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• Russia to give Kyrgyz oil, help build hydro-power station

• Kazakhs arrest suspected extremists

• Khatlon investigating failure to pay teachers

• ADB lends $500m to improve Uzbek rural housing

• Kyrgyz discuss presidential election risks

• 2 new polio cases confirmed in Pakistan

• Zardari lures Chinese companies to Pakistan

• Pakistan to fight terrorism along with China, says Zardari

• Pakistan celebrates Eid August 31 amid tight security

• Quetta Eid bombing kills 11, injures 22

• Turkmen policies aid newlyweds

• UN cites Semipalatinsk on anti-nuclear testing day

• Tajiks visit Kyrgyz south-west military command

• Kyrgyz youth forum to seek inter-ethnic harmony

• Kyrgyz PM vows probe of Chinese miners’ beating

• Kazakhs kill suspected extremist

• Militants destroy another girls’ school

• Karzai sends 8 would-be child bombers home

• Karachi youths demand peace

• Karachi blast kills 2 suspects

• PPP to expel Mirza

• Chagayev loses WBA bout

• 2 Tajiks excel in world Koran recitation contest

• Aktobe police warn against rumours of terror acts

• Afghanistan joins Tajik-Kyrgyz transport accord

• Kyrgyz cities elect mayors; Baryktabasov freed

• Karachi flush with weapons, Sindh Police say

• Kandahar police chief’s alleged murder plotters arrested

• KP Eid security increased

• Saudi king supports Afghan peace initiatives

• Swabi girls’ school bombed

• Kohistan flood death toll reaches 48

• Pakistani student sets world record in O-level exam

• Al-Qaeda No. 2 reportedly killed in Pakistan

• UNDP, Kazakhs sign memorandum of understanding

• Election won’t divide Kyrgyzstan: Otunbayeva

• Turkmens free more than 3,700 inmates

• Central Asia-China gas pipeline’s capacity to nearly double

• JC approves appointment of 6 judges to SHC

• Kohat militants kill former army colonel, policeman

• Akhtar takes oath as auditor general of Pakistan

• 40 killed in cross-border Chitral raid

• Pakistan observes Youm-e-Dua

• 63 Kohistan residents missing in floods

• KP Police to take steps against aerial firing

• Balochistan shuts down on Bugti death’s 5th anniversary

• 70 suspects arrested in Karachi

• Taseer’s son kidnapped in Lahore

• Swat suicide attack foiled; bomber killed

• Karimov orders pro-small business reforms

• Imankulov resigns from GKNB

• Rakhmon opens Tajik-Kyrgyz road; Rogun gets 1 billion TJS

• Kazakhs, S. Koreans sign $8 billion in deals

• Uzbeks limit powdered-tobacco on planes

• Bishkek squatters demand utilities

• Russian Orthodox Church in CA to be divided into 4 parts

• 2 Kazakhs climb K2

• Kyrgyzstan looks at ways to increase defence exports

• Kazakh project could reduce infant, maternal mortality

• Japan to help finance Kyrgyz election

• Afghan forces kill senior Taliban commander

• Karzai condemns use of teen suicide bombers

• 10 Peshawar, Mardan inmates test positive for HIV/AIDS

• KP to increase security on Eid

• Swabi school blown up

• Kohistan rains, floods kill 22

• Punjabi militants recruit youth

• Tajiks, Kyrgyz prepare for Independence Day

• Uzbeks, S. Koreans to build chemical plant

• Tajiks, Afghans can’t reach electricity deal

• Afghan villagers stone 2 Taliban members to death

• Afghanistan vows to wipe out polio by 2012

• Government to set up radio, TV stations in FATA

• China hints at playing role in Afghan peace

• Kazakhstan sets ‘people’s IPO’ for 2012

• Kyrgyz cops find heroin, weapons

• Tajik extremist sentenced to 18 years

• 3 new polio cases confirmed in Pakistan

• FATA cleared of militants, KP governor says

• N. Waziristan aerial strike kills 5 militants

• Balochistan loses 1.2m voters

• Zakat for artists termed un-Islamic

• Karachi shuts down over violence

• Kazakh-chaired OIC to aid Somalia

• Kyrgyz seize 2.4 tonnes of marijuana

• Turkmens, Uzbeks create agencies to oversee communications

• Kyrgyz arrest 2 policemen linked to Russian citizen’s death

• Kazakhstan blocks blogging sites, cites terrorism

• Khyber TV crew attacked

• Militants asked to negotiate, halt violence

• Mohmand militants attack school

• Haqqani-linked commander killed in N. Waziristan clash

• Khar headed to China, Saudi Arabia

• 12,000 Orakzai families still displaced

• EC starts voter roll verification

• SC takes suo moto notice of Karachi unrest

• Turkmen, Russian presidents to exchange visits; Ashgabat buys bulldozers, excavators

• Kazakhstan to participate in Rio+20 summit

• OSCE holds Kazakh anti-human trafficking workshop

• Otunbayeva vows sanctions for torture

• Rakhmon approves amnesty

• 100 Karachi suspects arrested, 5 civilians killed

• 3 FIA Lahore building blast suspects arrested

• Quetta attackers kill 1, injure 2

• Islamabad restricts foreign diplomats’ movement

• Waqar Younus quits cricket coaching

• Khyber clash kills 1 soldier, 3 militants

• Tajikistan replaces Syria in World Cup qualifier

• Tajik Hajj registration process begins

• Kazakhs count Senate votes

• Afghanistan, Russia co-operate on energy

• Tajik lower chamber approves amnesty

• Tajik students schooled abroad suspected of extremist crimes

• Kabul British Council attack kills at least 8

• Cricket board clears Shoaib Malik

• Kurram offensive concluded, ISPR says

• Karachi death toll reaches 59

• S. Waziristan aerial attack kills 4, injures 2

• Nasaf awaits competitor in Uzbek Cup final

• Planned Ashgabat TV tower to cost €137m

• Kazakhstan should diversify economy, IMF says

• Kazakh Justice Ministry issuing only electronic licenses

• Kazakh rare-earth metal exports up 75% in 1st half of 2011

• 5.2-point earthquake rocks Afghanistan

• Osh journalists warned against inciting ‘hatred’

• Atta Muhammad to head Kandahar regional peace committee

• Herat roadside bombs kill 23

• Swat militants desecrate 40 graves

• Zardari visits Bahrain

• Pakistan Railways cancels 58 trains

• 4 Baloch activists found dead in Mastung

• NADRA publishes new rolls with 80m voters

• Kurram troops kill 6 militants; 7 security personnel injured

• Karachi violence kills 31

• Imitation explosives found in Baikonur kindergartens

• Berdymukhamedov denounces satellite dishes

• Kyrgyzstan has 81 would-be presidential candidates

• 12 Kazakhs convicted of extremism

• Afghan smugglers kill Tajik border guard

• UN adds Haqqani network commander to blacklist

• Militants kill Bajaur tribal elder, his son

• Uruzgan market bombing kills 7

• Gilani condemns militants for attacking schools

• TTP, LI infighting kills 13

• Karachi police arrest suspected Baitullah Mehsud aide

• Floodwater submerges 50 Thatta villages

• Zardari approves Wana Cadet College’s regulations

• BBC reporter’s trial starts

• Rakhmon opens new Tajik-Afghan bridge

• Caspian Sea states to introduce oil emergency response system

• Kyrgyz protest against Chinese gold mining ends

• Turkmens, Afghans discuss TAPI

• WB recommends delay of Rogun construction

• Kyrgyz judge selection chief quits

• Taliban kill Afghan female worker, 4 security guards in Kandahar

• 13 killed in 2 Peshawar incidents

• Pakistan plans to send RSSS in 2014

• 20 militants surrender in Bajaur Agency

• Sindh flooding affects 1m residents, Sindh CM says

• Motorbike riding banned in Bara Tehsil

• N. Waziristan aerial attack kills 4

• Turkmens celebrate Melon Day

• CA wins 4 golds at Asian boxing championship

• Kazakhs soften proposed language law

• Tajik firm to build Afghan dam’s 1st phase

• Some Kyrgyz judicial candidates incompetent, Otunbayeva says

• Kyrgyz PM to run for president

• Kyrgyz demonstrators disrupt parliament

• Parwan suicide attack kills at least 22

• Ghazni attack kills policeman, 4 Taliban

• Khuzdar journalist shot to death

• Suspected Taliban commander Bakht Farzandi captured

• Sindh flooding hits 200,000 people

• Charsadda blast injures 7

• PAF F-7 fighter plane crashes in Bhakkar

• President amends laws governing FATA

• Karachi police raid Marri house; seize bombs, ammunition

• Pakistani doctors conduct 1st liver transplant

• Sindh closed in protest over local government system

• GHQ attacker Dr Usman sentenced to death; 4 others get life

• Batken Oblast kindergarten safety improved

• Voskoboyeva loses in Rogers Cup quarter-final

• Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks to form joint disaster centre

• Kyrgyz, Uzbek youth work together in ‘We Are One!’ exercise

• Kyrgyz to inspect prisons

• CSTO member-states discuss Afghan war, rapid reaction force

• Kyrgyzstan feels 4-point quake

• Kazakhstan’s Voskoboyeva defeats Sharapova 6-3, 7-5

• Turkmens sentence officers for Abadan explosions

• Zor extradited to Turkey

• Zardari extends political parties act to FATA

• Khar supports Turkey on economy, peace in region

• 3 policemen killed in Peshawar

• Militants blow up girls’ school

• China helps Pakistan launch 1st communication satellite

• Kazakhstan fires 80 traffic police

• Uzbeks win, Kazakhs tie in football

• Kyrgyzstan to spend 30m KGS celebrating independence

• Kyrgyz compile terrorist list

• Otunbayeva pledges attention to judge selection process

• Turkmens to buy 50 Chinese locomotives

• Kazakhstan fossil ID'd as 65m-year-old bird

• Kazakh Muslim group proposes own anti-terror force

• Karzai asks militants not to hide bombs in turbans

• Karzai won’t seek 3rd term

• Khar, Davutoglu discuss bilateral relations, peace

• Pakistan’s UK mission to help Pakistanis after riots

• Pakistan delivers Umar Patek to Indonesia

• Heavy rains in Sindh

• Quetta shooting kills 3 policemen

• Pakistan wins S. Asian U-16 football championship

• Khar, Davutoglu to discuss Afghan reconciliation

• ISI, MI deny custody of missing HT suspects

• Police directed to act against Musharraf in Bugti murder

• 5.7-magnitude quake hits Balochistan, Karachi

• Miranshah aerial strikes kill 21 suspected militants

• Tajikistan seeks FIFA probe of Syrian player’s eligibility

• Uzbeks defeat Serbs 2-0 in football

• Drought could mean 9m Afghan hungry, UN says

• Ex-Kyrgyz defence minister moved to house arrest

• Balkan Velayat without drinking water

• Kazakhstan issues 1m Russian-Kazakh phrase books

• Afghan smugglers kidnap Tajik

• Bishkek reforming traffic police

• Kara-Suu market still suffering from 2010 unrest

• Osh to get 1st energy-efficient school

• Kyrgyz SC objects to judge selection system

• Kyrgyz detain suspected Chechen terrorist

• Kyrgyz squatters block highway in protest

• 4 Sughd madrassas closed

• Gilani, Abdullah discuss Afghan reconciliation

• Karachi stock market down by 369.25 points

• D.G. Khan Police arrest suspect with 3 hand grenades

• Foreigners need permits to enter Peshawar, FATA

• Turbat bombing injures 4 FC personnel

• Peshawar security forces kill Taliban commander

• Kandahar officials arrest 12 militant suspects

• Sindh restores 2001 local government system

• Kurram offensive has killed 200 militants since July

• Torrential rains hit Punjab, KP, Kashmir

• Pakistani army reviews Karachi situation

• Tajiks, Kyrgyz break up drug rings

• Kazakh prison official gets 10 years for selling drugs

• Uzbeks discuss laser attacks on planes

• Tajiks, Pakistanis discuss road link for their countries

• Turkmenistan to export Caspian Sea gas

• Kazakh uranium production increases

• Kyrgyz law requires registration of marriages

• International organisations, Kyrgyz train for emergencies

• Kazakh grain harvest of 17m-17.5m tonnes predicted

• Justice Party Pakistan formed

• Mohmand suicide bomber dies, no casualties

• MQM to rejoin coalition government

• Akhmat Bakiyev sentenced to 7 years

• Turkmen presidential election set for February 12

• Kazakh language law proposed for government documents

• Movarounnakhr chief's trial begins

• Kyrgyz plan to sell power to Afghanistan, Pakistan

• Kyrgyz, Kazakhs can’t reach agreement on water

• Pakistani communications minister to visit Tajikistan

• Doskaliyev gets 7-year sentence

• Naran cleric launches anti-extremism campaign

• Khyber Agency militants blow up 2 schools

• Bannu cellular phones working again

• Karachi violence kills 800 in 2011, says HRCP

• Pakistan women’s cricket training camp announced

• Cheema likely to replace Intakhab Alam as cricket manager

• Raisani denies Taliban Quetta shura existence

• MQM, ANP want army deployment in Karachi

• Navy officers charged in PNS Mehran attack

• Kurram offensive kills 6 Taliban

• Turkmen meat scarce during Ramadan

• 12 Dushanbe dental clinics close after hepatitis scare

• Turkmenistan relaxes rules on SIM card purchases

• WB approves more Kyrgyz aid

• Dordoi Market rocked by explosion

• Tajik 1st deputy PM buried

• Foreigners in Uzbekistan must buy plane tickets in foreign currency

• 4 Kazakh inmates escaped own explosion July 11

• Militants trying to penetrate CA, Afghan governor says

• Berdymukhamedov re-shuffles security bosses

• Zor’s detention prolonged

• Uzbeks close mobile internet, text services on exam day

• Kazakhs seize 1 tonne of marijuana

• Kazakhs reject Siberian river diversion plan

• Alleged Khudoiberdiyev accomplices' trial begins

• Tajiks to raise pensions, stipends, government salaries

• Kyrgyz April 2010 death toll rises to 99

• Rakhmon signs law restricting children’s religious observances

• Punjab bans charity by some Islamic organisations

• Mohmand arms cache seized

• 24 arrested in Karachi search

• Pakistani ulema launch pro-peace programme

• 3,143 terrorism suspects arrested 2009-2011

• Russia reduces duties on gasoline sold to Tajikistan

• Kyrgyz send aid to Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz community

• OSCE, Kyrgyz discuss women’s rights, human trafficking

• Otunbayeva ratifies CIS agreement on arms

• Kurmanbek Bakiyev trial continues

• Doskaliyev still faces corruption charges

• Rakhmon decorates, promotes 280 military, security officers

• Electricity rates up by Rs 1.04

• 50 suspects arrested in Quetta search

• Punjab bans fund-raising by outlawed organisations

• Ramadan in Pakistan started August 2

• SC rejects Kazmi bail request

• FC given police powers in Karachi

• Khairpur attack burns 10 coalition oil tankers, injures 3

• Hub restaurant blast kills 1, injures 7

• HRCP calls for political solution to Karachi violence

• Quetta blast kills 2

• S. Waziristan aerial attack kills 5

• Uzbeks to play Japan, Syria, N. Korea

• Kazakhstan places 4th in junior boxing championship

• Uranium-tailing sites threaten CA water resources

• Berdymukhamedov vows to fight corruption

• Abadan’s buildings repaired, Turkmens say

• Doskaliyev, Sadykov charges thrown out

• 1,214 Batken residents affected by July 20 quake

• Kyrgyz break up gun-trafficking ring; police implicated