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]
A bike ride from Oslo to Beijing by two European cyclists to help young people in Tajikist...
Bombings targeted a Pakistani police station and set a NATO fuel convoy ablaze on Aug. 30,...
On Aug. 29, UK Prime Minister Brown promised more help to fight the Taliban, but Ministry ...
On Aug. 25, Oksana Makushkina, deputy editor of the Republic Business Review, said the new...
Speaking in Astana on Aug. 27, U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Ric...
To remove water contaminants from Rawal Lake, Pakistan’s Water and Sanitation Agency plans...
Electric guitars, computerised keyboards and drum kits are in great demand these days, whi...
Several Central Asian republics plan a series of changes to their school systems with the ...
A proposal by Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Uktomkhan Abdullayeva to legalise the col...
On Aug. 29, a skirmish between police and unidentified armed individuals took place in the...
Woodwork is a time-honoured craft that needs support to fully realise its potential....
The Supreme Court trial of four Tajik citizens charged with being members of the Al-Qaeda ...
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will permit micro-finance banks (MBFs) to provide mortgag...
Before it can start negotiating next year’s petrol prices with Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan must...
The Kyrgyz government has revised the list of conditions under which pregnancies can be te...
A resident of the Kyrgyz village of Petrovka was sentenced to 20 years for the sexual assa...
All new petrol-driven vehicles, both imported and locally assembled, will comply with ‘Eur...
Pakistan’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme provides most poor patients free t...
The 2.3km Shar-Shar auto tunnel linking Tajikistan and China opened to traffic on Aug. 30....
A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Wednes...
The largest public building in Central Asia, the Uzbekiston International Convention Centr...
Despite the release of a ‘Code of Conduct’ in July that forbids violence against civilians...
The Kyrgyz Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Monitoring is recommending against u...
The international celebrity arrived Aug. 31 for filming in Shymkent and will star in a new...
Officials from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany issued a ...
Israel's U.S. ambassador and leaders of the Orthodox and Reform movements joined U.S. Pres...
The Kyrgyz government has begun to implement major reforms announced by President Kurmanbe...
Tashkent, Central Asia's largest city and Uzbekistan's capital, marked what was called its...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Gilani announced autonomy for the Northern Areas on Aug. 29. The...
Straw-made crafts are very popular in Pakistan, especially “chiks,” which are substitutes ...
The Kyrgyz government has launched reforms in the country's health care system. By the end...
The number of prisoners who support the underground Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir – banned ...
The World Boxing Championships in Milan, Italy run through Sept.12. Approximately 700 athl...
On Aug. 31, Turkmen President Berdymukhamedov announced the nation will build a naval base...
The art of pottery-making in Pakistan is giving way to the influx of mass produced metal, ...
A Qatari investment company Aug. 27 unveiled a US$180 million project, Diyori Dushanbe, th...
Human Rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis has been sentenced to four years imprisonment, a ver...
Naval forces from 15 countries began a joint operation against high-seas predators in the ...
Extortion in schools is directly tied to the growth of a criminal influence in the student...
NATO is investigating a controversial airstrike on two fuel tankers in northern Afghanista...
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime claims that the cultivation and production of opium in Ag...
The National Vocational and Technical Education Commission released US$4.3 million to tech...
Almost a week after a clash between law enforcement agencies and terrorists on the eve of ...
On Sept. 1, Central Asia's schoolchildren and students returned to their desks and textboo...
Pakistan cannot emerge from the multiple crises it faces without a fair wage structure to ...
Tajik students deported from Iran were in that country illegally, and have returned to Dus...
International experts advocate the strategic development and multipurpose use of Sarez Lak...
Market capitalisation of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) increased by US$6 billion in fir...
On Sept. 3, 21-year-old Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova caused a minor sensation at the USA Open...
A ceremony in Chorgbog in the Varzob region marked the launch of the new South-North power...
The current inflation means that new clothes and shoes are beyond the reach of low income ...
On Sep. 4, the office of Uzbekistan’s Prosecutor General said that militants killed in a s...
The Sindh government has allotted more than 26,000 acres of state-owned land to 4,000 most...
Pakistani fishermen want the government to protect marine life from hazardous industrial w...
Human rights advocates and proponents of a free society in Kyrgyzstan have circulated an o...
Downtown Dushanbe boasts the new Avicenna medical facility, built by Iranian and Tajik spe...
The Water and Sanitation Agency of Punjab will modernise Rawalpindi’s sewage system with a...
When NATO warplanes bombed two stolen fuel lorries in northern Afghanistan early on Sept. ...
A Turkmen folk singer won the grand prize at the Shark Taronalari International Music Fest...
The Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC), a non-profit organisation for blind players at ...
The crash of a Kazakh Border Service helicopter has killed ten members of a border guard r...
Pakistanis consume about 170 million kilos of tea annually. Around 70 million kilos are sm...
The International University of Information Technology opened in Almaty on Sept. 8. It has...
A survey by the International Finance Corporation of no less than 1300 Uzbek companies rev...
Breast cancer in Kyrgyzstan accounts for 15 percent of all cancers diagnosed in Kyrgyzstan...
For weeks, hard-line elements in Iran's government have been calling for the arrest of the...
Afghan presidential election results from five polling stations were declared invalid on S...
On Sept. 9, the Almaty District Court ruled partially in favour of BTA Bank in its lawsuit...
Pakistan's army has detained a top Taliban spokesman and four other militant leaders in th...
On Sept. 8, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) presented its annual report, Doing...
Fearing a repeat of the tragedy that occurred at Russia’s Sayano-Shushensky hydroelectric ...
Tajik security forces have disrupted an international crime syndicate engaged in large-sca...
The Chinese government delivered 98 new buses to Kyrgyzstan in late August, via a US$3.5 m...
Activists in Samarkand are collecting signatures on a petition to save the home of Tajik w...
On Sept. 2, unidentified gunmen shot and wounded Pakistan's Religious Affairs Minister, Ha...
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission will award 1500 scholarships for merit students hop...
On Sept. 10, Zadratdin Baidosov, with a doctorate in history, proposed that the Kazakh pre...
Participants in the CIS Intellectual Youth Forum held at Issyk-Kul Lake appealed to CIS le...
Janez Lenarcic, director of OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, sa...
Dispelling rumours of mid-term elections in Pakistan, Prime Minister Gilani said on Sept. ...
Pakistan claimed on Sept. 13 to be close to capturing the leader of the Swat Valley Taliba...
MAN, a leading German lorry manufacturing firm, has gained a foothold in the heavy lorry m...
Tajikistan and Kazakhstan have issued guidelines on appropriate attire for teachers....
On Sept. 12, the 15th World Boxing Championships ended in Milan, Italy. Kazakhstan experie...
The Punjab government has invited Renexus Bhd, a Malaysian firm, to construct 160,000 hous...
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appears to be a man weakened under pressure in his latest ...
The cornerstone has been laid for Tajikistan’s first coal-fired power plant in the village...
On Sept. 13, a fire destroyed a drug rehabilitation clinic in Taldykorgan, killing 37 peop...
Libya will accept 30 to 50 thousand skilled and semi-skilled Pakistani workers between Sep...
The government of Kyrgyzstan intends to provide internet access to all rural authorities b...
On Sept. 14, as the Steppe Eagle 2009 international peacekeeping exercise in Kazakhstan wa...
The increasing popularity of electronic greetings, e-cards and text messaging has curtaile...
Tajik authorities intend to review the country’s military cooperation with Russia and seek...
The World Bank, USAID and the local government are jointly implementing the Sindh Educatio...
Kyrgyzstan’s official statistics claim that there are less than 70,000 child labourers in ...
Iranian nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi agreed to new terms of cooperation with the ...
Pakistan and the World Bank concluded three agreements on Sept. 15 to disburseme a US$350 ...
More than 2,000 Uzbek Muslims who have already paid for Umrah pilgrimages will not be able...
The International Road Transport Union praised Tajikistan’s role in developing transit cor...
In a year of record regulatory reform worldwide, most Asian economies made business regula...
On Sept. 12, an operation by government military and international coalition forces was la...
A suicide car bomber killed at least 25 people in northwest Pakistan on Sept. 18 in an exp...
Italy will stay the course in Afghanistan despite its worst loss of life in its five years...
A senior Uzbek militant linked to Al-Qaeda was killed in a recent strike by an unmanned ai...
Tajikistan's environmental organisations have called for the implementation of a national ...
Taliban militants on Sept. 7 shot dead four schoolchildren and wounded six others in an ap...
A small village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is setting an example of religious am...
On Sept. 15, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) delivered a note ...
According to the Kyrgyz Border Service, Kyrgyzstan’s border with Uzbekistan will open afte...
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied on Sept.18 in defiance of Iran's Islamic leadershi...
On Sept. 18, the print run of the Kazakh newspaper Republic-Business Observer was seized. ...
A Japanese construction company is rebuilding the road between Kurgan-Tyube and Dusti in s...
Kazakh politicians consider legally formalising Nursultan Nazabaev’s status as President f...
To minimise petrol consumption, Solar Geysers, a local manufacturing company, has establis...
On Sept. 17, the Dushanbe headquarters of the Coordinated Central Asian Rapid Reaction For...
After a five-year hiatus, Kyrgyz journalists earned Endeavour Awards sponsored by the Inte...
Edible oil imports cost Pakistan more than US$1 billion annually. Experts in the predomina...
On Sept. 14, Veritas, an Uzbek human rights group for young people, opposed an unofficial ...
Sept. 20 marked the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, celebrated by Eid al-Fitr. T...
Kyrgyzstan has begun its autumn army draft. The army currently has 3,000 conscripts and mo...
On Sept. 18, Tajikistan's Department of Constitutional Guarantees of Citizens' Rights and ...
A UAZ service centre has opened in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The country is the third larges...
On Sept. 18, the Kyrgyz parliament removed the parliamentary immunity of Social Democratic...
The head of criminal investigations and insurgent detention for the Isfara District in the...
There has been a sharp rise in the number of suicides in Pakistan because of depression, p...
The Pakistan Navy (PN) received its first Chinese-built F-22/P Frigate, dubbed the PNS Zul...
Due to the increasing price of gold, costume jewellery is becoming more popular, and women...
A 165km gas pipeline running through Kamchik Pass in the Kuraminsky Range of Uzbekistan mo...
The Islamic Republic of Iran displayed its third-generation Sejjil homemade ballistic miss...
Three detainees under investigation, two suspected of extremist activity and one suspected...
Suspected Taliban militants bombed a primary school on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sept. ...
On Sept. 21, the Uzbek Ministry of Emergency Situations declared that accidents at reservo...
On Sept. 22, Astana’s Department of Internal Affairs reported that an Uzbek citizen named ...
Blind Pakistani citizens are seeking a two percent job quota in banks, said Amir Ashraf, p...
Karakorum International University in Gilgit will establish an on-campus research centre t...
Armed with the disclosure of a secret Iranian nuclear facility, the leaders of France, the...
The results of a regional anti-AIDs programme in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkm...
Turkmen athletes enjoyed success at the Ninth International Issyk-Kul Games, a yearly even...
Pressure deepened against Iran Sept. 25 when the world's eight top economic powers gave Te...
Jazz Fest Tashkent 2200, held from Sept. 15 to 20, coincided with celebrations marking the...
The British Department for International Development will provide US$27.6 million to help ...
Kyrgyzstan is now preparing for the final stages of the Kyrgyz Aty Festival that is aimed ...
With U.S. President Barack Obama in the chair at an unprecedented meeting of the UN Securi...
Turkmenistan athlete Vepa Nurnanazarov set two world records and won three gold medals at ...
On Sept. 18, the Uzbek Embassy in Dushanbe lifted restrictions introduced Aug. 14 on visa ...
Kyrgyzstan is now preparing for the final stages of the Kyrgyz Aty Festival that is aimed ...
Addressing journalists in Mazar-i-Sharif on Sept. 23, Afghan Army General Mustafa Patang s...
More than 30 homes in the village of Shokhindar in Tajikistan’s Rasht Valley were washed a...
Flats, stilettos and platform heels have come and gone, but the ‘khussa’ design, decorated...
Uzbekistan has stopped supplying natural gas to southern Kyrgyzstan due to outstanding deb...
More than 1,400 students pursuing graduate degrees and doctoral studies this year will rec...
The Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan published an article by Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister Dr Mohamm...
Two vehicle bombings occurred in the northwest on Sept. 26, the first on the outskirts of ...
Under increasing attack over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme, President Mahmoud...
Many Tajik migrant workers have still not received back-pay from their Russian employers. ...
On Sept. 23, Kazakhstan's Justice Minister said Kazakh law does not ban the wearing of hea...
Methadone, a synthetic substance chemically similar to heroin, is now being used to treat ...
A suicide car-bomber killed a pro-government ethnic Pashtun tribal leader and four others ...
Kazakhstan is in negotiations with Kyrgyzstan on a mutually advantageous exchange of elect...
Iran said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles during military drills by the el...
Iran tested its longest-range missiles on Sept. 28, and warned that they could reach any p...
On Sept. 28, Kyrgyz authorities announced a reinforcement of the border with Tajikistan, i...