Pakistan

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the youngest foreign minister in Pakistan's history, recently visited the U.S. in an effort to repair ties between the countries.
Interview

Pakistan foreign minister: China debt is price of development

Bhutto-Zardari wants to bridge U.S.-Sino divide, calls India 'rich and evil'

7 October 2022
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Podcast

Asia Stream: Exclusive -- The Toughest Job in Asia

When Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari became Pakistan's youngest foreign minister six months ago, the nuclear-armed country stood on the brink. It still does.

7 October 2022
A guard stands in a watchtower of Kashgar prison in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China on May 3, 2021.
International relations

U.N. rights council rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghurs

Motion to discuss Xinjiang suffers rare defeat as Indonesia and Pakistan oppose it

6 October 2022
Women displaced because of flooding wait for food handouts at a refugee camp in Sehwan, Pakistan, on Sept. 30.
Economy

ADB to give Pakistan up to $2.5bn in flood relief support

Announcement comes amid new dangers from waterborne diseases and hunger

6 October 2022
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan gives a speech in Peshawar on Sept. 6. Access to YouTube was disrupted during the live-streamed address.
Politics

Pakistan ex-PM Khan feels squeeze from TV, YouTube, VPN curbs

Ousted leader says he faces 'blackout' as some question his own record on censorship

3 October 2022
A Pakistan military helicopter: A recent crash has turned a spotlight on separatist insurgents in Balochistan, though experts question their claims that they shot the aircraft down.
Politics

Pakistan army helicopter crash stirs rumors, spotlights insurgency

Experts link increased Baloch militant activity to destabilization in Afghanistan

30 September 2022
Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's minister for climate change, says that global warming poses an existential threat to the country and that "this calamity has not been triggered by anything we have done."
Interview

'The country is broken': Pakistan climate minister urges justice

Rehman says floods have taken nuclear-armed nation 'back half a century'

29 September 2022
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari trade places to deliver remarks after meeting at the State Department in Washington on Sept. 26.
International relations

India, China loom over Pakistan's push to repair ties with U.S.

Restart of Washington's military assistance to Islamabad upsets New Delhi

28 September 2022
Pakistan's Ishaq Dar in 2016. 
Politics

Ishaq Dar to become Pakistan's finance minister for fourth time

Appointment comes at time of economic crisis and floods

27 September 2022
A vendor sells vegetables in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Aug. 31. The country's inflation rate hit 27.3% in the month, the highest in decades.
Economy

Pakistan's IMF loan shows few signs of stopping economic slide

'Hope is not a strategy,' economist says, calling for more drastic measures

24 September 2022
Indian and Pakistan supporters cheer for their teams during Asia cup in Dubai on Aug. 28. India's victory over Pakistan in an Asia Cup cricket match on Aug. 28 is seen as the catalyst for the violence in Leicester, one of the most racially diverse cities in the U.K.
Society

India and Pakistan wade in over Hindu-Muslim clashes in U.K. city

47 people have been arrested in Leicester since Aug. 28

22 September 2022
Vegetable vendors at a roadside market in Jakarta on Sept. 12. Indonesia is one emerging Asian economy that is forecast to grow faster than expected this year.
Economy

Emerging Asia growing faster than China for 1st time in 30 years

Indonesia, Philippines are bright spots but India, Pakistan faltering, says ADB

21 September 2022
Pakistan's embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives for a court appearance in early September.
Politics

Pakistan's Imran Khan faces indictment but PM Sharif feels the heat

Ex-leader's contempt case may foil comeback, yet experts see risks for government

21 September 2022
Apple periodically adjusts prices in different regions and reduced them for eurozone countries last year to adjust for currencies and taxes.
Technology

Apple to raise app prices in Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia

South Korea and Pakistan also included in list of countries as dollar strengthens

21 September 2022
A report by Freedom House says the Chinese Communist Party "and its proxies are using more sophisticated and coercive tactics to shape media narratives and suppress critical reporting" -- accusations Beijing rejects.
Asia Insight

China builds global media muscle to amplify its message

Study shows how country with dismal press freedom record sways reporting abroad

20 September 2022
The logo of the Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing 2019
Belt and Road

China slows foreign lending as Belt and Road problem loans triple

Sri Lanka falls into debt crisis while Pakistan is strapped for cash

20 September 2022
Pakistanis wade through flooded fields on Sept. 4 in Balochistan: The U.N.'s World Food Program plans to bring food aid to 2 million people by mid-October but is still raising money.
Natural disasters

In flooded Pakistan, 11m people deal with severe food insecurity

Nation pays price of global warming, U.N. World Food Program official says

17 September 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, meets Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 16.
International relations

Pakistan and China hail 'brotherhood' but IMF terms spell friction

Xi-Sharif meeting overshadowed by Islamabad's need to renegotiate power deals

17 September 2022
Family members sit on rope beds beside their damaged house in Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan, on Aug. 25: Pakistan's floods should be a wake-up call for the world.
Opinion

Pakistan is owed reparations, not aid, by U.S. and China

Polluting countries owe debt for climate-change harms

16 September 2022
A man rides a boat in a flooded area of Sehwan, Pakistan on Sept. 15. The disaster bears the "fingerprints" of global warming, a scientist said.
Climate Change

Pakistan floods linked to global warming in new study

Scientists suggest heavy rainfall is 50% to 75% more intense due to climate change

16 September 2022
After record rain during this year's monsoon season, much of Pakistan was overwhelmed by floods in late August. These submerged buildings are in Jafferabad, Balochistan.
The Big Story

Pakistan floods drive calls for climate justice

The rift between rich, carbon-emitting countries and the vulnerable, developing world is widening

14 September 2022
Flood victims receive boiled rice from relief workers in Charsadda, Pakistan, in late August. The deluge has had a devastating impact on the country's rice and other crops.
Natural disasters

Pakistan faces hunger crisis as floods wash away crops, livestock

Damage risks compounding inflation and further straining government coffers

13 September 2022
The severe flooding in Pakistan has not only cut off access to prenatal care, but also raised fears over the health of babies born in harsh conditions. (Photo by Jamaima Afridi)
Natural disasters

Pakistan floods disrupt health care for 650,000 pregnant women

Experts warn of dire risks as expectant mothers recount harrowing experiences

12 September 2022
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh at a civic ceremony in New Delhi during the Royal Tour of India, circa January 1961.
International relations

Legacy of decency: Asian leaders pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

Monarch was frequent visitor to region during her 70-year reign

9 September 2022
Shehbaz Sharif on April 12 when he was installed as prime minister in Islamabad : The latest aid deal will not cure Pakistan's political instability. (Handout photo from Pakistan's Press Information Department)
Opinion

IMF aid deal will not end Pakistan's political instability

Fund should have demanded cuts to elite benefits rather than burdened public

9 September 2022