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• Kyrgyz election commission checking results, embassies protest ballot challenge

• Kyrgyz families evacuated during Tajik counter-terror operation

• Orakzai Sikhs return home

• ANF arrests 8 drug smugglers in pretext of hajis

• Karachi Police arrest Shershah market suspect

• U-16 Uzbek team crushes Tajikistan

• IBRD to provide $62m to Turkmenistan

• 5 Nariman murder suspects get life

• Internet access in Uzbekistan rises

• IMU member killed in Chorku

• Orakzai offensive kills 12 militants

• Balochistan militants torch 2 oil tankers, 1 killed

• Pakistan-Afghan authorities sign new trade accord

• PML factions meet to forge united front

• Maulvi Munir, Taliban ‘judge,’ killed

• Night patrol shot at in Batken

• Kazakhstan, France sign US $2.77 billion contracts

• Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Afghans, Chinese discuss transportation

• Kyrgyzstan voids some overseas ballots

• Afghan wedding building collapses; 65 die

• Militants attack Mohmand water sources

• Peshawar police arrest 20 suspects

• SCBA elects first female president

• Orakzai offensive kills 12 suspected militants

• Pakistan approves gas pipeline from Turkmenistan

• Taliban behead 3 in Mohmand

• N. Waziristan aerial strikes kill 7 suspected militants

• Earthquake hits KP, Tajikistan

• Militant commander killed in Bajaur

• Police in Peshawar killed by suspected militants

• Pakistan is cracking down on militants, Malik says

• Uzbekistan ties, Tajikistan loses in AFC U-16 tournament

• Kazakhs to serve at coalition HQ in Afghanistan

• Tajiks find 3 Alpha troops' bodies

• Tajik, Afghan police shut down 12 drug labs in 2010

• 40 Bakiyev cases sent to court

• Kulov suggests government of national trust, more elections

• IMU commander killed in Afghanistan

• Tajikistan finds 20 illegal religious schools

• Orakzai IDPs returning home

• UNHCR to cease Afghan repatriation at end of October

• AI wants inquiry into Balochistan killings

• Quetta attack kills 3, injures 9

• Khyber Agency blast injures anti-Taliban tribesmen

• N. Waziristan aerial attacks kill 6 suspected militants

• Afghan security forces wrap up Chahar Bagh operation

• Bannu police arrest 18 suspects after school blasts

• KP refuses to restore cell service in south

• Herat bomb kills 4 policemen

• WHO finds 99 cholera cases in Pakistan's flood-hit areas

• Orakzai clash kills 6 militants, 1 soldier

• Mohmand Agency offensive kills 5 suspected militants

• Kazakhs order new warship

• Uzbekistan buys 11m polio vaccine doses

• Putin might visit Tajikistan

• Kyrgyz politicians charged with inciting mass disorder

• Tajik extremists charged, 2 others arrested

• Rasht Valley under control, Rakhmon says

• N. Waziristan tribesmen on strike against militants

• Peshawar police arrest 76 suspects

• Militants bomb 4 schools, college

• Nishtar Hall re-opens

• Balochistan targeted killings claim 5 lives

• Orakzai blast kills 3, injures 2

• SBP forecasts lower growth and high inflation for FY 2010-11

• Uzbeks win World Amputee Football title again

• Tajikistan ties, Uzbekistan wins in U-16 football

• Tajiks lengthen school year

• CSTO Vzaimodeistvie-2010 exercise begins in Russia

• Rakhmon in Afghanistan for 2 days

• Kyrgyz tensions rise over claimed assassination attempt

• Tajikistan acknowledges teacher shortage

• Uzbek economy grew 8.3% during first 3 quarters

• Gazprom considers joining TAPI pipeline

• Dzhamaat Ansarullakh doesn’t exist, Sughd official says

• Punjab faces gas shortage as gas field closes

• SC admits petitions against Chairman NAB appointment

• Taliban backbone broken: Pakistan CJCSC Gen Shamim Wyne

• Afghan district governor killed by IED

• 36 militants killed, commander arrested in Orakzai Agency

• Uzbek customs seize 77,000 litres of alcohol in 2010

• Bajaur offensive nets 25 suspected militants

• KP government opening official information to public

• Journalist protection urged

• Pishtakhara mosque bomb blast kills 3, wounds 22

• Dengue virus spreads in Lahore

• Pakistan army colonel killed in Orakzai explosion

• WHO declares Turkmenistan malaria-free

• Kazakhstan needs 2,000 doctors, health ministry says

• Tajik prisons satisfactory, justice minister says

• Uzbek customs seize 77,000 litres of alcohol in 2010

• Tajik troops kill 13 militants in a month, official says

• Afghan army capable of taking control, official says

• KP universities on strike for 4th day

• Pakistanis to represent Asia in World Snooker

• Police and Rangers patrol Karachi as 2 more killed

• Peshawar police seize stolen NATO supplies

• Kurram blast kills top militant commander, 5 others

• SC asks parliament to reconsider Article 175-A

• Central Asian countries rank poorly in press freedom

• Almaty subway sees 1st test run

• Berdymukhamedov, others talk energy, security, infrastructure

• TALCO denies polluting Uzbekistan

• Kazakhstanis agree to extradite Uzbek terror suspect

• Tajiks kill 2 suspected IMU members in Sughd

• 81 corruption cases against Kazakhstani customs officers in 2010

• KazMunaiGaz wins Iraqi gas tender

• Otunbayeva, election chief, party chairs discuss election results

• Bakiyev nephew's trial postponed; riot panel names 6 members

• Lake Balkhash deteriorating, environmentalists say

• WHO to establish eye camps across Afghanistan

• Bannu offensive nets 25 miscreants

• Younus Khan included on Pakistani cricket team

• Bara clash kills 1 militant, injures policeman

• Laghari dies

• S. Waziristan militants kill 3 soldiers

• 7m flood victims need shelter, UN says

• KP establishes women's emergency unit

• KP universities strike for second day

• Election commission suspends 141 lawmakers

• Kalat militants torch oil tankers

• N. Waziristan aerial strikes kill 6 suspected militants

• Kyrgyz glaciers melting faster

• Customs union to form supra-national body in 2011

• Butun Kyrgyzstan supporters protest in Bishkek

• 6 Tajik helicopter crash troops missing

• Khyber Agency search nets 50 suspected militants

• KP universities protest VC's abduction

• Swat, Kurram clashes kill 6 suspected militants

• Lakki police kill would-be bomber; explosion injures 15

• Britain to support 115,000 flood-hit families

• FC Bunyodkor wins, Pakhtakor ties

• Medvedev to discuss energy co-operation in Turkmenistan

• Kazakhstani police free exploited Uzbek labourers

• Kyrgyz jobless rate could reach 12% in 2011

• 3 militants reportedly killed in Tajikistan

• Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan to sign co-operation documents

• Uzbek soccer amputees participate in world championship

• Hizb ut-Tahrir leader arrested in Bishkek

• 18 Pakistanis freed from Yemen jails arrive Karachi

• 35% of Pakistanis lack safe drinking water

• 34,000 Pakistan Army troops in N. Waziristan

• Karachi violence precedes election; ANP might boycott vote

• University workers announce boycott after kidnapping

• Badabher school destroyed

• 1 Russian suspected poacher killed in boat ramming

• Kazakhstani men's football coach fired

• Turkmenistan completes new gas pipeline

• Uzbekistan resumes allowing Rogun-bound freight

• 27 Rasht militants surrender

• Bannu police seize weapons aimed to train militants

• Kohat police arrests 46 suspected militants

• Lawyers consider new pro-judiciary demonstration

• Malaria strikes 300,000 Pakistanis in flood-hit area

• Orakzai clash claims 7 lives

• N. Waziristan aerial strike kills 4 suspected militants

• Oil tanker torched in Khyber Agency, 2 killed

• Uzbek men's football team beats Bahrain 4-2

• Pavlyuk slaying suspect identified as ex-Kyrgyz security officer

• Uzbeks convict 14 of extremism

• Tajiks mail amnesty offers to Rasht Valley insurgents

• Tajiks investigate Dzhamaat Ansarullakh

• Said Muhammad Shah Baba shrine blown up

• Dr. Intikhab Alam found alive

• Pakistani cricket team cleared of charges in Oval match

• N. Waziristan aerial strikes kill 8 suspected militants

• Ajmal Khan shown in Taliban video

• Bahawalpur police foil plot on prime minister, other officials

• Tajik youth wins world sambo championship

• Rakhmon bans export of livestock, meat, potatoes, wool, metals

• Tajikistan had 21 polio deaths, minister says

• Kazakhstan reduces uranium production estimate

• Tajikistan prosecutes 73 Hizb ut-Tahrir suspects in 2010

• Khudzhand authorities arrest 14 bombing suspects

• Kyrgyz officials resist vote recount

• Kohat police arrest 27 suspected militants

• KP doctors strike to protest kidnapping

• IED blasts injure 4 security personnel

• Thai police arrest 15 Pakistanis

• Kiyani visits S.Waziristan, Kurram

• Erdogan assures Gilani of help in flood rehabilitation

• Militants kill 3 anti-Taliban tribal elders in Mohmand Agency

• Pakistan flood damage estimated at $9.5 billion

• Afghanistan’s maternal mortality rate falls

• Mardan operation kills 4 miscreants, nets 700 suspects

• Mohmand Agency security forces arrest 14 suspected militants

• SHC reserves verdict on treason case against Musharraf

• MQM moves bill for land reforms in Pakistan

• Pakistan facing 3,000MW electricity shortfall

• Kandahar authorities seize 3,000kg of ammonium nitrate

• Pakistani perishable food prices soar 53.9% in 1 year

• Saudi Arabia beats Uzbekistan 2-1 in AFC U-19 play

• Astana to host OSCE conference on terror October 14-15

• EU, UN renovate border guard facility for Turkmen

• Berdymukhammedov discusses trade with Qatari emir

• Tajikistan to create database on madrassa students abroad

• Tajikistan drops case against Gafforov

• Tajikistan doesn't rule out amnesty for Rasht insurgents

• PFUJ to observe October 13 as black day

• Militants destroy schools in Mohmand Agency

• Supreme Court rejects request to postpone NRO case

• Taliban commander among 7 dead in N. Waziristan aerial strike

• Farooq Khan murder suspects arrested

• Uzbek football team loses in Saudi Arabia

• Polio case found in S. Kazakhstan

• CIS, EAEC, SCO, ODKB officials to discuss security

• Pavlodar uranium sellers sentenced to prison

• Kumtor gold miners end strike, win pay raise

• Kyrygz ready for elections, security patrols increased

• Russian militant killed in Tajikistan

• Rasht valley visited by Red Cross, Red Crescent

• SPADO launches anti-mines, UXO campaign

• Pakistan loses hockey match to Australia in commonwealth games

• Pakistan Cricket Board lifts ban on all-rounder Rana Naved

• Swat clash kills 5 suspected militants

• Pakistan Army pounds militant positions in Khyber Agency

• NAB chairman appointed, challenged in court

• N Waziristan aerial attacks kill 5 suspected militants

• Militants torch 29 more oil tankers in Balochistan

• OSCE trains Turkmen police

• Uzbekistan beats Iraq 1-0 in AFC play

• Uzbekistan opposes large dams

• Kazakhstan stiffens oil theft penalties

• Kyrgyzstan election campaigning ends

• Badabher schools bombed; 18 suspected militants arrested

• IED manufacturing compound in Afghanistan destroyed

• IMF urges Pakistan tax reforms for $1.7 billion tranche

• Kashmir observes 5th quake anniversary

• Ghazi shrine suicide bomber identified; city on strike

• Mullah Omar backs peace talks

• Lukoil considers Caspian shipping options; Kazakhstan raises KTK quota

• Kyrgyz police find $700,000 from Bakiyevs in car

• Turkmen envoy to UN calls for fairness in non-proliferation treaty

• Afghanistan, Tajikistan in protracted food crisis: UN

• Tajik suspected suicide bomber’s father disowns sons

• 34 Tajik troops killed

• Dengue fever threatens Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Pakistan Railways short 110 train engines

• Pakistan beats Malaysia in Commonwealth hockey

• Militants burn 54 more oil tankers

• N. Waziristan aerial strikes kill 11 suspected militants

• Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine targeted, 10 killed

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa introduces Pashtu as compulsory subject

• Pakistani wrestler qualifies for final at Commonwealth Games

• Karachi cleric slain

• Australian air force chief visits Multan flood relief hospital

• Suspected militant killed; nearly 30 arrested

• Grenade kills 1 near Bannu

• Taliban attacks 40 more oil tankers, 1 killed

• Uzbekistan tops Bahrain 1-0 in AFC U-19 play

• Kazakhstanis arrest 2 suspects in Pavlyuk slaying

• OSCE/ODIHR praises Kyrgyz campaign conduct

• Kazakhstan mulls treatment, not prison, for drug possession

• Tajiks seize 140kg of drugs

• Rakhmon, Afghan foreign minister to confer

• Tajik National Guard helicopter crash kills 26

• Bunyodkor, Pakhtakor win again

• ADB issues loan to help small Kazakhstani businesses

• Uzbekistan to supply electricity to Tajikistan's Sughd Oblast

• Afghanistan wants to buy Kazakhstani wheat

• 7 militants, Tajik OMON commander, Afghan prison escapee killed

• Pakistan 2nd most dangerous country for journalists

• Karachi targeted killings claim 2 more lives

• Swat clash kills 2 militants

• Pakistan wins hockey match against Scotland

• Aerial strike kills 8 in N. Waziristan

• Punjab judges end strike, lawyers' boycott continues

• Uzbek U-19 team beats N. Korea

• Restrictions on Kazakhstani grain exports urged

• Ata Meken leads in Kyrgyz polls

• 5 Tajik policemen, 2 militants killed in Rasht fighting

• Australian PM visits Afghanistan

• Suspected militants blow up two more schools

• Pakistan faces 5,000MW electricity shortfall

• Pakistani players win in Commonwealth Games first round

• 1,300 Punjab judges step down over rift with bar

• Taliban blamed for killing 3 men in N Waziristan

• Suspected militants kill 3, torch 20 NATO oil tankers

• Uzbek football prepares for Saudi, Bahraini matches

• Kazakhstan fines oil firm for environmental violations

• Turkey holds ethnic tolerance conference at Issyk-Kul

• Dr Farooq Khan killed

• Musharraf launches party in London

• PEPCO dissolved, electricity tariff raised

• Lawyers clash with police in Lahore

• 13 killed in 2 aerial strikes in N. Waziristan

• Taliban claim responsibility for attack on NATO oil tankers

• Doping scandal hits Team Astana

• Berdymukhamedov says government welcomes new parties, newspapers

• Kyrgyz gold miners start work slowdown

• Bakiyev family, associates cost Kyrgyzstan US $130m: prosecutor

• Ex-Tajik security deputy chief under investigation

• Coal deposit of 2 tonnes discovered in Tharparkar

• Kohat police seize weapons, arrest 2 suspects

• Militants blow up 2 primary schools

• Pakistan petrol, diesel prices fall slightly

• Militants torch 27 NATO oil tankers in Shikarpur

• World Bank approves $430m flood loan

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa loses 551 policemen in war on terrorism