KOHAT – At least 18 people, including policemen, women and children, were killed and more than...Islamia College Vice Chancellor kidnapped in Peshawar
PESHAWAR – Kidnappers seized the Vice Chancellor of Islamia College University in Peshawar out...Aisam Qureshi in US Open tennis semi-final
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi became the first-ever Pakistani to reac...TTP to continue attacking Pakistani forces
PESHAWAR – The Pakistani Taliban vowed to continue attacking the country’s security forces and...UN: Pakistan aid essential for global stability
NOWSHERA The world must help Pakistan rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by floods to win...ADB refuses extra $2 billion for flood-hit Pakistan
ISLAMABAD – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has abandoned plans to provide Pakistan an extra...3 school bombings in Peshawar, Khyber Agency
PESHAWAR – Two schools in Khyber Agency and another in Peshawar have been blown up during the...Afghan cricket team defeats Pakistan
KARACHI – The Afghanistan Youth Afghan Cricket Association (AYCA) won the final of the Dr. M.A...Orakzai Agency 90% cleared of militants, army says
ORAKZAI AGENCY – The Pakistani army claimed September 7 it has cleared nearly 90% of Orakzai A...Kazakhstan, Russia to develop Imashevsky gas field
ATYRAU OBLAST, Kazakhstan -- Kazakhstan and Russia have signed a pact to jointly explore and s...Osh riot participant gets 23-year sentence
OSH -- An Osh court has sentenced a participant in the June ethnic riots to 23 years in prison...Tajik guardsman killed in shootout with escapees
DUSHANBE -- A Tajik National Guardsman was killed September 7 in a shootout in eastern Tajikis...Turkmenistan to build $1.9 billion sports complex
ASHGABAT -- The Turkmen government announced September 4 plans to build a US $1.9 billion Olym...Kazakh-Russian tokamak produces first plasma
OSKEMEN, Kazakhstan -- A joint Kazakhstani-Russian tokamak has produced its first plasma, Kurc...OSCE deploys Kyrgyz election mission
BISHKEK -- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) opened its obs...
Pakistani children try to make the best of the aftermath of the flooding, searching for fish on the banks of the Khyali River in Charssadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. [Javed Khan]
On the night of July 28, on the outskirts of Makhachkala, Russia's Federal Security Servic...
Iranian police fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons to disperse ...
On July 30, the presidents of Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russian, in a meeting ...
The result of the July 28 game between champions Tajik Regar-TadAZ and Moscow's Locomotive...
On July 29 the Kyrgyz opposition began indefinite protests over the results of presidentia...
The leader of a criminal group that attacked law-enforcement officials in Tajikistan and p...
The leader of a criminal group that attacked law-enforcement officials in Tajikistan and p...
Pakistani Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim announced a three-year national trade ...
Tajik pilgrims planning to complete Hajj to Mecca this year must undergo mandatory immunis...
On July 30, Kyrgyzstan's Constitutional Court ruled that the results of the July 23 presid...
A July 17 ribbon cutting ceremony marked the grand opening of a new market in Khorog, a ci...
Last year, Kyrgyz police received more than 10,000 complaints from victims of domestic vio...
Tajikistan must switch to passports with biometric information next year to comply with In...
High profile trials against journalists at the end of July in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan sa...
Disabled people in Pakistan will receive special identity cards this month to enable them ...
Iran’s hardline rulers put 30 people arrested in the turbulent aftermath of the June 12 pr...
Paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of Gojra, an eastern Pakistani city, after Islam...
A parked police car was blown up on the southern edge of Dushanbe near a city market. The ...
The Pakistani Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the EU concluded a US$56.6 million proj...
Klychmurad Yarmamedov was awarded the title of Honourary Member of the Russian Academy of ...
The Samruk-Kazyna National Prosperity Fund in Kazakhstan is preparing to sack more workers...
Since the beginning of this year, Kazakh special services have seized more than two tonnes...
On July 29, the Irish government announced that it will take in two Uzbek Guantanamo priso...
The Global Fund granted Pakistan US$25 million for the control of tuberculosis, National M...
In a voice barely above a whisper, I.H. stared at his feet as he recounted how the Taliban...
A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) team and the Federal Investigation Agency (FI...
Less than 10 percent of disabled children in Sogdi region have access to education....
On July 30, the Samarkand region’s Taylak District Court sentenced independent journalist ...
The Coca-Cola Brigades Rally, which the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) cit...
On July 31, unidentified assailants stabbed Tashkent's top imam, Anvar-kori Tursunov, nine...
After the Mumbai bomb blasts last November, Indian print and electronic media directly cri...
These days everyone can behold how street walls and public places are covered with posters...
"We will support the Afghan people for as long as it takes," said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, w...
On July 3, a court in Astana deemed a series of religious publications extremist and banne...
A July 31 ceremony marked the opening of Sangtuda hydroelectric station 1 on the Vakhsh Ri...
Pakistan has armed and appointed the first community police in Swat valley to help prevent...
Tajikistan’s mass media leaders and journalists appealed for government support in respons...
The Pakistani livestock and dairy farming sectors will soon receive a boost from Australia...
Pakistan has gained a dominant position in the cement industry and exported 11 million ton...
A large shipment of heroin bound for Russia was seized on Aug. 4 on the Sogda railroad. Th...
The Tajik Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) announced that it completed a counterterroris...
Tajik women trafficked in Arab countries are sent there through other countries. Tajikista...
On Aug. 1, the presidents of Russia and Kyrgyzstan concluded an agreement for the construc...
Pakistan’s Bait-ul-Mal fund and aid group under the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special...
By 2050, Uzbekistan may become the second most populated Commonwealth of Independent State...
Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a bill Aug. 5 to discourage domestic violence against ...
Kyrgyzstan's civil rights activists are up in arms over the Bishkek municipal administrati...
Two European cyclists are riding 16,000km from Oslo to Beijing, raising funds en route to ...
A Karchi court is conducting a trial of 11 people accused of participating in extremist re...
Pakistan's Taliban chief, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed by a CIA missile strike, a militant...
To date, 26 people with symptoms of hemorrhagic fever have been hospitalised in Tursunzade...
Karachi University will start exporting flowers to Gulf countries next month to generate r...
A number of leading Kyrgyz human rights organisations are gravely concerned by growing gov...
The Asian Development Bank granted Tajikistan US$60 million, and will soon provide $74 mil...
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Hakimullah Mehsud and Taliban commander Wali-ur-...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki promised to pursue the implementation of sentences is...
The “Afghanistan’s Economic Development” trade fair held recently at the Borbad complex in...
For the first time, leather exports and associated products from Pakistan have dropped bel...
In the Uzbekistan Football Cup final championship match, Pakhtakor triumphed over Bunyodko...
On Aug. 2, those who died in the 1916 armed uprisings of Central Asian peoples against the...
Schools in Tajikistan will offer a secular course on Islam starting Sept. 1....
More than 2,500 athletes from 45 Asian countries competed in the 2009 Asian Combat Sports ...
Al Qaeda wants to install one of its commanders to succeed Pakistan’s Taliban chief Baitul...
On Aug. 10, an Uighur society in Kyrgyzstan held an unauthorised demonstration devoted to ...
Three Tajik teachers caught taking bribes in the middle of entrance exams had criminal cas...
Hundreds of excited music fans queue up to attend Afghanistan's premier pop music TV event...
As part of its humanitarian initiative with Afghanistan, the government of Turkmenistan ha...
Control, monitoring, testing and commissions have long been an integral part of life in Uz...
The winner of Star Academy 4 held two sold out concerts in Baghdad, paying an emotional fi...
Fierce clashes between Taliban fighters and those loyal to a pro-government tribal leader ...
The Interdepartmental Council on Religion was converted to the Coordinating Council to Pre...
The Canadian company Tethys Petroleum Ltd. is drilling in the Komsomolskoye petroleum fiel...
An interview with the actress Resham whose success in the Pakistani film industry led to h...
On Aug. 11, human rights activists, media rights campaigners and journalists in Almaty cal...
Smuggled from Afghanistan and Iran, countries that allow duty free auto imports, the most ...
Talks between Kazakhstan and China on the sharing of trans-border river water resources ha...
The Seismology Institute of Kyrgyzstan's Academy of Sciences has launched a project to pro...
With eyes on the vast floriculture market outside, Pakistan has set up model flora farms i...
Pakistani officials said military strikes on Taliban bases in north-west tribal areas Aug....
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson granted funds to the Punjab Archaeology Depa...
A Tajik mountain climber reached the summit of Ozodi in the Pamir Mountains, raised the Ta...
The joint military exercise was the result of cooperation between Tajikistan's armed force...
On Aug. 14, Pakistan celebrated its 62nd year as a free nation and marked the Independence...
Almost 100 women from the Kyrgyz village of Nura blocked the Osh-Erkechtam highway. They d...
Three candidates in the Afghan presidential election, including incumbent President Hamid ...
For many days now, everybody in Afghanistan has been anticipating the second presidential ...
The International Trade Centre (ITC) recently launched a project to fund US$3.66 million i...
On Aug. 10, the Kazakh Muslim Spiritual Authority opened its first post-secondary madrasa ...
Security forces have captured the Pakistani Taliban's top spokesman in an operation near t...
Kyrgyzgaz Deputy General Director Kuban Myrzakanov said talks between Bishkek and Tashkent...
Tajikistan refused to extradite former Kyrgyz Defense Ministry officer Mukhammadi Salimzod...
Although President Hamid Karzai remains the favorite to win Thursday’s presidential electi...
The trial of five members of the religious extremist organisation Tablighi Jamaat has conc...
Less than one percent of Afghanistan's polling stations are at risk of being attacked by i...
Voters in Afghanistan go to the polls Aug. 20 to decide whether to re-elect President Hami...
Pakistani banks reported that deposits during the first quarter of 2009 increased by US$92...
Broadcasting by Tajik private radio station Today has been cut off for the third time in t...
Ample rainfall is usually good news for farmers and professional agriculture, but dependin...
On Aug. 16, an auto accident in Almaty Region’s Karasai district, on the road from the Alm...
It was a good year for Turkmen winemakers at the 2009 Yalta/Golden Griffin international c...
Journalists and UN workers report that voting is underway despite sporadic violence....
Sporadic attacks hit Afghan towns as polls opened on Aug. 20 for an anxiously awaited pres...
Sporadic attacks hit Afghan towns as polls opened on Aug. 20 for an anxiously awaited pres...
UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Kai Eide visited the polling stations in Kabul a...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has bought a 25 percent plus o...
Early this month, new trade and service regulations were implemented in Uzbekistan. Compan...
Five years ago, high turnout in Afghanistan’s Pashtun belt helped carry Hamid Karzai to th...
A South Kazakhstan provincial district court convicted five employees of a branch of the K...
Tajikistan's Ministry of Finance intends to increase gold production at the Shugnob gold m...
A summer rehabilitation camp for victims of anti-personnel landmines has opened in Varzob ...
For nearly 200 Turkmen students, the start of this academic year means studying in another...
Kazakhstan will soon have a Computer Reaction Service that will control Kaznet, the Kazakh...
The Afghan government and the principal opposition candidate declared the country's second...
Truck art in Pakistan offers insights into regional trends and the aesthetics of different...
This year, Tajikistan hopes to bring its own bread to the table. According to Ministry of ...
Memorial services, expressions of condolence and special programmes across the country mar...
The State Bank of Pakistan has reduced the discount rate by 100 basis points (one percent)...
Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus called on Uzbekistan President I...
More than 2,000 Afghan citizens temporarily living in Tajikistan were unable to vote in th...
In Pakistan, many HIV cases go unreported or even undiagnosed because of the high cost of ...
The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued an order on Pakistan’s Independence Day to stop the sal...
Uzbekistan's national airline will spend US$1.13 billion to purchase 16 Boeing and Airbus ...
The Tajik Customs Service received specialised drug detection equipment under the EC Coope...
Pakistan’s population has grown by more than 110 million in just five decades. To curtail ...
On Aug. 18, internationally respected NGO Human Rights Watch demanded that Uzbek authoriti...
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) directed domestic banks to provide US$3 billion worth of ...
Hundreds of Turkmen students are being prevented from leaving the country, and students he...
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov wants audits conducted to avoid fraud by bank executiv...
Political parties in the autonomous province of Gorno-Badakhshan fear that winter conditio...
The struggle between Pakistan’s Taliban leadership intensified as members of the militant ...
In Kyrgyzstan, as elsewere in the Muslim world, the holy month of Ramadan has begun. This ...
Jahan Bairamova and Igor Barzasekov from Ashgabad took gold and bronze respectively at the...
The Uzbek government is continuing to strengthen its border in the Fergana Valley, the mos...
On Aug. 24, Kazakhstan's financial police announced the arrest of Jomart Yertayev and Alek...
The U.S. government provided Tajikistan funds to reconstruct border posts in Kulma and Kaz...
The leading candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election have both claimed victory, b...
By order of the Tajik Agricultural Minister, university students will not be called on to ...
It is crucial to document local traditions and historical sites in Pakistan that are rapid...
The Ajoka Theatre, in collaboration with ‘Rising Pakistan’ and the Lahore Arts Council, la...
Two cases of the A/H1N1 virus have been detected in Kazakhstan. Both patients are out of d...
The simultaneous detonations of five car bombs in Kandahar, Afghanistan, destroyed the off...
Tajikistan’s manufacturing sector continues to contract. Production was 15 percent lower f...
Sindh Province’s government has approved a joint venture with Engro Pakistan to explore an...
On Aug. 25, the government of Kyrgyzstan ordered the immediate start of construction of a ...
Islam can help combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, according to writers of the “HIV/AIDS from a...
A Kyrgyz human rights organisation has called for immediate reform of the special services...
The Pakistan government launched a new initiative on Aug. 22 to double the amount of money...
Ulan Melisbek, the new administrator of ‘.kg’, the Kyrgyzstan national internet domain, an...
A suicide bomber killed 22 Pakistani border guards on Aug. 27 in an attack at the main cro...
A new railroad bridge has been built across the Amudarya, the largest river in Central Asi...
The Afghan army has taken direct control of security in the southern city of Kandahar afte...
The construction of a rail line connecting Uzbekistan with Mazar-e Sharif, a major city in...
Workers from the Rogun branch of OAO Sangtudin HES-1 have appealed to the Tajik Prosecutor...
The Asian Development Bank has given Uzbekistan two loans, one for US$15 million and anoth...
On Aug. 27, Uzbekistan closed its border with neighbouring Tajikistan and says it will rem...
A new education law has come into effect in Turkmenistan, the third such legislative initi...
Oxford University researchers claim the ‘Garden of Eden’ apple originated in the wild orch...
A year has passed since the start of the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia, but t...
A new Taliban code of conduct presents a list of dos and don’ts, including conditions for ...