Leaders and supporters of a civil rights movement demanding security and rights for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority are questioning a warning by the country’s powerful military to not cross undefined lines.
Afghanistan’s Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) has declared that all votes cast in Kabul Province during the country’s October parliamentary election are invalid.
Two lawmakers who are vocal critics of Pakistan's powerful military and have alleged widespread abuses by the armed forces say they have been barred from leaving the country, in the latest crackdown on dissent in the South Asian nation.
Pakistanis have had mixed reactions to the government's decision to detain Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a radical Islamic cleric and founder of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a religious-turned-political party with extreme views on the country's blasphemy law.
With the April 20 Afghan presidential vote still months away, some candidates have announced their intention to run for the presidency while others are jockeying hard to form the most formidable coalition or come up with a strong ticket.
Afghanistan's election authorities are considering delaying a presidential election scheduled for April 2019, officials said, as they struggle to count votes cast in recent parliamentary elections.
Islamist hard-liners in Pakistan have ended nationwide protests prompted by a Christian woman's acquittal of blasphemy.
Pakistani media reports say that Maulana Sami ul-Haq, a prominent cleric known as the "father of the Taliban" for having taught some of the militant movement's leaders, has been killed in an apparent knife attack.
Hard-line Pakistani Islamists blocked roads in major cities for a third day on November 2 in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations.
Pakistan has freed a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after its Supreme Court acquitted her of blasphemy charges in a landmark decision that ignited angry protests and death threats from a hard-line Islamist party.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy in a landmark case which has attracted global attention and incited deadly violence at home.
Voters went to the polls amid tight security in Kandahar Province on October 27 in parliamentary elections that were delayed in the southern Afghan province by one week after a high-profile Taliban attack.
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