Three annual poppy harvests in Afghanistan’s most dangerous province are creating a bonanza for the Taliban, helping to boost their war coffers as they engage in one of their most violent annual campaigns.
Amid a harsh government crackdown on Afghan exiles, Islamabad has agreed to allow millions of Afghan refugees to live in the country for six more months.
Kabul was booming until foreign troops left Afghanistan in 2014. Now the city is strapped with a burgeoning population and a faltering economy.
Despite what their governments might say, citizens around the world are overwhelmingly open to the idea of helping refugees.
Authorities in one of Pakistan’s most underdeveloped provinces, where millions of children are still unable to go to school, have even failed to spend their annual budgetary allocation for education.
Tens of thousands of minority Shi’ite Hazara are marching in the Afghan capital to protest the path of a multimillion dollar power line project.
Hazara minority leaders say a decision to reroute an electricity power line away from their home province could mean an ‘end to cooperation’ in the power-sharing government.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Central Asia-South Asia electricity transmission project, known as CASA-1000, is set for next week in Tajikistan, although questions remain about it and a regional gas pipeline.
One topic guaranteed to inflame passions in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan is land and China. China has taken land from Central Asia and farmers from China are already working rented fields in Central Asia and that has not sat well with locals.
The European Union’s special envoy in Afghanistan says the rampant illegal extraction of Afghanistan’s precious natural resources is the second-biggest revenue source for insurgents and is helping further fan the war in the country.
Freedom House just released its annual Nations In Transit (NIT) report, an indispensable look at the human rights situation in 29 countries, including all five Central Asian states.
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
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