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    Afghan Graduates in Pakistan Fear Degrees May Become Worthless Amid Attestation Crisis

    The longer the uncertainty lasts, the greater the chance that educational investments made in Pakistan will fail to translate into futures.
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    Sri Lanka: Proposed NGO Law Sparks Alarm Over Civic Freedoms

    The question is whether the solution lies in expanding state powers so extensively that the line between regulation and control disappears.
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    Air

    India Placed Second-Last in Global Environmental Performance Index 2026

    Expanding energy access, industrialisation and urban growth have lifted millions out of poverty but intensified local pollution and emissions.
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    Child mortality

    Trump Orders Fewer Childhood Vaccines and Split MMR Shots

    As schools reopen after the summer break, paediatricians and public health officials face a more complicated landscape.
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    Civil society

    Pakistan: Balochistan’s Press Under Siege; PECA as a Tool of Control

    In Balochistan the pressures are layered: state agencies, political and tribal elites, and non-state armed groups – all exert influence.
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    Agri-business

    Thali Costs Climb: Veg Up 4%, Non-Veg 9% in July, Says CRISIL

    For families across India, the everyday plate has become a clearer mirror of both local harvest risks and distant geopolitical currents.
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    Accountability

    PoJK Unrest Lays Bare Pakistan’s Fragile State

    The experts concluded that the cycle of protest and crackdown is not an aberration but a structural feature of a military-dominated state that cannot negotiate with its own citizens.
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    Agriculture

    Bangladesh: Small Farmers Feed the Nation but Earn a Fraction

    Agriculture continues to employ a large share of the workforce and remains central to rural poverty reduction.
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    Judges determined there are reasonable grounds to believe the four ordered, induced or solicited the crime against humanity of persecution on gender and political grounds.
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    ICC Unseals Arrest Warrants for Four Senior Taliban Officials Over Gender Persecution

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