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.
Human rights campaigners say proposed reforms in Pakistan’s tribal areas still fall short of extending fundamental rights and establishing the rule of law in the restive region reeling from more than a decade of Taliban insurgency and Pakistani military operations.
The killing of a generation of lawyers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in a suicide attack has paused the wheels of justice in the vast region reeling from separatist and Islamist violence and a harsh military crackdown.
Independence Day fans discord over a controversial monarch who overthrew one of Afghanistan's heroes of independence.
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