Protests in Pakistan after the killing of Qandeel Baloch.
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Presenting violence of any sort as a cultural issue does not help prevent it.
Kashmiri villagers shout slogans during a funeral of civilians, in Beerwah, north of Srinagar, August 2016.
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`Militancy’ in Kashmir has taken on significantly changed dimensions, described best not by the armed struggle of a few, but by the unarmed, highly discursive resistance over new spaces of protest.
Conference wheels turning.
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The historical animosity remains.
Hindustani classical music played on a river boat in Banaras.
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Are music bans in India and Pakistan an appropriation of art and performances by nationalist imperatives?
At least 70 people died in a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan in August – most of them lawyers.
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A new tool is tracking attacks on people for their religion, politics, caste, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation.
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The ride-sharing app means different things in different countries. In Karachi and Lahore, it has highlighted economic inequalities.
The Indian government risks a serious escalation of violence if the Pakistani government and militant groups in that country respond with even more attacks.
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As the latest attack on an Indian army camp shows, India’s shift in policy from strategic restraint to preemptive self-defence is a serious gamble.
Members of the Non-Aligned Movement meet at the session of the 17th summit of heads of state and government.
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The Non-Aligned Movement member states enjoy cohesion on few issues. Historically, their heterogeneity ranged from absolute monarchs to socialist presidents.
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A long-festering military and diplomatic sore has been dramatically reopened. Can it ever be healed?
EPA/Yahya Arhab
If Trump becomes president, he’ll inherit one of the US’s most dangerous military tools.
Urdu-language maxims adorn a school in the Swat Valley, Pakistan.
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India and Pakistan wanted to replace colonial English with national languages after independence. The process is still far from over.
Protests in Karachi against Altaf Hussain, the British-based Pakistani politician.
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Could this be the end of the road for the London-based leader of Pakistani’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement?
Protests in Islamabad against the killing of Qandeel Baloch.
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What the law in Pakistan says about honour killings.
The scene of the drone strike said to have killed the Taliban’s leader.
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Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor was a tough and smart strategist who held the Taliban together and crushed dissent. Will his legacy endure?
Villages across Nepal remain strewn with rubble, the quake victims still living in tents and flimsy sheds.
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Over 8,500 were killed in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, so how is the country coping?
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Minorities are increasingly facing exclusion from Pakistan’s public realm; and it’s not only terrorists who are responsible.
EPA/Rahat Dar
Lahore’s Easter Sunday suicide attack is the latest chapter in Jamaat-ul-Ahrar’s campaign against the Pakistani government – and people.
Without the perfect-storm conditions of post-invasion insurgency, this most potent expression of al-Qaedaism yet would never have risen to dominate both the Middle East and the world in the way that it does.
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The final article of our series on the historical roots of Islamic State examines the role recent Western intervention in the Middle East played in the group’s inexorable rise.
Reuters/Khuram Parvez
The Pakistani Taliban has shown it can still mount terror attacks in the country’s frontier province … despite a major military offensive.
Violence has become a normal part of life in Somalia and some other countries.
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A growing field of policy analysis now focuses on reducing armed violence. Remarkable consensus has emerged at high policy levels around the basic elements of an approach to reduce violence.