Afghanistan
ISIS Branch Blamed in Moscow Attack Has Hit at Taliban’s Russia Links (New York Times)
Taliban Strongly Condemns Moscow Concert Hall Attack (Radio Free Europe)
Taliban Chief Defends Islamic Criminal Justice System, Including Stoning Women for Adultery (VOA)
Robina Azizi Fled the Taliban. Now She’s Saving Girls’ Education in Afghanistan (Daily Beast)
Afghanistan: Teen girls despair as Taliban school ban continues (BBC)
Al Qaeda Is Back—and Thriving—in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy)
Pakistan
An Economy Perpetually in Crisis Is Shredding Pakistan’s Middle Class (Wall Street Journal)
New finance minister says Pakistan will seek a long-term IMF loan to stabilize the economy (AP)
Pakistan Threatens To Close Vital Afghan Trade Corridor With India (Radio Free Europe)
Historic Win Shatters Stereotypes, Empowers Women in Pakistani Politics (VOA)
India
The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies (New York Times)
Modi’s Party Doesn’t Control All of India. But He’s Working on It. (New York Times)
India Tax Agency Seizes Opposition Funds Ahead of World’s Biggest Election (Wall Street Journal)
Protests against arrest of one of top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Modi continue for second day (AP)
India protests German remarks on opposition leader’s arrest (Reuters)
Naveen Jindal leaves Congress Party to join BJP before India election (Reuters)
India court effectively bans madrasas in big state before election (Reuters)
Critics Complain of Harassment After India Revokes Visa Privileges (VOA)
India brings back 35 Somali pirates as part of operations near Red Sea (Reuters)
Protests in remote Ladakh enter 3rd week. Locals demand protection of fragile ecology, land autonomy (AP)
Outrage toward rape in India must extend to local women too (Nikkei Asia – opinion)
NSB
‘Redefining journalism’: how Nepali YouTube series Herne Katha goes off the beaten track to bring untold stories to light (South China Morning Post)
Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan claims to have thwarted major assassination plot (EurasiaNet)
Child Rape Case Underscores Kyrgyzstan’s Failure To Tackle Plaguing Problem (Radio Free Europe)
Anti-Migrant Sentiment Rises In Russia As 4 Tajiks Charged In Moscow Attack (Radio Free Europe)
Moscow concert attack ‘terrorists have no nationality’, Tajik president tells Putin (The Telegraph)
Islamic State ‘recruiting from Tajikistan and other central Asian countries’ (The Guardian)
Uzbekistan: “Tashkent mafia chieftain” gets six years in prison (EurasiaNet)
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