• Afghanistan
  • Frustrated With White House, Family of Detained American Reaches Out to Taliban (Wall Street Journal)
  • Choice facing N.Y. judge: Does Taliban leader get war-related immunity? (Washington Post)
  • Leader of Afghanistan’s resistance movement says he will defeat the Taliban ‘no matter the odds’ (CNN)
  • 3 years after US withdrawal, Afghan resistance still ignored by US, West (FOX News)
  • UN will continue to engage the Taliban in Afghanistan despite new laws restricting women (AP)
  • Taliban hires female spies to catch women breaking harsh laws (The Telegraph)
  • A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital, killing at least 6 people and injuring 13 (AP)
  • They fled Afghanistan. In the US, they have freedom – but fear a return (The Guardian)
  • We escaped from Afghanistan. We landed in Houston. Where are we now? (Washington Post – opinion)
  • Working with the Taliban would not legitimate its rule (Washington Post – opinion)
• Pakistan
  • Iran slaps Pakistan with ‘final notice’ over unfinished gas pipeline (Nikkei Asia)
  • Pakistan’s military says insurgents have freed an army officer and 3 others abducted on Wednesday (AP)
  • A roadside bomb hits a bus in northern Pakistan and kills 3 people (AP)
  • A Pakistani religious leader is tried in his absence for allegedly threatening Geert Wilders (AP)
• India
  • India’s growing reliance on China poses challenge for U.S. trade strategy (Washington Post)
  • Worked to the Bone, India’s Doctors Fear for Their Safety, Too (New York Times)
  • Ousted Bangladeshi leader becomes diplomatic headache for India (Agence France-Presse)
• NSB
  • Fears of waterborne disease rise in Bangladesh as floods recede slowly (Reuters)
  • ‘Why was my child killed?’ Parents grieve a month after Bangladesh clashes (Al Jazeera)
  • UAE president pardons Bangladesh citizens jailed for protesting (Reuters)
  • Can humans grow new islands in the world’s lowest-lying country? (CNN)
• Central Asia
  • No rest for the elite: Central Asian leaders stay busy in August fostering trade (EurasiaNet)
  • Kazakh President Announces Date For Controversial Nuclear Plant Project (Radio Free Europe)
  • Kyrgyzstan coming increasingly under China’s economic thumb (EurasiaNet)
  • Kyrgyzstan resettlement of Uzbekistan enclave gets mixed reviews (VOA)
  • Uzbek Leader’s Son-In-Law Building Secretive Compound In Tashkent Worth Millions (Radio Free Europe)
• Indo-Pacific
  • Living in limbo: The struggle of families in South Asia torn by state-enforced disappearances (VOA)
  • Heavy monsoon rains and floods kill at least 33 in south India and 5 children in Pakistan this week (AP)
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SCA MORNING PRESS CLIPS

SCA MORNING PRESS CLIPS