Given its information-structural value, the introductory it-pattern has received quite a bit of scholarly attention in English as a Native Language (ENL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, where it has been shown to entail versatile functional and structural possibilities but also to occur in preferred registers of employment. When it comes to English as a Second Language (ESL) varieties, however, research is surprisingly scarce. This also applies to the Englishes spoken in South Asian regions, whose speakers, in fact, constitute the largest number of ESL speakers across the globe. In the present chapter, these six varieties, namely Indian (IndE), Bangladeshi (BgE), Nepali (NpE), Maldivian (MvE), Pakistani (PkE), and Sri Lankan English (SLE), are employed to fill the existing gap in academic discourse concerning the use of the intro-it in outer-circle varieties in general and newspaper language in particular. Our findings reveal similarities, such as the increased likelihood of the structure in longer sentences, but also significant regional differences. Examples include the fact that MvE and SLE exhibit notably higher usages of the construction than the other varieties. Likewise, it has been proven that South Asian varieties show distinct structural and semantic preferences.