Experts and scholars hope to enlist imams in bid to spread awareness on climate change issues, saying the influence of religious leaders could help people address the environmental impact of their daily lives
Unemployment is leading youth in southern Afghanistan to question whether the time, effort and money they invested in getting education was worth the trouble after some are unable to find work years after graduation.
Leaked documents detail corruption and mafia-style monopoly of warlords and officials in the illegal extraction and smuggling of lapis lazuli, which deprives Afghanistan of millions of dollars of revenue as country’s natural resources are exploited.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani arrived in Islamabad on March 25 as neighboring Iran and Pakistan seek to boost trade ties.
Many Afghans who left home to pursue their dreams of a better life in the West have returned home, disillusioned with the lack of prospects they found in Europe.
Thousands of soldiers, police deployed to protect new Gwadar trade route as country’s economy will rely heavily on its success
Money troubles and a military stretched by war in Syria and Ukraine have prompted Russia to reverse plans to send more troops to Tajikistan -- despite what Kremlin officials say is a growing threat from Islamic militants across the border in Afghanistan.
An international monitoring group says people around the world demonstrated to governments in 2015 that they must become more transparent and tackle the large-scale corruption that continues to plague so many countries and hinder their development.
As a landlocked backwater in the heart of Asia, Afghanistan has attracted war and conflict during the past two centuries. A series of major infrastructure and energy projects now underway could revive its historic role as a regional hub for trade and transport.
Residents of a coastal town in southwestern Pakistan are angry over Chinese plans to transform their impoverished hometown into a 21st-century trade and transport hub.
In an effort to win the support of politicians from minority provinces for multibillion-dollar Chinese investments, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has inaugurated a major road in a remote southwestern region.
An Afghan businessman has been charged with bribing U.S. soldiers to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. supply contracts in a major U.S. court case targeting corruption during the war in Afghanistan.
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