• Afghanistan
  • White House Says G.O.P.’s Afghanistan Report Offers ‘Little or Nothing New’ (New York Times)
  • State Department denies lack of planning for withdrawal laid out in GOP-led Afghanistan report (FOX News)
  • State Department Says House Report On Withdrawal From Afghanistan ‘Cherry-Picked Facts’ (Radio Free Europe)
  • McCaul says he will hold Blinken in contempt after State Department shrugs off his demands for testimony (FOX News)
  • The Taliban’s repression of women in Afghanistan is outrageous, the UN rights chief says (AP)
  • UN: Taliban’s morality laws targeting women deepen Afghanistan’s isolation (VOA)
  • Afghanistan’s London embassy to close after its diplomats were disowned by the Taliban (AP)
  • Afghanistan’s Norway embassy is closing this week, a statement from the mission says (AP)
  • The Taliban Have Reached a New Low. How Can the World Respond? (New York Times – opinion)
  • The Long Shadow of Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal Debacle (Wall Street Journal – opinion)
• Pakistan
  • Pakistan Arrests Imran Khan Loyalists, Stoking Tensions Again (Bloomberg)
  • Top leaders of Imran Khan’s party arrested in Pakistan after being accused of inciting violence (AP)
  • Police Block Pakistani Highway Over Military, Intelligence Meddling (Radio Free Europe)
  • ‘No One Is Safe’: Life Under The Rule Of The Pakistani Taliban (Radio Free Europe)
  • Bomb blast hits Pakistan polio team amid national immunization drive (VOA)
  • A Dutch court convicts 2 Pakistani men over death threats to anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders (AP)
• India
  • India edges warily toward accepting more Chinese investment (Nikkei Asia)
  • India’s Modi had advantage in ‘controlled’ election, opposition leader Gandhi says (Reuters)
  • India says mpox case involving traveller is not from current outbreak (Reuters)
  • The U.S.-India relationship will shape the 21st century (The Hill – opinion)
• NSB
  • US plans economic talks with Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus (Financial Times)
  • Bangladesh taking steps to extradite former PM Hasina from India (Al Jazeera)
  • Anger drives Sri Lanka’s first vote after meltdown (Agence France-Presse)
• Central Asia
  • Kazakh Ex-President Nazarbaev Meets With Uzbek Leader Mirziyoev (Radio Free Europe)
  • Kazakh Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Opposition Politician’s Appeal (Radio Free Europe)
  • Russia pressing Central Asian states to embrace nuclear power (EurasiaNet)
• Indo-Pacific
  • Heavy Fighting Breaks Out Again On Afghan-Pakistan Border (Radio Free Europe)
• Twitter
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