Pakistanis are commemorating the 21st anniversary of a bloodless military coup that toppled an elected government and which is blamed for plunging the country into a political and security crisis from which its 220 million people are still reeling.
U.S. forces have come to the aid of the Afghan Army in southern Helmand Province, striking at Taliban fighters who had attacked government security forces in the area in recent days and warning the militants to "immediately stop" their offensive in the area.
Anti-India clashes erupted in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on October 12 following the killing of two suspected rebels in a gunfight with government forces.
The Taliban has launched a major attack on the outskirts of the capital of southern Helmand Province, officials said on October 12.
Hard-line Muslim clerics in a conservative northwestern Pakistani village have announced a boycott of music and dance at weddings.
A senior Afghan politician said on October 8 that Afghanistan needs time to analyse the U.S. troop withdrawal announcement but added that premature withdrawal would have negative consequences for the country.
The U.S. negotiator seeking to end Afghanistan's war voiced hope on October 7 that the Kabul government can reach a side deal with Pakistan, whose historic support of the Taliban has long tested relations.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants all U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan by Christmas, which would be sooner than he previously proposed and a speedier withdrawal than his national security adviser outlined in a speech earlier on October 7.
A British-born Pakistani man who has been on death row over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl will remain in jail for another three months despite his acquittal by a lower court earlier this year, according to a government order on October 7.
Though not involved in the current war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, Kabul supports Baku. For Afghans, the current war has revived memories of their participation in the last major war in that territory nearly 30 years ago.
The envoy for Pakistan read out a statement signed by 55 countries, including China, denouncing any use of the situation in Hong Kong as an excuse for interference in China's internal affairs.
The Afghan diaspora in the United States, exiled from their nation because of war and persecution, find themselves witnessing their home country grappling with the idea of concluding nearly four decades of war in a meaningful manner.
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