The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Afghanistan is experiencing a "large influx" of returning refugees that is severely testing the country's ability to absorb so many displaced people.
Pakistan seems on track in 2017 for another year of just getting by. The country seems likely as in the recent past to avoid fully confronting its most challenging problems yet managing to do enough to avoid their becoming seriously worse.
Khuzdar has no hospital and no commercial flights into its airport, but government officials who recently visited the desert city in southwestern Pakistan are touting it as a future hub of commerce.
Afghan lawmakers have begun an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s rapidly disappearing forests.
Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar say strongmen and community leaders have grabbed nearly two-thirds of all government land in the region.
The proposed railway line from Turkmenistan to Tajikistan, via Afghanistan, marked a milestone on November 28 when the first station on the Afghan side of the Turkmen border opened.
The likely reopening of a major trade route with Afghanistan has brought joy to North Waziristan, a beleaguered tribal district in northwestern Pakistan.
Pakistan has ordered the deportation of 130 Turkish teachers at schools with alleged links to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed coup in July.
A humanitarian disaster marked by masses of returning refugees, internal displacement, insecurity, poverty, economic decline, and narcotics is looming in Afghanistan.
China’s massive One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project aims to connect the world like never before.
Calling Britain a committed and passionate champion of free trade, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is pitching for deeper business ties with India.
The first-ever institution of higher education is set to open in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal areas, where tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced by Taliban violence and military operations since 2004.
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