Afghanistan
US reviewing visa programs as official says Afghanistan could be included in Trump travel ban (CNN)
He Was Once a Covert Taliban Operative. Now He’s the Friendly Taxman. (New York Times)
Taliban insist Afghan women’s rights are protected as UN says bans cannot be ignored (AP)
UN urges Taliban to end restrictions on girls on International Women’s Day (VOA)
Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face imminent return after USAID cuts (BBC)
Greenland and Afghanistan: Frontiers in race for critical minerals (VOA)
Selfie sticks and AK-47s: the surreal rise of Taliban tourism (Business Insider)
Pakistan
Afghans promised a future in the U.S. now fear deportation from Pakistan (Washington Post)
Pakistan asks illegal foreigners, Afghan Citizen Card holders to leave by March 31 (Reuters)
Pakistan orders documented Afghan migrants to leave (VOA)
How the Kabul airport blast mastermind was captured and what it means for US-Pakistan relations (The Telegraph)
‘My childhood just slipped away’: Pakistan’s ‘monsoon brides’ (Al Jazeera)
India
India Signals Readiness to Make Deeper Tariff Cuts, Trump Says (Bloomberg)
US pushes India to lower tariffs, buy more defence products for fair new deal (Reuters)
India says it is working to cut tariffs as it eyes US trade deal (VOA)
India signs $248 million deal with Russia for advanced battle tank engines (Reuters)
An Israeli woman and her Indian host were gang raped in southern India, police say (AP)
Third gang-rape suspect arrested as tourists flee popular Indian travel destination (The Independent)
Seven-year ‘nightmare’ of Scottish activist held in an Indian jail (BBC)
The Guardian view on Modi redrawing India’s electoral map: deepening a dangerous north-south divide (The Guardian – opinion)
NSB
Muhammad Yunus on picking up the pieces in Bangladesh after ‘monumental’ damage by Sheikh Hasina’s rule (The Guardian)
Police in Bangladesh use batons and tear gas to disperse rally by banned Islamist group (AP)
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Brace for Upcoming Food Reductions as Aid Agencies Cut Funding (AP)
Thousands in Nepal want monarchy back as public frustration with politics grows (AP)
A resort entirely staffed and run by women in Sri Lanka seeks to break gender barriers (AP)
Central Asia
Russia says OPEC+ may reverse oil output after April, Kazakhstan pledges cuts (Reuters)
Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Accord Not Universally Popular In Kyrgyz Political Elite (Eurasia Review – opinion)
Indo-Pacific
Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo following human rights criticism (AP)
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