• Afghanistan
  • CIA official: Predictions about Afghanistan becoming a terror launching pad after U.S. exit ‘did not come to pass’ (NBC News)
  • Afghanistan after 3 years of Taliban rule: Women silenced and oppressed as ISIS and al Qaeda regroup (CBS News)
  • Afghan girls, women suffer three years after US withdrawal (VOA)
  • ‘Gender apartheid’ takes hold in Afghanistan three years after US withdrawal (The Hill)
  • Afghanistan Slides Into ‘Ever More Hellish Conditions’ After New Morality Law Enacted (Radio Free Europe)
  • Outgoing EU Diplomat Raffaella Iodice Reflects on Her Time in Afghanistan (The Diplomat)
  • Afghanistan goes back to war — against women (Washington Post – opinion)
  • When will Congress do right by our Afghan allies? (The Hill – opinion)
• Pakistan
  • China vows to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan (VOA)
  • Chinese General Li Visits Pakistan Amid Deteriorating Security (The Diplomat)
  • 4 people kidnapped, including army officer visiting northwest Pakistan to attend father’s funeral (AP)
  • In Pakistan’s Balochistan, deadly attacks rip uneasy migrant-local equation (Al Jazeera)
  • Pakistan urges Afghan Taliban to address perception as ‘ideological cousins of TTP’ (VOA)
  • Pakistan’s internet to remain slow into October, regulator says (VOA)
• India
  • Floods in Indian state kill 28 and displace thousands (BBC)
  • Foreign lenders lured by rare stake sales in India banks, but tighter rules weigh (Reuters)
  • Modi Loses His Mojo as He Bows to the Opposition (Wall Street Journal – opinion)
• NSB
  • Young Officers in Bangladesh’s Army Persuaded Chiefs to Back Protesters (Wall Street Journal)
  • Bangladesh’s interim government led by Yunus lifts ban on the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party (AP)
  • Bangladesh’s interim government lifts ban on Jamaat-e-Islami party (Al Jazeera)
  • Fact-checkers question accounts of ‘anti-Hindu’ violence in Bangladesh (VOA)
  • Bangladesh: Government Sets up Disappearances Inquiry (Human Rights Watch)
  • Nepal: Will new laws offer closure to war crime victims? (Deutsche Welle)
  • Sri Lanka Leftist Candidate Gains Ground With Anti-Corruption Push (Bloomberg)
• Central Asia
  • Amid Government Push, Russia Looms Large Over Kazakh Nuclear Power Debate (Radio Free Europe)
  • Kyrgyzstan Considers Fines for Spreading ‘False Information’ (The Diplomat)
  • Uzbekistan is looking to electric cars to help drive its green transition (CNN)
• Indo-Pacific
  • Thousands evacuated as cyclone builds off India and Pakistan’s coast (Reuters)
• Twitter
  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • NSB
  • Central Asia

SCA MORNING PRESS CLIPS

SCA MORNING PRESS CLIPS