カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Anger after UK lays on rescue flights for Britons in China and Peru, but not Pakistan Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government has been accused of abandoning hundreds of Britons stranded in Pakistan while sending rescu…
Thousands of Australians caught up in India’s sweeping lockdown are pleading for government help to get homeFollow our Australia coronavirus blog for live newsCoronavirus – global updatesThousands of Australians caught by India’s dramatic nationwide sh…
Country also overtakes China in terms of total number of infectionsCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageItaly has recorded its single biggest leap in coronavirus deaths, announcing that 969 people have died from Covid-19 i…
Hundreds of citizens are stuck in countries including Nepal and Pakistan, lacking consular support Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage A cross-party group of more than 60 MPs has urged the government to arrange charter flights …
A three-week nationwide lockdown has been imposed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts, in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus Continue reading…
China shuts its borders to foreign visitors, and Russia closes all bars and restaurantsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Spanish government has defended its response to the coronavirus pandemic as the death rate in the cou…
Families say Foreign Office is doing ‘precious little’ to get their relatives back homeThe families of six British coronavirus patients in an Indian hospital have demanded London step up its efforts to move them to safer accommodation as hundreds of UK…
Isis gunmen held hostages for hours while Afghan special forces tried to end siegeGunmen and suicide bombers have killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and children, and injured many others in an early morning attack on a Sikh Gurdwara in the…
There are fears measures will be unenforceable and that India’s health system could collapseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn eerie quiet had descended over a city usually overflowing with chaos on Wednesday morning. As Del…
Rani Bibi was 14 when she was convicted but received no compensation for the miscarriages of justice that led to her spending two decades in prisonA child bride who spent 19 years in prison for a murder she did not commit is to sue the Pakistan authori…
Mike Pompeo suggests funding could be restored if President Ashraf Ghani and political rival Abdullah Abdullah reach dealThe US has said it will cut its aid to Afghanistan by $1bn, blaming the failure of President Ashraf Ghani and his main political ri…
Attempt to save stalled Afghanistan peace process comes as most world leaders have curtailed travel due to coronavirus Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has arrived in Kabul on an urgent…
Horror over the west’s failure to contain Covid-19 will pale by comparison if it sweeps the developing worldCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThough Africa has fewer coronavirus cases and a slower rate of infection than the UK…
Until India accepts brutality begets brutality, plague of sexual violence will go onIt was a grisly end to a story that has been a stain on India for almost eight years. The hanging on Friday morning of the four men who carried out the 2012 gang-rape a…
Walls have been raised and societies quarantined as people enter a new realityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt should not have come as a surprise. Life had already been upended in China. Iran and Italy have been reeling fo…