Kyrgyzstan appears set to define marriage in an attempt to bar same-sex marriages.
Hina Rabbani Khar served as Pakistan’s foreign minister from 2011 to 2013. She urged Islamabad to revive their administration’s foreign policy approach of maintaining good relations with neighboring countries.
Uzbekistan’s Central Election Commission says that acting President Shavkat Mirziyaev has won the December 4 presidential election with 88.6 percent of the vote.
Polls have closed in Uzbekistan, where voters are choosing who will be the country’s next president after Islam Karimov, the autocrat who ruled the Central Asian nation for a quarter-century until his death three months ago.
Some prominent dissidents are cautiously optimistic that Shavkat Mirziyaev will bring reforms to beleaguered Uzbekistan, but they're also nearly all still in exile.
Massive cash shortages in India due to the unprecedented move to scrap high value currency notes have hit hard millions of poor people whose earnings and savings are in cash.
Afghan officials say leaders of the Taliban insurgency continue to operate out of hideouts and safe havens in neighboring Pakistan.
Dissidents who run afoul of the authorities in Central Asia face two choices: wait until they come for you, or run. But even if these people manage to flee their homeland, many will still not be left in peace abroad.
Afghanistan denounced as “improper and provocative” a unilateral flag-lowering ceremony Pakistan recently introduced at a main border crossing with its western neighbor.
More than 100 Turkish teachers facing deportation from Pakistan confront an uncertain fate, as they are unwilling to go back to their homeland, where the government has purged thousands of teachers.
A court in Pakistan has temporarily halted the deportation of Turkish teachers from PakTurk International Schools. Despite the November 23 ruling, many of the school's Turkish staff are preparing to leave Pakistan anyway and bid an emotional goodbye at a farewell ceremony. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
The Turkmen village of Marchak is situated close enough to the Afghan border that stray rounds are landing on their side of the frontier, according to residents. But it would be difficult for the villagers to receive much help from the government in Ashgabat because their problems apparently do not officially exist.
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