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Afghan President Hamid Karzai

UN diplomat accused of plot to discredit Karzai

American denies claim and highlights the West's failure to confront fraud in Afghan elections

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Zardari vows to fight for role in Pakistan's future

Friday, 18 December 2009

Pakistan's beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday vowed that he was ready to fight his opponents even as he faced repeated calls to step down.

Lawyers shout support for the Supreme Court ruling which could see charges against Asif Ali Zardari

New crisis for Pakistan as Zardari faces corruption charges

Thursday, 17 December 2009

President faces calls to quit as Supreme Court throws out amnesty

Aung San Suu Kyi's meeting with party elders sparked election rumours

Suu Kyi urges rejuvenation of her party at rare meeting

Thursday, 17 December 2009

The detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday called for the reorganisation and rejuvenation of her ageing political party, triggering speculation that it might be considering taking part in next year's controversial election.

A woman walks in the street as soldiers look on in the town

The most traumatised place in the world

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Andrew Buncombe: Independent Appeal charity helping families living with violence in Kashmir

Goa MP says rape after midnight 'not a crime'

Thursday, 17 December 2009

An Indian politician has sparked outrage after he suggested that cases when a woman was raped after staying out past midnight should be treated differently to other sexual attacks.

The abuse of privilege and heavy liquor drinking by state officials has angered ordinary Chinese

Binge-drinking deaths shame China

Thursday, 17 December 2009

A senior Chinese police officer who tried to have a subordinate registered as a "martyr" after he was killed by a drinking binge has been suspended by a disciplinary committee.

Andrew Buncombe: Irish peace forum to investigate the conduct of Sri Lanka's war

Thursday, 17 December 2009

I was in Sri Lanka last week working on a couple of stories and was amazed how both the mood and the landscape had changed.

Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

A suicide bomber has killed two British soldiers who were on a “hearts on a mind” mission to meet members of the local community in Helmand.

A victim is taken away from the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul yesterday

Eight die in Kabul suicide attack

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

A devastating suicide bomb tore through Kabul's diplomatic quarter yesterday, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others in what appeared to be an assassination attempt on a former vice-president in Hamid Karzai's government.

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh wait for a Chinook helicopter to land during a training exercise ahead of their deployment to Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the only game in town

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Kim Sengupta: Despite calls that defence strategy should not be too Afghancentric, the message is clear.

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