for a simmering separatist struggle in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan is unlikely to radically alter the conflict in the resource-rich and strategically located restive region.
In a move likely to roil the rapidly deteriorating relations between New Delhi and Islamabad, an exiled separatist leader from Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has decided to apply for asylum in India.
With the death of Uzbek President Islam Karimov earlier this month, the question of who will succeed Central Asia's other longstanding rulers has come to the fore. (The views expressed on this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
A separatist faction in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has called on India to intervene in the simmering conflict in the region. In 1971, Bangladesh emerged after Indian forces defeated the Pakistani military to end a gruesome civil war.
Ahmad Masud was 12 years old when his father, the legendary anti-Taliban military commander known as the "Lion of Panjshir," was killed by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in northern Afghanistan on September 9, 2001.
A former U.S. government adviser has offered a positive prognosis for Afghanistan despite the ongoing escalation in violence and infighting within its national unity government.
The Afghan government is facing what could be an existential crisis as the stated deadline approaches on a power-sharing deal between its rival president and chief executive.
With Russia and Islamic State complicating the conflict in Syria, the role of Iran in this quagmire has been largely overlooked, even though it has supported President Bashar al-Assad since almost the moment his brutal crackdown on demonstrators turned mass protest into a civil war.
In a country whose government kept silent for nearly a week after announcing that its only post-Soviet leader was in the hospital with an undisclosed ailment, it's tough to read the tea leaves about who might come to power in the wake of President Islam Karimov.
Recent sympathetic comments by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have annoyed supporters of a simmering separatist insurgency in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan because they appear to confirm Islamabad’s views that New Delhi is behind the nationalist rebellion.
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