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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, India misses you.
With a deadly attack on its embassy in Afghanistan, Pakistani troops clashing with its soldiers in disputed Kashmir and Islamic militants bombing its cities, India has in recent months seemed a country under siege.
The leaders of India and Afghanistan on Monday decried last month's bombing of New Delhi's mission in the Afghan capital — but made no mention of the country both hold responsible for the attack: Pakistan.
It's a cycle India has seen repeated 13 times in nearly three years: Bombs are planted where they can kill as many people as possible. Investigations follow, memories fade and months later, bombs explode in another city.
The U.S. ambassador to India said Wednesday he hoped a landmark deal on nuclear energy cooperation with the United States could be sent to Congress for approval in September, one day after India's government won a confidence vote that paves the way for the agreement to move forward.
India's prime minister has long been regarded as the consummate non-politician, a sober technocrat more comfortable with the arcane details of economic policy than the rough-and-tumble world of Indian politics.
What does it take to secure the vote of an Indian lawmaker these days? Six million dollars, says a top politician. And that's not all that's being offered.
India's leaders considered pushing ahead with a landmark U.S.-India nuclear energy deal Friday, a move that could bring down the government and lead to early elections, two people involved in the deliberations said.
Indian politicians have lambasted President Bush for saying the South Asian country's increasing prosperity is partly to blame for the rising price of food around the world.
India tartly dismissed American advice that it press Iran to give up its nuclear program, saying it does not need "any guidance" on foreign relations.
Two years after coming out of the bush, Nepal's Maoists are marching across the Himalayan kingdom — just not in the way many thought they would.
It was a surprising sight in a land grown accustomed to surprises: the king at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz, driving himself and his queen through the crowded streets of Katmandu.
Long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan ended a century of absolute monarchy Monday by electing a staunch royalist as its first prime minister.
He's known as Prachanda — "the fierce one" — and after a decade leading a communist insurgency from the shadows, he's taken center stage in Nepal's election campaign.
India must work fast to finalize its landmark nuclear energy deal with the United States, a top American diplomat warned Wednesday as India's prime minister said he was trying to overcome fierce domestic opposition to the pact.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Kenya's rival politicians Monday that a power-sharing solution to a bloody political crisis would enhance the country's relationship with the United States.
As the bus slows for a police checkpoint, hawkers rush up pushing ears of corn, sodas and fried treats toward the open windows.
More than a century ago, European colonists carved up Africa, jamming together people who spoke different languages, danced to different music and worshipped different gods within the same borders.
A delegation sent by the U.N.'s top human rights official began a mission Wednesday to look into allegations of grave violations in the weeks of deadly violence since the country's disputed presidential election.
Running out of space in its crowded capital, this republic of 1,200 islands thought it had a can't-miss solution: build another island.
Internet access in India improved Friday as international service providers shifted their Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean to bypass two undersea cables damaged earlier this week.
At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.
For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of the Maldives was a crash course in cop-like heroics.
To get a sense of what kind of legacy Benazir Bhutto, the Muslim world's first female leader, left behind for the women of Pakistan, look no further than those who were contending for the top spot in the political party she led.
In his two turns as prime minister in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif tried to endear himself to Pakistan's people with populist policies and did little to please the United States and other foreign allies. He might yet get the chance to repeat that role.
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