• Afghanistan
  • Man Who Says He Helped US Soldiers in Afghanistan Now in ICE Detention (Newsweek)
  • Smartphones banned from schools in Afghan Taliban’s heartland (Agence France-Presse)
  • Abandoning our Afghan allies is a moral and strategic mistake (The Hill – opinion)
• Pakistan
  • Trump hosts Pakistani army chief, disagrees with India over India-Pakistan war mediation (Reuters)
  • Thawing of relations between Pakistan and US raises eyebrows in India (The Guardian)
  • Trump embraces Pakistan: ‘Tactical romance’ or a new ‘inner circle’? (Al Jazeera)
  • Amid US-Pakistan thaw, two key challenges: Iran and China (Al Jazeera)
  • Pakistan fears militants will thrive on restive border if Iran destabilised (Reuters)
  • Quietly, Pakistan Wages a Deadly Drone Campaign Inside Its Own Borders (New York Times)
  • Homeland insecurity: Expelled Afghans seek swift return to Pakistan (Agence France-Presse)
  • Iran’s Nuclear Pursuit and the Pakistani Example (Wall Street Journal – opinion)
• India
  • Trump and India’s Modi split over U.S. role in Pakistan ceasefire (NBC News)
  • India chases Trump tariff deal in wake of UK trade accord (Nikkei Asia)
  • Air India Cuts International Flights After Crash Causes Chaos (New York Times)
  • As Dense Cities Encircle India’s Busiest Airports, Dangers Multiply (New York Times)
  • Air India crash underscores risks of country’s infrastructure boom (Washington Post)
  • Air India warned for flying Airbus planes with unchecked escape slides (Reuters)
  • India says it has yet to decide where to analyse crashed plane’s recorders (Reuters)
  • India and Canada Move to Mend Rift Over Sikh Activist’s Killing (New York Times)
  • India is a perpetrator of foreign interference, Canadian intelligence agency says (Reuters)
  • India targeting Sikh separatist movement in N. America: Canada (Agence France-Presse)
  • India Signals Reluctance to Call Out Israeli Aggression (The Diplomat)
  • India Shuts Down Schools Over Birth Rate Decline (Newsweek)
• NSB
  • India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups (The Guardian)
• Central Asia
  • News analysis: With Russian and Chinese nuclear plants, will Kazakhstan balance the risk, or double it? (EurasiaNet)
  • A Dark Cloud: No Space for Freedom of Expression in Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan (The Diplomat)
  • Why Uzbekistan Seeks to Establish a West-South Transport Axis (The Diplomat)
  • Unfamiliar calm along Central Asia’s long-disputed borders (Agence France-Presse)
• Twitter
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  • India
  • NSB
  • Central Asia

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