South Asia

This is a step in the right direction and appears to have come under pressure from the international community.

Investment on infrastructure has been hiked by 35 percent over last year, indicating that this sector is the government’s first-choice job creator.

Their friendship may be doing well rhetorically, but Islamabad’s reliance on Chinese money is creating complications for Pakistan.

The town, which played an important role in India’s history, is the site of fiercely fought communal politics.

Many fighters lack education and training to make the shift to civilian life.

Simplistic narratives fail to account for the complexities that have defined foreign policy in Sri Lanka since its independence.

Despite promises of amnesty, the U.N. says members of the former Afghan government have been killed extrajudicially by the Taliban.

Cricket-playing countries have been reluctant to play in Pakistan since a 2009 attack on a visiting team's bus. But the game must go on.

Pakistan needs to be saved from those that rule it, and especially from those want to rule it forever.

It is projected to grow 8-8.5 percent in the coming fiscal year.

That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently of the language’s rich history.

While Afghanistan’s mineral riches are often depicted as a way out of aid dependency, Afghan miners continue to face problems in realizing those dreams.