Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s firing of the second deputy to the chief executive drives a sharp wedge between coalition partners in Afghanistan’s national unity government months ahead of the presidential election.
Global rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the Pakistani authorities to disclose the whereabouts of a Pakistani human rights campaigner documenting grave rights abuses in northwestern Pakistan’s Pashtun belt, where the military fought a long war against Islamist militants.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has registered as a candidate for Afghanistan's presidential election later this year, setting up a rematch with Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
Citing the U.S. government’s partial shutdown, President Donald Trump has forced the cancellation of a trip by his Democrat rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to Afghanistan just as her delegation was preparing to travel.
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but least-populated, most impoverished province, deserves a more equitable share in major Chinese investments.
Current and former Afghan officials and observers of events in the war-torn country are criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's suggestion that the Soviet Union was “right” to invade in 1979.
The Pakistani military has now offered to join hands with the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) to bring development and prosperity to their northwestern homeland where more than 50,000 civilians were killed and millions more displaced by nearly 15 years of militant attacks and military operations.
U.S. President Donald Trump urged other countries, specifically Russia, Pakistan, and India, to become more involved in the fighting in Afghanistan as he argued against continued long-term presence of U.S. troops in the war-torn country.
Afghanistan's election authorities are considering delaying a presidential election scheduled for April 2019, an official said, due to delays in registration and ongoing technical issues.
An anticorruption court in Pakistan has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison on a charge of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced that the former head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) Assadullah Khalid is to be the country's defense minister and Amrullah Saleh, also a former intelligence chief, is to be interior minister.
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