The Hazara minority in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta live in two enclaves surrounded by army checkpoints to protect them from attacks by sectarian militants. A local security source estimates 500 Hazaras have been killed in Quetta in the last five years.
The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “grave concern” about the impact on civilians from an "increase in violence around the country" during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Pakistan's prime minister has condemned a deadly attack by insurgents a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar.
In the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, activists and relatives of victims of forced disappearances are participating in a nearly two-week sit-in protest to demand that authorities release or find scores of missing Shi’a.
The death toll from a Taliban attack on the offices of an international aid group in Kabul has been raised to at least nine people, Afghan officials say.
Taliban militants have attacked the offices of an international aid group in central Kabul, killing at least five people and wounding 24, officials say.
The weeks-long closure of roads leading to and from a rural district in southern Afghanistan has raised fears that its 120,000 residents might soon suffer a food shortage.
At least seven Afghan policemen were killed when suspected Taliban militants stormed checkpoints overnight in western Badghis Province, officials said.
The United Nations has added Masood Azhar, the leader of a Pakistan-based Islamist group, to its list of global terrorists after the organization claimed responsibility for a February suicide attack in Kashmir that killed 40 Indian soldiers.
A yearlong string of targeted assassinations in western Pakistan’s North Waziristan region has prompted mass protests and accusations that the country’s powerful military is failing to prevent the return of the Taliban militants.
A report by the United Nations says U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more civilians than Taliban fighters and other militants for the first time during a three-month period since the UN began keeping records on civilian casualties in 2009.
At least seven people have been killed after gunmen attacked the Communications Ministry in the center of the Afghan capital , officials say.
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