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.
As Turkey cracks down hard on perceived enemies like the Gulen movement at home, it also looks set to escalate the controversy over the global Islamic education movement by pressing other countries to follow suit.
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.
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