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Source link www.rferl.org At the October 4 inauguration of a road built to Afghanistan’s border with China, Taliban officials faced a frosty reception from their eastern neighbor.Beijing did not send representatives or officially acknowledge the event and China’s militarized boundary remained firmly shut. Images from the inauguration showed Chinese ...

Source link www.rferl.org On Instagram, the storefront of a female-founded enterprise in Kabul looks like a world untouched by geopolitical upheaval.The video reels shared by Marwa, the store's owner who is in her early 20s, present a clean, organized gallery. Modern glass cases filled with traditional Afghan lapis lazuli, ...

Neha Bora, the president of the All India Students’ Association, was detained on Sunday while leading a protest march in Delhi.The Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP John Brittas was detained near Connaught Place. The party alleged that he was assaulted by the police. “He was later dropped by ...

Source link www.rferl.org Desperate to repay her mounting debts and feed her children, Zahira was forced to make a drastic decision.The mother of two from Afghanistan sold one of her kidneys on the black market last year. Even then, the decision did not lift her family out of crushing ...

Source link www.rferl.org Saudi Arabian allies Pakistan and Turkey are facing a major test just two months after signing a joint defense agreement as the rise of Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen test the deal, which says "any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be ...

Source link www.rferl.org Forty-year-old Hazrat Salam had never spent more than three days apart from his family. Now, after nearly two months away from home, his only wish is for the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to reopen so he can return to work at the crossing and be reunited with his ...

Source link www.rferl.org As wars and geopolitical tensions increasingly intersect, how close is the world to a much larger conflict?Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, an emeritus professor of international history at Oxford University and author of several books on war and international relations, spoke to RFE/RL’s Georgian Service about what ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistan carried out a round of air strikes on October 1 on two Afghan provinces near the border based on "credible evidence" of militant activity in the area.Following the strikes on the Kunar and Helmand provinces, Pakistan authorities claimed that 22 militants had been killed, while ...

India in action at Asian Games 2026, Day 12 LIVE Updates: India have fought back to level the men's squash semi-final against Malaysia, with Veer Chotrani securing a crucial victory. Meanwhile, wrestler Nitesh Siwach's gold medal bout in the Greco-Roman 97kg event will begin shortly. India marched into the Asian Games ...

Source link www.rferl.org Fatima keeps attending her classes at Bolan Medical College in Pakistan's Balochistan Province, but the third-year student from Afghanistan does not know how much longer she’ll be able to continue her studies."Today I don't have any problem, but I am always afraid that the government could ...