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Supporters of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan protest outside the court in Islamabad to demand his release" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Ground staff stand next to the Pakistan International Airline aircraft ahead of its takeoff for Paris at the Islamabad International Airport " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Ryan Corbett (L), George Glezmann (C) and Mahmoud Habibi (R) are the American citizens held ‘hostage’ by Taliban in Afghanistan " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Khaleda Zia" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Malala Yousafzai" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Passengers board a Pakistan International Airlines flight" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Local residents gather as rescuers conduct an operation to recover coal mine workers following a methane gas explosion that caused a coal mine to collapse in Singidi, a remote area of southwest Pakistan’s Balochistan province, Friday, 10 January 2025" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Miners join a search for fellow workers at a coal mine following a gas explosion" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Mark Wood of England is bowled by Rashid Khan of Afghanistan for the final wicket of the match during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup India 2023 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A Kung Fu nun practises before her performance during the reopening of the nunnery for the first time since the COVID-19 closure at Druk Amitabha Mountain Nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal December 30, 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
The order applies to both new buildings and existing ones, according to a four-clause decree posted on social media site X" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Demonstrators wave Bangladesh's national flag during a rally in Dhaka celebrating the ousting of the country's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. A Taliban prison guard stands next to a poster ordering women to cover themselves during the distribution of new uniforms in Jalalabad on 5 February 2023" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
An Afghan security personnel uses his phone at the site of an alleged blast in Kabul" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
An Afghan woman sits next to a grave reciting the holy Koran at a cemetery on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File: Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the media at a vandalized metro station in Mirpur" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Police officer takes position at the Sarband police station on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on 9 February 2023 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A fishing trawler believed to be carrying Rohingya refugees from Myanmar rescued by Sri Lankan army" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Pakistan has a troubled history with elephants in captivity" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Myanmar soldiers" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Afghanistan’s minister for refugees, Khalil Haqqani, inspects a refugee camp near the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border last month " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
An armed Taliban guard stands over prisoners in Kandahar " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
An Afghan man and a burqa-clad woman ride a motorcycle along a street on the outskirts of Kandahar" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Supporters of the Islami Andolan Bangladesh party shout slogans during a protest against India in Dhaka" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Bushra Bibi, centre, and members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party lead a rally demanding Imran Khan’s release in Islamabad on 26 November 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Expert warns the new measures are part of an wider pattern which sees the Taliban taking ‘more and more from women’ and further restricting their lives" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Afghan men and women ride on donkeys along a street in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Local residents and volunteers gather and wait for the arrival of victims of gunmen firing incident on passenger vehicles, at a hospital in Parachinar, in Kurram district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Thursday, 21 November 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Bushra Bibi, centre, wife of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan and leaders of Khan's party lead their supporters during a rally demanding Khan's release" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Paramilitary soldiers try to detain supporter of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on top of shipping container during protest demanding release of former prime minister Imran Khan at the Red Zone area in Islamabad on 26 November 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Nearly a million Rohingya refugees still live in Bangladesh’s fragile settlements" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Russian secretary of security council Sergei Shoigu sits down with the Taliban’s minister of interior affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along a street near a car with a photograph of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, in Islamabad on 27 November" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A supporter of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party gestures after tear gas was fired by the police to disperse the crowd during a protest to demand the release of former prime minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on 26 November 2024 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Bangladeshi Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu shows a victory sign as he is taken in a police van after court ordered him detained pending further proceedings in Chattogram" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Pakistan's army troops and police officers take positions at D-Chowk square close to Red Zone, which is an area that houses key government buildings" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Security personnel detain a supporter of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party during a protest demanding his release in Lahore" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Taliban security personnel stand guard at an entrance gate of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Kabul on 16 October 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Long way home: Ry Webb and Laura Murphy at Tumlingtar airport in Nepal" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Activists of the anti-discrimination student movement hold national flags and protest against the Awami League party in Bangladesh" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Commuters ride along a street engulfed in smog in Lahore" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Sri Lanka’s president and National People’s Power (NPP) party leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake gestures as he leaves after casting his vote" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake leaves a polling station after casting his vote in the parliamentary election in Colombo on 14 November 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. A bridge is swept away by a lake outburst at Hassanabad village of Gilgit-Baltistan region, Pakistan " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File Chittagong Port in Bangladesh" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Chanu Nimesha campaigns in Warakapola, Sri Lanka, on 8 November 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Satellite imagery of toxic smog over Pakistan seen on 12 November 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Bhutan’s Great Buddha Dordenma statue near Thimphu" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
People mourn deaths of relatives outside a hospital " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Climber Ondrej Huserka fell to his death after climbing the world’s 99th highest peak" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File: Pakistan army Lt Gen Syed Asim Munir attends ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, 1 Nov 2022" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A train travels along an urban line in Lahore, Pakistan, 3 November 2024, amidst alarming levels of air pollution" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Pakistan terror attack " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Taliban’s minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice Mohammad Khalid Hanafi speaks during a ceremony announcing a dress code from women in Kabul on 7 May 2022" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A vendor arranges inflated toys while waiting for customers at the Galle Face Beach during sunset in Colombo on September 24, 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Security personnnel gather as they block a road in the northwestern border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Foreign tourists spend the evening at the Galle Face beachfront in Colombo, Sri Lanka" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Bangladesh army personnel stand guard behind barbed wire and barricades at the entrance of the residence of president Mohammed Shahabuddin in Dhaka, 23 Oct 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Afghan journalists at a press briefing by de facto foreign affairs minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul on 19 September 2024 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Imran Khan with his wife Bushra Bibi " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
The train driver said that the herd of nearly 20 elephants suddenly tried to cross over the railway track" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. A health worker administers polio vaccine to a child during in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 12 September 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Nawaz Sharif addresses party workers in Lahore, Pakistan, on 9 February 2024" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Widespread protests break out in Pakistan after rape of a college student " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Jemima Goldsmith" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File: A SriLankan Airlines Airbus A330 at Zurich International Airport 2 March 2012" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
TV anchor Nesar Nabil wears a face mask to protest the Taliban's new order that female presenters cover their faces, as he reads the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. Armymen inspect the site of a bomb attack in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on 31 August 2023 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
People wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Colombo, Sri Lanka " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
The enduring mystery of Mallory and Irvine may finally have been solved after 100 years" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Miners and labourers at a funeral for victims of the terror attack in Duki district of Balochistan province, Pakistan " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Nima Rinji Sherpa during one of his expeditions in Nepal" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
File. An Afghan policewoman salutes during a graduation ceremony in Herat in 2014 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
The Dhaulagiri mountain range in the Himalayas is seen from the village of Nagi, some 200km west of Kathmandu, Nepal " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Security officials examine at the site of an explosion which occured near Karachi airport in Karachi" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a Pakistan International Airlines plane takes off" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
A vehicle is seen on fire at the site of an explosion outside the Karachi airport in Pakistan " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Security force members use an inflatable raft to rescue residents from a flooded area near the bank of the overflowing Bagmati River" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Mahmood Shah Habibi, a senior official in the previous Nato-backed Afghan regime, was reportedly arrested by the Taliban in 2022 " class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
Harini Amarasuriya is sworn in as new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">
US actress Meryl Streep arrives for an event on ‘The Inclusion of Women in the Future of Afghanistan’ on the sidelines of the UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 bNNNXy sc-ntudqq-2 kReBNB">