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Yesterday, the streets of the city were deserted

Karzai inaugurated – but where were the crowds?

Rejoicing is in short supply in the Afghan capital as the President's second term begins

Inside Asia

Founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Killers of 'the father of Bangladesh' likely to hang

Friday, 20 November 2009

34 years after coup d'etat, officers convicted of killing Rahman lose their appeal

Barack Obama shows his skills in the Korean martial art of taekwondo to the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak

Behind Asia's nice manners, tough lessons for Obama

Friday, 20 November 2009

Frustrating tour of Asia has left America with much to think about

First challenge for Karzai is to approve corruption charges

Friday, 20 November 2009

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's promise to stamp out corruption has come up against its first test with the revelation that indictments against five high-ranking politicians on charges thought to range from embezzlement to money-laundering need only his signature to proceed.

Suicide bomber kills 19 in Peshawar bomb blast

Friday, 20 November 2009

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a courthouse in Pakistan yesterday, killing 19 people in the latest attack by Islamist militants retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.

Sam Zarifi: If Afghanistan fails, who will pay the price?

Friday, 20 November 2009

Debate about the risks faced by the international community in supporting President Hamid Karzai’s “corrupt” Afghan government regularly omits the people that matter most: Afghans.

Hamid Karzai delivers a speech during his swearing-in ceremony as Afghanistan's president for another five years

Karzai sworn in as Afghan leader

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Veteran Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president today, pledging to fight graft and take control of his country's security before his five-year term ends, after a fraud-marred election left his image in ruins.

19 killed in Peshawar blast outside court

Thursday, 19 November 2009

A suicide bomber killed 19 people today outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.

'Alarm Bell', with its extravagantly-dressed presenters, has no shortage of material as it pokes fun at politicians

Political satire show has Afghans glued to their TVs

Thursday, 19 November 2009

'Alarm Bell' creator has been threatened and beaten but jokes about Karzai go on

Rickshaw gambler killed over 6p bet

Thursday, 19 November 2009

A Indian card player was killed after an argument over winnings of just

Fall of the Indian rope trick

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Andrew Buncombe: Magician who mesmerised the world reduced to performing in a fast-food joint as his country embraces ways of the West.

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