Afghanistan
American held by the Taliban needs urgent medical care, says UN expert (Reuters)
Taliban’s Education Ban On Afghan Girls Fuels Spike In Child Marriages (Radio Free Europe)
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school (The Guardian)
Empty platitudes and online courses won’t save Afghan women and girls (The Hill – opinion)
Almost no one recognizes the Taliban. But Russia appears set to start. (Christian Science Monitor)
Pakistan
Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan will affect 200,000 people, a top UN official warns (AP)
Is China Souring on Pakistan? (The Diplomat)
Will Pakistan’s new budget help the country’s poorest? (Deutsche Welle)
India
US lawmakers to meet Dalai Lama on India trip next week (Reuters)
India can be part of Quad collective defense, university report says (Nikkei Asia)
Modi Retains Former Super Spy as India’s National Security Adviser (Bloomberg)
India brings home bodies of 45 workers killed in Kuwait fire (Reuters)
Kuwait fire leaves 24 families in India’s Kerala state bereft (Reuters)
‘State of shock’: Kuwait fire leaves many families bereft in India’s Kerala (Al Jazeera)
Heavy rain, landslides kill 6 in India’s Sikkim, 2,000 tourists stranded (Reuters)
India attracts chipmaking equipment companies as China alternative (Nikkei Asia)
India’s opposition leveraged caste and constitution to shock Modi in election (Reuters)
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns (The Guardian)
How an inadvertent free speech coalition upended India’s election (The Hill – opinion)
NSB
Diplomat: US committed to work with Bangladesh on corruption (VOA)
Sea Swamps Bangladesh At One Of World’s Fastest Rates (Agence France-Presse)
Will the Congress Party’s Strategy Against the BJP Work For the Bangladesh Nationalist Party? (The Diplomat)
Central Asia
Kazakhstan: Astana seeking public input for water-management plan (EurasiaNet)
Victims Of 2010 Ethnic Clashes Commemorated In Kyrgyzstan (Radio Free Europe)
‘ISIS isn’t done with us’: Arrested Tajiks highlight US fears of terror attack on US (CNN)
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