Pakistan is refuting claims by Indian security forces that they shot dead seven Pakistani soldiers along the disputed Kashmir border.
Tajikistan began joint antiterror drills with China on October 20 near the border with Afghanistan as part of Beijing's drive to boost security in the region.
State media reports in Uzbekistan say nine people, including six soldiers, have been killed in the crash of a military helicopter in the eastern part of the country.
A Kazakh businessman arrested as part of an alleged plot to overthrow the government has testified that he financially supported mass protests against the country's land privatization plans.
The five leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economies have ended a two-day summit with a pledge to speed global economic recovery as well as fight terrorism and extremism, forces that they said pose a threat to regional and international peace and stability.
Iran says it will begin taking applications on October 17 for an unspecified number of oil and natural gas projects, as the country hopes to attract foreign investors back to its energy sector after years of sanctions.
Turkmenistan will hold a presidential vote on February 12, state media reported on October 12.
Iranian media reports say Iranian security forces have arrested 11 people on suspicion of planning suicide bombings on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Kazakhstan's newly created Ministry of Religious Issues and Civil Society says it is taking steps to ban the Salafi branch of Islam in the country.
A prominent Kazakh journalist says he could not attend a high-profile trial in Kazakhstan because authorities summoned him regarding an old court ruling.
An independent Kazakh journalist says she has been attacked and robbed by an unknown assailant in the country's largest city, Almaty.
Prominent dissident Turkmen poet Shirali Nurmuradov has died in Sweden at the age of 71.
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