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Residents of Khost protest against the terrorist attacks in Kabul and Nangarhar on May 12.

February 25, 1399

Attacks Deal Trump's Long-Shot Afghan Peace Push A Fresh Blow

A view of a traffic after in the northwestern city of Peshawar on May 11 after government eased coronavirus restrictive measures.

February 22, 1399

Markets Teem As Pakistan's Lockdown Eases Despite Infection Surge

Markets across Pakistan are teeming after opening up for the first time in over a month as the country began to lift its lockdown despite a rise in the rate of coronavirus infections.

February 19, 1399

Taliban Militants Kill Afghan Regional Police Chief In Latest Attack

Taliban militants have killed a provincial police chief and two others in a roadside bomb attack in Khost Province in Afghanistan’s southeast, officials said on May 8.

An Afghan boy extracts raw opium from poppy buds as the cultivation season of the banned crop started in Nangarhar in 2018.

February 18, 1399

Coronavirus Pandemic Pushes Up Prices Of Illegal Drugs, U.N. Says

Dead bodies of the Afghans who were allegedly forced by the Iranian border guards to jump into a river.

February 14, 1399

Afghanistan Probes Reports Of Migrant Drownings By Iranian Border Guards

Afghan officials on May 3 launched an operation to locate and retrieve bodies of migrants from a river in western Herat Province after reports that Iranian border guards had thrown Afghans into the river to prevent their entry into Iran.

FILE: A boy arranges bags of trees and plants to be transported for planting at a farm on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan in November 2019.

February 10, 1399

As 'Green Stimulus', Pakistan Sets Virus-Idled To Work Planting Trees

Last year, prizes included gold bars and cars, and in earlier years had given orphaned babies to two childless couples (pictured).

February 10, 1399

Coronavirus Mutes Pakistan's TV Game Shows Over Ramadan

Pakistani teen Tahira Muhammad made headlines in 2017 for her work as a software engineer.

February 09, 1399

Pakistan's Young Women Riding A Digital Wave In Drive For Better Jobs

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last September.

February 04, 1399

Trump And Pakistan's Khan Discuss Coordination Against COVID-19

At least two bodyguards and 12 civilians were wounded in a roadside bomb attack on Governor Halim Fidai in the southeastern province of Khost.

February 03, 1399

Attacks Across Afghanistan Kill Dozens Of Security Force Members, Civilians

Clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants killed dozens nationwide even as the United States tries to broker peace talks between the warring sides.

A worker offers hand sanitiser to those maintaining social distancing to buy groceries at a subsidised shop during the nationwide lockdown.

January 25, 1399

India, Pakistan Plan To Restart Some Economic Activity During Coronavirus Lockdown

India and Pakistan are planning to partially open up some parts of the economy, officials in the two countries said on April 13, as the costs of harsh lockdowns to limit the outbreak of the coronavirus mount across the region.

Several priests and local leaders have voiced opposition to the ban on attending Friday Prayer services, and thousands of Pakistani Muslims have disregarded the government orders.

January 25, 1399

Many Muslims In Pakistan Flout The Coronavirus Ban At Mosques

Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol the fence alone the India-Pakistan border. (file photo)

January 24, 1399

Deadly Shelling Across Pakistan-India Border In Kashmir

Tensions flared again in disputed Kashmir, with shelling across the de facto border between Pakistan and India killing three civilians and wounding 13, according to the two sides.

People stand in designated areas marked on the ground to maintain social distance as they receive free food from volunteers of Chhipa Welfare Association during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in Karachi on March 27.

January 08, 1399

IMF Says Pakistan Requests Emergency Coronavirus Financing

Pakistan has requested an emergency loan disbursement from the International Monetary Fund to help fight the coronavirus under the fund's Rapid Financing Instrument program, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

January 08, 1399

Afghan Gov't Selects Negotiators For Talks With Taliban

A girl living on the roadside looks out from her makeshift home during a lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus in Prayagraj, India, on March 25.

January 07, 1399

India's Coronavirus Cases Tick Up Despite Immense Lockdown

Men wear protective face masks as a preventive measure against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak as they stand by a queue of vehicles at a check post while entering Gilgit in northern Pakistan on March 22.

January 03, 1399

Pakistan Doctor Dies Amid Strike Threat Over Lack Of Protection

A Pakistani doctor who screened suspected coronavirus patients has died after testing positive for the virus, highlighting the danger to physicians who have threatened to strike unless access to protection equipment improves.

FILE: Pakistani soldiers wearing face masks patrol near the closed Pakistan-Iran border in Taftan in late February.

December 28, 1398

Experts Worried Over South Asia Quarantine Centers

When Mrinal Sabharwal and his wife landed in New Delhi with hundreds of other passengers from Barcelona, they expected clean coronavirus quarantine facilities.

December 13, 1398

Afghan Women Fear Taliban Peace Deal Will Erode Freedoms

Afghan women are worried about losing their hard-fought freedoms after the United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban aimed at ending 18 years of conflict.

A screen short of the joint declaration between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States of America for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan.

December 10, 1398

U.S. To withdraw Troops From Afghanistan In 14 Months If Taliban Conditions Met

The United States and NATO would withdraw all troops in Afghanistan within 14 months if the Taliban upheld its commitments, according to a joint statement released by the U.S. and Afghan governments on February 29.