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.
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.
Billions of dollars in Chinese investments billed to transform Pakistan’s destiny have run into fresh controversies, threats, and opposition.
It has been 15 years since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan with the immediate goal of capturing Al-Qaeda leaders responsible for 9/11, ending terrorist activities on Afghan soil, and removing the Taliban from power. Here are some key indicators from the war that ensued.
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg tells RFE/RL that NATO will continue its presence in Afghanistan in support of the Afghan security forces as the country seeks to negotiate peace with various militant groups and build an economically viable future.
Senior officials from world powers attending at a donors conference in Brussels have pledged more than $15 billion in aid for Afghanistan during the next four years.
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
The residents of a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan are attempting to rebuild their homeland after enduring years of terrorist tyranny and displacement by military operations.
Many Afghans who recently left Pakistan because of police brutality and government pressure are now discovering their war-torn homeland is not welcoming, either.
Thousands of laid-off foreign workers are refusing to leave labor camps after being denied wages for months amid poor conditions as the Saudi government defends its offer of free flights home.
Cumbersome mandatory Pakistani security clearances are preventing thousands of immigrant workers from visiting their families in the country’s restive western tribal areas.
Turkmenistan is apparently having enormous economic problems. The country's system is so opaque that it is always difficult to know much about what is going on there. But the recent decision to scrap the two entities that were overseeing the oil and gas sector and to restructure the management of that industry give the impression that the authorities in Ashgabat are getting desperate.
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