Calling Britain a committed and passionate champion of free trade, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is pitching for deeper business ties with India.
Turkmenistan marked its 25th year of independence on October 27 and -- while life has always been hard for the some 5 million people in the isolationist, authoritarian state -- this year’s anniversary was marked amid declining economic conditions the likes of which the country has never seen.
The Afghan Taliban are facing unprecedented internal struggles and external pressures amid their biggest military push to seize the country.
The thing the governments in Central Asia fear the most is religion. Secular opposition there has been nearly eliminated and in its place religious opposition has appeared.
The mayor of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has pledged to publicize the names of those who apply for divorces in an attempt to keep married couples together.
A Kyrgyz family had to bury a mother three times in different cemeteries over her choice of faiths, highlighting an all-too-common discrepancy between law and local practice.
Why should Turkmen voters show up at polling centers on February 12 to cast their ballots for the current president, the person they called "Arkadag" (The Protector)? I am not Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's speechwriter, but I am concerned he might miss some things in the campaign speeches he delivers. So I wrote one for him.
Beijing springs to longtime ally Islamabad's defense after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi branded Pakistan a ‘mother ship of terrorism’ at a recent international summit.
The cotton business in Uzbekistan rides on the back of slave labor. Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest is possible because, every year, hundreds of thousands of the country’s citizens are forced into the fields.
The Caspian Sea has long been a potential solution to Central Asia's water problems and now officials in Kazakhstan's southwestern Mangistau Province are preparing to harness this resource by building a water purification plant.
A mother in Uzbekistan lost her baby during childbirth because her doctors were away picking cotton during the country's annual forced-labor harvest season.
A Pashtun leader who had questioned Pakistani military operations in his North Waziristan homeland has been assassinated in southeastern Afghanistan, where he had been living in exile for more than two years.
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