Tag: South Asia

This month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Sri Lanka and the Maldives. On the surface, the trip was part of an effort by China to make further inroads into ...

Much remains unknown about what prompted British citizen Malik Faisal Akram to fly to New York, make his way to Texas, and take four people hostage in a synagogue in ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Why Pakistan and the Taliban are clashing over a border fence, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani breaks his silence, ...

On Christmas, as revelers thronged Kolkata’s fashionable Park Street and St. Paul’s Cathedral held a midnight mass, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government blocked the Missionaries of Charity, the organization ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. This week, we round up some of the biggest stories in the region this year, from India’s COVID-19 catastrophe to the fall of ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: What sanctions mean for U.S.-Bangladesh relations, Taliban officials rail against their Pakistani patron, and India boosts ties with Sri ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: What South Asia makes of the White House democracy summit, Russia-India relations receive a boost, and India’s chief of ...

This past month, Lahore, Pakistan, has repeatedly topped the daily ranking of most polluted city in the world. Pollution and winter weather conditions combine to shroud the city in smog—disrupting ...

Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August, foreign aid has frequently been framed as a possible lever the international community can use to push them to moderate their rule. ...

In February, U.S. President Joe Biden declared, “diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy” and “we will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again.” ...