Most of the remaining countries where Islam is the official faith are in the Asia-Pacific region, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaysia. ..…

The most common region of origin for Muslim immigrants is South Asia, where one-in-five U.S. Muslims were born, including 9% who were born in Pakistan. An additional 13% of U.S. ..…

South and East Asia is defined to include Afghanistan, Pakistan and countries east of them. The Middle East includes Southwest Asia from Iran and westward to Turkey and Cyprus plus countries in North Africa. ..…

While apostasy laws in only two other regions of Asia-Pacific and sub-Saharan Africa blasphemy laws can be found in all regions, including Europe and Americas .. ... Pakistan is one of 12 of the 50 countries in Asia-Pacific region that had blasphemy laws in 2014. ..…

Several new Muslim-majority states emerged in the Caspian basin and Central Asia from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, neighboring the self-declared 'Islamic Republics' of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. ..…

The Sunni–Shia struggle set in motion by the American invasion of Iraq has become the vortex of a violent political struggle that stretches from South Asia to the Gulf. ... Bin Laden is dead, but in Pakistan and Somalia and Yemen the drones go on striking, killing by now several thousand,..…

The dilemma facing American policy makers is well summarized in the forthcoming book by Vali Nasr, a former State Department adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although his interest is the Muslim world and not so much the territories of East Asia, Nasr describes China and its foreign..…

While the Uighur populations in Central Asia have been largely silenced, some Uighurs have been training and fighting with the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. . ... It subsequently joined with both al-Qaeda and the Taliban and its leaders are now, after a twelve-year sojourn in..…

About one-fifth of international migrants have moved to the Asia-Pacific region, settling in such places as India, Australia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. ..…

Asia has the concentration of Muslim population, with Indonesia contributing the largest numbers, and Pakistan and India second and third respectively ( For detailed look at the distribution of Muslim, see this analysis from Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. ..…

Five of the 10 countries in the world with very high social hostilities as of mid-2009 were in the Asia-Pacific region: Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Ten of the 30 countries with high social hostilities also were in Asia-Pacific, including populous..…

References: Rediff, Reuters, AFP, The Daily Times, Pakistan Tribune, Zone Asia, Dawn, The Daily Times .   . ..…

Barack Obama is now asking for 20,000 of the NATO troops, which were temporarily deployed to Afghanistan for the period leading to the upcoming election, to stay on as part of the stepped-up occupation of Afghanistan and the broader strategy he's pursuing in Afghanistan and Pakistan right now. . He's..…

The problem is complex, and we do not know yet how it will end, except we have opened new prospects for relations with Afghanistan, and with the states of Central Asia, Pakistan, Russia, and, as it may develop, of Southwest Asia more generally... ..…

In the late nineteen-eighties, when perestroika began to take hold in the Soviet Union, there was an explosion of interest in Islam in Central Asia. Thousands of mosques were built, Korans and other Islamic literature were brought in from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and distributed free among..…

Bangladesh upset Pakistan to enter Asia Cup final . September 27, 2018 . . . . ..…

Politics and class relations in every state in South Asia, from Sri Lanka and tiny Maldives to India and its arch-rival Pakistan, are being convulsed by the region’s emergence as a central arena of imperialist and great power conflict. . ... Bring the program of permanent revolution to..…