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CITY LIFE Meena, a student in Rohtak, warns young women that moving to a city does not keep people back in the village from scrutinizing their actions. “I tell them, we have to be careful,” she said. Photo: Kuni Takahashi/New York Times

Policing village moral codes as women stream to India’s cities

by Ellen Barry New York Times October 19, 2013

ROHTAK, India — Meena, 20, was a village girl herself, so she can recognize the changes that come when girls from the village arrive in this city as students and take their first gulps of freedom....

Pakistan’s Musharraf charged in Bhutto killing

by Zarar Khan Washington Post August 20, 2013

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India likely to approve program guaranteeing 800 million a right to food, but doubts persist

by Annie Gowen Washington Post August 18, 2013

SHIVPURI, India — It was Grain Festival Day, when the poor in this central Indian district are supposed to be able to buy subsidized wheat, rice and other goods through one of the country’s most important social programs. But there was little che...

In Afghanistan, a second Guantanamo

by Kevin Seiff Washington Post August 4, 2013

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CIA closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service struggling to emerge from the Cold War to a counter­terrorism force with its own prisons, paramilitary teams and armed Predator drones

by Greg Miller Washington Post July 24, 2013

The CIA has begun closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service struggling to emerge from the Cold War to a counter­terrorism force with its own priso...

Senior Pakistani Taliban leader ‘shocked’ by Malala attack

by BBC News July 17, 2013

A Pakistani Taliban leader has sent a letter to schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, 16, expressing shock that she was shot by Taliban gunmen last year....

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