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South Asia
Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and their neighbours.
Research
Plots and Armies: How Territory Decides What Terrorism Becomes
The ground a militant group holds decides how many people it can kill.
Analysis
Kabul Vetoes Its Own Words in Moscow
The Taliban blocked wording in Moscow that they had signed a year earlier.
Fact Check
India Claims It Killed Mohammad Asif. He Disagrees.
Indian media gave a dead militant a Pakistan Army career. He is alive.
Research
The Kabul Assurances
The Taliban’s 2021 commitments, tested against five years of the record.
More From South Asia
Explainer
The Mecca Pact and the India Question
What a three-way defence pact changes between Pakistan and India.
Column
Everyone Wants Reform. Nobody Wants to Pay for It.
Pakistan knows what needs fixing. The question is who will lose power to do it.
Analysis
The Twelve-Year Myth That Broke in a Fortnight
His power rested on a single claim, and a crowd without a leader broke it.
Column
Why Gen Z Toppled Three Rulers. Is India Next?
Three governments chose to clear the street rather than concede something small.
Analysis
A Treaty Violation and the Authority of Law
Pakistan has won in The Hague and behaved by the book.
Column
No Asterisks. No Disclaimers. Just Pakistan.
Pakistan announced the end of a war, and the document carries its name.
Newsletter
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