Gunmen have shot and killed a religious cleric, his teenage son and a student on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, police said, amid a rise in militant attacks.
A global money-laundering watchdog has given Pakistan an extension until June to be removed from a terrorism-financing list.
Rival neighbors Pakistan and India have pledged to stop firing weapons across the border in disputed Kashmir, promising to adhere to a 2003 accord that has been largely ignored, officials from both sides said on February 25.
Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who they suspected was involved in the murder of four women aid workers in the country's northwest, the army said on February 24.
Citizens and security forces have clashed in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province, a day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) opened fire on fuel smugglers, killing as many as 10 of them.
Thousands of activists from the nationalist Awami National Party (ANP) came out on the streets of Mardan, Pishin and other cities across Pakistan February 22 to protest what is known as enforced disappearances. Family members allege that their relatives were abducted by Pakistani security agencies.
Three years after the emergence of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a civil rights movement campaigning for the rights of the Pashtun minority, several leaders confirm to Gandhara they are launching a political party to appeal to a broader secular base across Pakistan.
Suspected militants have ambushed a vehicle carrying four women activists from an NGO in the northwest region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan, killing them and wounding the driver.
At least five members of Pakistan's paramilitary corps have been killed in two separate attacks in the restive province of Balochistan, officials said.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia has held talks with Pakistani military leaders about the possibility of postponing the withdrawal of foreign forces from neighboring Afghanistan.
This week’s Gandhara Briefing gives you the inside stories on the thousands of disappeared in Balochistan and their relatives’ protest in Islamabad, why so many turn to tribal councils over state courts in the Pashtun heartland, and the plight of Afghan women begging on the streets.
The transgender community in Karachi has found its own place of worship after being harassed or turned away from other churches in the Pakistani city. The First Church For Eunuchs -- a term used in Pakistan for transgender people -- was set up by Pastor Ghazala Shafique of the Church of Pakistan.
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