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.
Taliban and Afghan peace negotiators have agreed on a code of conduct to safeguard against the risk of any breakdown in talks that began last month in Qatar to bring an end to decades of war, three official sources said on October 6.
A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian man sentenced to death for blasphemy in a rare judgement that was hailed as "daring."
A Pakistani court on October 5 officially charged former President Asif Ali Zardari in two corruption cases, escalating the legal challenges facing the now leading opposition lawmaker and widower of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
A Pakistani Muslim professor shot and killed another professor from the Ahmadi minority in the northwestern city of Peshawar on October 5, a day after the two allegedly had a heated discussion over a religious matter, police said.
A suicide attack targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed at least eight people on October 5, officials said, as the president traveled to Qatar where peace talks with the Taliban have stalled.
Holding the negotiators accountable to the 95 percent of Afghan citizens who are victims and not perpetrators of violence is the optimal route to addressing grievances and minimizing the marginalization that contributes to new dynamics and cycles of violence.
Pakistani police on October 5 filed sedition charges against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his party days before opposition rallies aimed at toppling the government.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived in Qatar for a bilateral meeting with the leaders of the Gulf state but will not hold talks with Taliban representatives even as peace talks are under way in the country's capital city, Doha, according to officials.
Pakistan’s ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on October 1 accused the country's powerful military of political interference, saying in a televised speech from exile in London that the military had rigged the 2018 vote that brought the country's current prime minister to power.
What kind of power-sharing formula could emerge from an Afghan peace settlement? Experts say the answer is likely a local Sunni version of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- a republican system with a thick theocratic layer.
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