The main border crossing along the disputed Afghan-Pakistani border has reopened after several days of deadly clashes between security forces.
Rights campaigners and lawmakers in Pakistan have called for dissolving an organization tasked with providing Islamic theological advice to lawmakers after it stirred controversy with recommendations for mistreating women.
Recent incidents in which women accused of violating their family’s honor have been burned to death highlights the endemic violence against women and Pakistan’s failure to deal with it.
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.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban appear to be having difficulty appointing a new leader after a U.S. drone strike killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansur.
Almost every referendum in Central Asia since the breakup of the Soviet Union has been about the executive branch of power and they are usually about giving the executive branch more power. Tajikistan's May 22 poll is no exception.
Faced with growing public discontent, Kazakhstan's government has shifted into high gear to head off antigovernment protests planned for May 21. Since May 16, authorities have been moving to detain people who could inspire or facilitate the planned nationwide demonstrations.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has defended his financial record and asked parliament to form a commission to investigate allegations stemming from the Panama Papers leak.
Tens of thousands of minority Shi’ite Hazara are marching in the Afghan capital to protest the path of a multimillion dollar power line project.
Hazara minority leaders say a decision to reroute an electricity power line away from their home province could mean an ‘end to cooperation’ in the power-sharing government.
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.
Pakistan has accused U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of being "ignorant" for demanding the release of a doctor who was jailed for helping the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden in 2011.
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