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Opposition politicians in Pakistan are outraged over losing a no-confidence motion against the head of the Senate or upper house of Pakistani Parliament.
In an escalating crackdown, Pakistani police have arrested scores of opposition activists as most major political parties united in marking July 25 as a “black day” to protest what they say were rigged elections on the same day last year.
The White House has said that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan later this month.
Pakistani political discussions are reverberating with talk of hanging 5,000 people to cleanse the country of opposition.
A new study says Afghanistan has replaced Syria as the "least peaceful country in the world.”
Senior Pakistani military and civilian officials have publicly disagreed over how to respond to a BBC investigation that uncovered alleged abuses by the country’s security forces, militants, and collusion between the two in the country’s western Pashtun regions.
A coalition of presidential candidates in this year’s Afghan presidential election has said it will lead protests countrywide for President Ashraf Ghani to step down after what it says is the end of his constitutional term.
The alleged kidnapping, rape, and murder of a 10-year-old girl in the Pakistani capital has prompted protests and online outrage.
Pakistan’s leading rights watchdog says it has documented the “unprecedented level” to which the freedom of expression and press freedom has shrunk in the country.
The global rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to immediately release members of a civil rights movement demanding security and protection for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s firing of the second deputy to the chief executive drives a sharp wedge between coalition partners in Afghanistan’s national unity government months ahead of the presidential election.
Afghanistan has rebuked neighboring Iran over statements by senior officials that acknowledged Tehran’s contacts with the Taliban and emphasized a role for the hard-line Islamist Afghan movement in the country’s future government.
Ongoing fighting between government forces and the Taliban insurgents has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in a restive northern Afghan province.
Journalists in northwestern Pakistan have asked authorities to retract a police report identifying Sailab Mehsud, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal, and local TV correspondent Zafar Wazir as having participated in a protest on December 8.
Leaders and supporters of a civil rights movement demanding security and rights for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority are questioning a warning by the country’s powerful military to not cross undefined lines.
Officials and residents in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand say scores of civilians have been killed in air strikes.
As the United States seeks to wind down the longest war in its history in Afghanistan, talking to the Taliban about an eventual end to fighting has emerged as the preferred course in Washington and elsewhere.
Activists and civic organizations are pushing for Pakistan’s top judge to be put on trial for allegedly transgressing his constitutional authority.
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