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The battered residents of the Edhi Animal Home, just outside Karachi along Pakistan’s gleaming new Super Highway, are a pitiful sight. Paralysed cats that have been crushed beneath speeding vehicles, sit alongside exhausted donkeys too weak to carry another burden, and dozens of wounded or abandoned dogs. Most face a …

At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple — her only ticket out of poverty — as the government moves to close India’s multi-million dollar surrogacy industry. She has left her own children at an orphanage …

Clad in black sweatpants, red jackets and white helmets, the hundreds of cyclists pedaling the treacherously steep, narrow mountain passes to India from Nepal could be mistaken for a Himalayan version of the Tour de France. The similarity, however, ends there. This journey is longer and tougher, the prize has …

Oracle employees were at work on Monday when protesters entered their nine-storey building in India’s technology hub, Bengaluru, and asked them to leave in support of demonstrations that had erupted across the city over a water dispute. By early afternoon, one of the U.S. software giant’s biggest overseas offices had …

At Murree Brewery, home of Pakistan’s national lager, vintage copper boilers belch odorous fumes as they churn out 10 million litres of beer each year. Hundreds of tons of gin and whisky are stored in climate-conditioned cellars, shielded from the pummelling sun. Whether it’s beer produced by the crateful in …

55 Sikhs were arrested at a Gurdwara in Leamington Spa on Sunday after they had entered the temple armed with knives. The men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass and a large number of bladed weapons were seized, according to local police. The force later confirmed that the majority …

In what has become a distressingly familiar routine, there was fresh outrage in India last month after a young student was gang-raped by five men who had also raped her three years ago. The 21-year-old victim had been pursuing a court against the five men when the assault took place …

As Ali Lokhandwala, a Loughborough University graduate and Systems Engineer for the carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, and I leave a Central London coffee shop, we are approached by a Romanian woman holding a well-used Styrofoam cup, begging for some change. Ali immediately reaches into his pockets and hands the woman some coins. …

The ex-husband of a British Pakistani woman who died in an alleged “honour killing” has admitted to her murder. Bradford-born Samia Shahid, 28, was killed visiting relatives in northern Punjab last month.  Her family claimed she had died of a heart attack but her second husband insisted that she had …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at supporters of “terrorism” in his Independence Day speech on Monday, ratcheting up criticism of Pakistan while avoiding direct mention of month-long protests in Kashmir. Modi also pitched a vision of national unity and progress in his third annual address from the ramparts of …