Uzbekistan is betting that cooperation with the Afghanistan and the Taliban on infrastructure projects will pay off.

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Nepal, which houses the SAARC Secretariate, hedges its foreign policy in regional geopolitics. Sandwiched between India and ...

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) must be “uncompromising” in its fight against “terrorism, separatism and extremism”. That was External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s message at the ...

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In a forceful address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Tianjin, ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has left much of its 41 million people mired in poverty.