Islamabad has granted some representation and citizenship rights and recognized tiny Sikh, Hindu, and Christian minorities as local residents in its restive western tribal areas.
A senior Pakistani official says that the U.S. drone attack that killed the Afghan Taliban’s leader last month in the country damaged "mutual trust" between Islamabad and Washington.
An Afghan man, camped outside the Afghan parliament building, is urging lawmakers to end repressive tribal customs in his southeastern homeland where women are still deprived of basic rights in the name of centuries-old customs.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur in a U.S. drone strike has damaged the prospects of a negotiated peace settlement with the militant group.
A senior Russian official says Moscow is skeptical about the killing of the Afghan Taliban leader in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan because it will complicate efforts to negotiate peace with the Afghan insurgents.
Pakistan is hesitant to take action against the Afghan Taliban on its soil because of concerns the group will redirect its violence against Islamabad.
A new book captures the pain civilians have endured in Pakistan’s Waziristan tribal region, where thousands have been killed and millions displaced in a convoluted conflict that saw the region’s tribal society decimated by radical Islamists and security forces.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Central Asia-South Asia electricity transmission project, known as CASA-1000, is set for next week in Tajikistan, although questions remain about it and a regional gas pipeline.
After cooperating with the United States and its NATO allies in stabilizing Afghanistan for more than a decade, there are signs now that Moscow is opening a new front against Washington in Afghanistan following its actions in Syria and Ukraine.
Zalmay Khalilzad, a key figure in U.S. President George W. Bush’s war against terrorism, says Islamabad’s support of the Afghan Taliban after the demise of their regime in 2001 is the ‘mother of all problems’ confronting Afghanistan today.
The Qatar-based political office of Afghanistan’s Taliban has rejected media reports that a Taliban delegation sent to Pakistan is exploring the possibility of joining peace talks with the Afghan government.
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