South Asia

The catastrophic floods this summer worsened Pakistan's already severe menstrual health problems. Yet few are willing to even discuss the issue.

The decision will hurt the regime’s efforts to win recognition from foreign governments and international donors.

It is a controversial issue in Indian politics as minorities and opposition parties see it as a vehicle for Hindu majoritarianism.

Out: depictions of living things, human rights, foreign inventors, and elections. In: the “seeds of hatred against Western countries” and the rest of the Taliban’s core ideology. 

Fears of China occupying Diego Garcia have no basis in reality and should not be a pretext for Britain retaining control of the islands.

Among its contentious clauses is one that grants blanket exemption to central investigative agencies on the grounds of national security.

India’s National Crime Records Bureau is building what could be among the world's largest facial recognition systems.

Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring is deeply embedded both within a global emerging market debt crisis and a moment of rethinking within China about its global role as a creditor. 

In addition to taking around ten policemen hostage, the militants have snatched weapons and taken control of the facility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

But will it succeed in persuading the world that India is a perpetrator of terrorism in the region rather than a victim?

Political calculations rather than security imperatives seem to underlie the Awami League government’s decision.

While India’s foreign minister described Pakistan as the “epicenter of terrorism,” his Pakistani counterpart labeled the Indian PM as “the butcher of Gujarat.”