Kashmir

Adnan R. Khan: Donald Trump’s winner-take-all world view has decimated the international order that was built to help avoid chaos

The revered author and Booker winner Arundhati Roy tells the story of characters struggling to invent new worlds amid India’s often violent political landscape

On the Pakistan-India border, two nuclear powers are quiety edging closer to war

Pragaash, an all-girl rock band made up of high school students in Indian-run Kashmir, has disbanded after their performance was declared “un-Islamic.” The girls—base guitarist Aneeqa Khalid, singer Noma Nazir and drummer Farah Deeba—had played in a battle-of-the-bands competition, winning fans but triggering threats and condemnation by a Muslim leader. “When girls and young women stray from the rightful path…this kind of non-serious activity can become the first step toward our destruction,” Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad said in a statement.

The new foreign minister is young, female and stylish—cause for celebration and controversy

For those displaced by Pakistan’s fighting, the camps are a cauldron of despair, corruption, and extremist recruiting