Tag: South Asia

A massive crowd waits at an electoral rally on Feb. 5 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Flags of blue, the color of India’s anti-caste movement, flash on a street brimming with ...

NEW DELHI — Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by a billion people in South Asia, has died. She was 92. ...

Last month, Pakistan released an official national security policy document for the first time. The unclassified version makes for interesting reading, both for the themes it addresses and for those ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The Ukraine crisis puts India in a diplomatic bind, Norway hosts a conference with Taliban officials, and 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 ...