Pakistan

The balance-of-payments crisis and likely IMF talks could undermine Beijing’s investments.

Kazakh case draws attention to plight of hundreds of thousands detained in Xinjiang

Assam's citizenship crisis is the latest legacy of a division that made nations.

Female members of Imran Khan’s party claim that Pakistan’s new leader has their interests at heart. Does he?

As an athlete, Khan was universally loved. As a politician, he's deeply polarizing.

A checkered democratic history, from 1947 to the present day.

Hundreds of thousands of Uighur have been detained without trial in China's western region of Xinjiang.

The fiery electoral front-runner will be hemmed in on all sides if he wins.

The military thinks elections give it a facade to rule from above. But that plan keeps backfiring.

A temporary Taliban truce, despite the opportunity it presents, doesn’t mean peace is about to break out anytime soon.

China's vast foreign investment program comes at a sharp cost to human rights and good governance

A prominent Pakistani doctor suspects he is on the no-fly list. He’s demanding the right to find out why.

The United States can’t sit back and watch as China quietly colonizes the West.

Trump has resumed the bombing campaign in Pakistan, but this time it’s targeting the Taliban.

The White House is talking tough, but previous U.S. presidents never managed to persuade Islamabad to fight Afghan militants.

The real threat to Turkey isn’t the Kurds. It’s the Islamic State.

There’s no clear upside — and plenty of potential downsides — to punching Pyongyang in the nose.

Why Islamabad isn’t worried about threats to cut off U.S. aid

Even after the Pentagon chief’s visit to Islamabad, the two sides remain at an impasse.

A brave new book describes how Pakistan unraveled — and provides a blueprint for understanding declining pluralism across the Middle East.