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    Pakistan’s ghost villages limp back to peace and life

    About 38 villages in the Kurram district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were razed to the ground during the sectarian violence in 2007. Now, a...
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    Talk of climate change in SouthAsia has been pending since the last SAARC summit held in Kathmandu in 2014. SAARC nations have not met...
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    In what is evidently part and parcel of China’s Belt-and-Road initiative, China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration has sought closer links between Chinese grotto temples...
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    Civil society

    Public health emergencies are our past, our present, and we will face them again

    Never before has the need for a localised approach to crises been so evident. Jagan Chapagain As we end this year, I would like to pay...
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    Afghanistan

    An infuriating, man-made catastrophe points toward massive suffering for Afghan families

    Children are in need of emergency aid. They are hungry. The anguish on the parents' faces cannot hide their desperation. Such is the situation...
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