Despite a plummeting approval rating, allies of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani say their leader is capable of handling multiple political and security challenges and the debate over the Loya Jirga assembly is a bid by opponents to further destabilize the national unity government.
Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after it was linked to offshore wealth holdings in the massive Panama Papers scandal.
One of Pakistan's most conservative politicians, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has become an unlikely torch-bearer for reform in the deeply religiously conservative country.
Narendra Modi engages Saudi Arabia as part of diplomatic offensive against Pakistan by forging ties with some of the Indian arch rival’s closest allies
Afghanistan's national unity government is undergoing trying times as it confronts defections, political opposition, and a major national assembly to decide the future political system for the country this year.
The Afghan government is hoping a negotiated peace settlement with a hard-line militant group can convince other insurgents to join the peace process.
A dispute over the removal of huge portraits of the first vice president in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif might renew the rivalry between two strongmen who attempted cooperation and competition to shape northern Afghanistan.
Turkey and the European Union have agreed to the outlines of a possible deal on returning thousands of migrants to Turkey, while the tentative plan is being criticized by the UN and rights groups.
Rubber boats continue to arrive in Lesbos even as Macedonia tightens its border controls. Migrants and locals alike ponder whether the rugged agricultural island may turn into a holding camp for stranded people. The mayor's office says the island's fate is in the hands of smugglers in Turkey.
A senior Afghan official says Pakistan has been tasked with bringing a group of 10 influential Taliban representatives to Islamabad during the first week of March to take part in direct talks with the Afghan government.
Pakistan's effort to counter a simmering separatist insurgency in southwestern Balochistan Province has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians, but their plight remains invisible as they receive little attention from national authorities and international aid groups.
Amnesty International has warned that human rights and the laws and institutions meant to protect them are under threat around the world from an "insidious and creeping trend" among governments that are deliberately attacking or neglecting them.
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