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A thread from the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram. In late Nov, @Chchavarte & I spent some days with a nine-member refugee family. This is the story of Mah Tial who fled the town of Thantlang. "I don't think about going back to Myanmar soon," she said. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

The United Nations has paid nearly $8 million in salaries to some 23,500 health workers across Afghanistan over the past month, bypassing the Taliban-run health ministry in a test case to inject much needed liquidity into a dire Afghan economy reut.rs/3C1ttjb

Mawlavi Ezzatullah's killing last month was one of a steady stream of assassinations and bombings that have undermined Taliban claims that they have brought greater security to Afghanistan after 40 years of war reut.rs/3F1AYZ5

Islamic State violence dents Taliban claims of safer Afghanistan reut.rs/3kjY6Kw

Dolphin that strayed is moved to sanctuary in Pakistan reut.rs/3EVnVZe

The Taliban appointed 44 of its members to key roles including provincial governors and police chiefs reut.rs/3oaHnKM

Afghanistan players are not fretting over what the future may hold for the team and are instead pre-occupied with the task of making the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup, spinner Rashid Khan said #T20WorldCup reut.rs/3EqeroD

A banned Islamist group prepared to march on Pakistan's capital Islamabad despite last minute negotiations with the government that the country's interior minister said were deadlocked reut.rs/31bYAfc

Four Pakistani police were killed and hundreds wounded when armed activists from a banned Islamist group clashed with security forces at an anti-blasphemy demonstration near the eastern city of Lahore, officials said reut.rs/3bjCauk

Pakistan says it is ready to consider most of Islamist group's demands reut.rs/3mjO79I

When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she burned every document in her home and went into hiding. Then she fled the country reut.rs/3nuqDOe

Pakistan beat India in a World Cup match for the first time ever with a 10-wicket win in a Super 12 match at the #T20WorldCup2021 reut.rs/3pC0IqD

The Red Cross urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis reut.rs/3poLRzQ

Exclusive: U.S. hopes to soon relocate Afghan pilots who fled to Tajikistan, official says reut.rs/2ZnZ4yf

Three Pakistani police killed in clashes with banned Islamists reut.rs/3b0qIU6

For Afghan Hazaras, where to pray can be life and death choice reut.rs/3C4urMn

A group of Afghan women urged the United Nations to block the Taliban from gaining a seat at the world body, calling for better representation for their country during a visit to the organization's New York headquarters reut.rs/3E41yk6

A former Taliban commander previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist is expected to plead not guilty on Friday to murdering three U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008 reut.rs/3aM6LjD

World soccer's governing body FIFA said it had worked with the Qatari government to evacuate almost 100 football players and their families from Afghanistan reut.rs/2YKUGZr