The Group of 20 nations, representing the world’s biggest economies, agreed on October 14 to extend the suspension of debt payments by an additional six months to support the most vulnerable countries in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Anti-India clashes erupted in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on October 12 following the killing of two suspected rebels in a gunfight with government forces.
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a Muslim school in Pakistan's bustling city of Karachi, police said on October 11.
Afghan peace negotiator Fawzia Koofi says her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize demonstrates global support for the women of Afghanistan amid historic talks between the country's warring sides.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are joining activist Malala Yousafzai in a video chat about the challenges girls face in accessing education amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Nearly half of war-torn Afghanistan’s 18,000 schools lack proper buildings and an estimated 3.7 million school-aged children are still out of school despite massive investment in the country’s education sector, the World Bank says.
A British-born Pakistani man who has been on death row over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl will remain in jail for another three months despite his acquittal by a lower court earlier this year, according to a government order on October 7.
A Pakistani court on October 5 officially charged former President Asif Ali Zardari in two corruption cases, escalating the legal challenges facing the now leading opposition lawmaker and widower of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
A Pakistani Muslim professor shot and killed another professor from the Ahmadi minority in the northwestern city of Peshawar on October 5, a day after the two allegedly had a heated discussion over a religious matter, police said.
Pakistan authorities have closed more than 100 restaurants and six wedding halls in the financial capital of Karachi over violations of social-distancing rules amid a sudden increase in COVID-19 deaths.
Pakistan’s ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on October 1 accused the country's powerful military of political interference, saying in a televised speech from exile in London that the military had rigged the 2018 vote that brought the country's current prime minister to power.
At least three Indian soldiers were killed and five others wounded by Pakistani shelling along the highly militarized frontier dividing Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals, the Indian Army said on October 1.
An international media rights group on September 25 voiced concern over the brief arrest of a Pakistani journalist this week for allegedly carrying weapons while reporting on a court case in the capital.
Pakistan’s minority Hindus rallied late on September 24 in Islamabad, briefly clashing with the police, to protest the deaths of 11 members of a Hindu migrant family who died in India last month under mysterious circumstances.
Pakistan's military said two of its soldiers were killed on September 23 by Indian fire in an “unprovoked cease-fire violation” in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
In a seven-minute-long prerecorded address from the White House on September 22, U.S. President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly that his administration was focused on achieving “peace through strength” in Afghanistan and Middle East. (video via AP)
An international tribunal has granted a stay pending a final decision on a $5.8 billion penalty imposed on Pakistan for denying a mining lease to an Australian company, the adviser to Pakistan's prime minister said on September 18.
Three suspected rebels and a 45-year-old woman were killed on September 17 during a gunbattle between government forces and anti-India rebels in the main city of disputed Kashmir, officials said.
Indian and Pakistani soldiers barraged each other with mortar shells and gunfire along the highly militarized frontier in Kashmir, killing an Indian soldier and wounding two others, an official said on September 16.
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