Afghanistan
Taliban score successes with embassy closures, COP attendance (Agence France-Presse)
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Punjab Launches Plan to Curb World’s Worst Smog (Bloomberg)
Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say (AP)
Xi Jinping faces heat over failure to protect Chinese workers overseas (Financial Times)
Police officer arrested over deadly 2023 suicide bombing at Pakistan mosque (AP)
A bus carrying wedding guests falls into a river in northern Pakistan, killing 18 (AP)
Bus falls into Indus river in Pakistan, killing 14 (Reuters)
India
Visibility drops in parts of Delhi as pollution surges (Reuters)
Toxic smog smothering India’s capital smashes WHO limit (Agence France-Presse)
Indian political parties woo women voters with cash handouts amid economic woes (Reuters)
India’s top court bans ‘bulldozer justice’ as punishment (BBC)
India asks states to consider setting up nuclear power plants, list power utilities (Reuters)
India’s Leap of Faith in Afghanistan: Tango With the Taliban (The Diplomat)
India: Shutdown in Manipur after security forces kill 10 (Deutsche Welle)
Life in Ladakh Along the Disputed Sino-Indian Border (The Diplomat)
Why online scams are on the rise in India (Deutsche Welle)
NSB
Climate change is a global challenge. Bangladesh has answers. (Christian Science Monitor)
Bangladesh: How inclusive is the democratic restart? (Deutsche Welle)
Sri Lankan president seeks party win in parliamentary election to help him push his economic reforms (AP)
Sri Lanka’s first transgender candidate hopes to break political, social barriers (Reuters)
Central Asia
Azeris, Kazakhs, Uzbeks Agree to Develop, Export Clean Energy (Bloomberg)
Kazakhstan Again Misses OPEC+ Target for Cutting Oil Output (Bloomberg)
Kazakhstan: Seals are dying en masse in the Caspian Sea (EurasiaNet)
Indo-Pacific
How India, Pakistan and China Might Cooperate on Air Quality (Forbes)
‘Hydro diplomacy’ offers hope for India-Pakistan relations (Nikkei Asia – opinion)
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