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Pakistan downgrades ties with India in deepening Kashmir row
Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)
India stripped the Himalayan region of its seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status on Monday through a contentious presidential decree, just hours after it imp...
Pentagon warns Turkey against attack on Kurds in Syria
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
"Clearly we believe any unilateral action by them would be unacceptable," Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters in Tokyo on a trip through Asia. "And so w...
China tells Kyrgyzstan to punish mine attackers
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
The rare diplomatic rebuke from Beijing followed a skirmish between mine employees and villagers living close to the Solton Sary gold deposit which is licensed ...
Pakistan premier vows to challenge India over Kashmir move
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
Khan gave a forceful rebuke of Prime Minister Narenda Modi's decision Monday to scrap the special status granted to the Indian-ruled part of Kashmir from India'...
Pakistan military 'firmly stands' by Kashmiris, says army chief
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
The army's top commanders met in the garrison city of Rawalpindi to discuss the move by India, which is also set to exacerbate the long-running bloody rebellion...
India hails 'historic' Kashmir rule as Pakistan, China slam move
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
New Delhi stripped Kashmir of its seven-decade-long autonomous status via a presidential decree on Monday, hours after imposing a massive security lockdown in t...
India warns China that Kashmir is 'internal matter'
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
India, Pakistan and China claim all or parts of the disputed Himalayan region, with New Delhi's announcement on Monday sparking a fierce response from its two n...
Uproar as India abolishes Kashmir's special autonomy
Aug 05, 2019 (AFP)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist party rushed through a presidential decree to scrap from the constitution the Indian-ruled part of the ...
India abolishes Kashmir's special autonomy
Aug 05, 2019 (AFP)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist party rushed through a presidential decree to scrap from the constitution the Indian-ruled part of the ...
Growing panic in Kashmir as India, Pakistan bicker over border clashes
Aug 04, 2019 (AFP)
Kashmir has surged back into the spotlight in recent days, just months after a deadly militant attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy claimed by a Pakistan-bas...
Afghanistan peace deal would see US troop numbers slashed: reports
Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)
The US and the Taliban are soon expected to begin their eighth round of talks in Doha to reach a deal that would end America's nearly 18-year involvement in Afg...
Trump touts Afghan peace 'progress' but warns can kill millions
Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)
"We've made a lot of progress. We're talking," Trump told reporters at the White House. Trump said that US forces, bogged down for nearly two decades, "could wi...
Raytheon tapped for Afghan air force maintenance training
Aug 01, 2019 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by Raytheon, has the company developing the Afghanistan Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Training, or AMT, program, under the U.S. Ar...
Uighurs challenge China to prove missing relatives are free
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
Rights groups and experts say more than one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have been rounded up in internment camps in the tightly-controlled northwest...
Pakistan evacuates Chineses nationals as firing in Kashmir kills three
Jul 31, 2019 (AFP)
The Chinese were working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelam and Jhelum rivers when firing pushed authorities to ...
Pakistan evacuates Chinese nationals as firing in Kashmir kills three
Jul 31, 2019 (AFP)
The Chinese were working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers when firing pushed authorities to ...
Afghan soldier killed two US troops: official
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
The US military on Monday said two of its troops had been killed in action in Afghanistan, but did not provide any additional details, pending notification of n...
China says 'most' inmates in Xinjiang camps are out
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
In Xinjiang, experts and human rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are held in a network of camps where they endu...
20 dead as violence mars Afghan election season start
Jul 29, 2019 (AFP)
At least 20 people were killed and 50 others wounded on Sunday in an attack targeting the Kabul office of Ghani's running mate, Amrullah Saleh. The violence cam...
Trial of Xinjiang-focused rights activist begins in Kazakhstan
Jul 29, 2019 (AFP)
Serikjan Bilash, a naturalised Kazakh citizen born in China, was detained in March before being placed under house arrest. The popular campaigner has helped spo...
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