Taliban and Afghan peace negotiators have agreed on a code of conduct to safeguard against the risk of any breakdown in talks that began last month in Qatar to bring an end to decades of war, three official sources said on October 6.
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.
A suicide attack targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed at least eight people on October 5, officials said, as the president traveled to Qatar where peace talks with the Taliban have stalled.
Holding the negotiators accountable to the 95 percent of Afghan citizens who are victims and not perpetrators of violence is the optimal route to addressing grievances and minimizing the marginalization that contributes to new dynamics and cycles of violence.
Pakistani police on October 5 filed sedition charges against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his party days before opposition rallies aimed at toppling the government.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived in Qatar for a bilateral meeting with the leaders of the Gulf state but will not hold talks with Taliban representatives even as peace talks are under way in the country's capital city, Doha, according to officials.
Nadir Khan, 50, says his son is among the latest victims of increasing crime in a remote Afghan province where locals and officials blame soaring drug addiction for a dramatic rise in robberies and violence.
What kind of power-sharing formula could emerge from an Afghan peace settlement? Experts say the answer is likely a local Sunni version of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- a republican system with a thick theocratic layer.
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 Afghan official says at least nine people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a military checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand.
The Afghan government and Taliban negotiators are nearing a compromise on a key sticking point that has stalled peace talks in Doha, a senior Afghan official said on September 30.
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