Pakistan on July 7 ordered Shell Pakistan to pay at least $2.6 million in compensation after more than 200 people were killed when one of its tankers overturned and exploded in a devastating inferno last month.
Severe power cuts during the holy month of Ramadan, when most of Pakistan’s estimated 200 million Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, have prompted violent protests in the scorching temperatures of summer.
Afghanistan’s Taliban are bankrolling their violent campaign by taking a large cut from the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars that come from the illegal poppy crop grown in the regions they control.
At a time when the world is pouring money into renewable and clean energy, Pakistan is raising ire for its plan to boost urgently needed generating capacity through Chinese-funded coal-fired power plants.
Afghan farmers are opposing a government campaign to eradicate their poppy crops in the southern province of Kandahar.
Hundreds of underage girls selling pens, calendars, plastic bags, tissues, books, magazines, and chewing gum to passing cars. While afflicted by poverty and misfortune, they have to put up with constant harassment.
India is doubling-down on hydropower projects worth $15 billion in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir despite Pakistani warnings that the new power stations will disrupt water supplies.
Aid agencies in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region are struggling to provide services to help curb militancy and deliver aid because they lack government permission to operate, according to humanitarian organizations.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees, mostly from Pakistan and Iran, are returning to their homeland involuntarily, forced out by their former hosts. With no homes to return to, many find themselves crammed into makeshift camps outside the capital, Kabul. One returnee from Pakistan vividly describes the horrendous conditions that he and his family are forced to endure.
In the nearly four decades of various cycles of the Afghan war, few alliances are as baffling as Iran’s not-so-secret cooperation with the Afghan Taliban.
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.
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