The Taliban organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan are undergoing unprecedented divisions that pose both new opportunities and challenges for the two neighbors battling insurgencies.
Tribespeople have called for an end to military offensive following recent government airstrikes that allegedly killed scores of civilians in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
As NATO winds down its military mission in Afghanistan, many of its Afghan interpreters want to leave the country. But they have had little success receiving immigration visas to settle in any of the 28 NATO member states
Afghanistan's top soldier said conflicting maps of the country’s long and porous eastern border with Pakistan are adding to cross-border tensions between the two countries.
An official in a remote district in northeastern Afghanistan has confirmed that the region has fallen under Taliban control.
Intimidation by extremist groups and intelligence agents force Pakistani journalists to self-censor.
Thousands of members of Pakistan's tiny Hindu minority are fleeing to neighboring India to escape increasing persecution in their Muslim-majority country.
Burnt out homes, destroyed fields, and shattered livelihoods await Pashtun tribespeople from the Tirah Valley who are returning home from Peshawar after intense fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban last year forced them to flee.
The scantly reported fighting between Afghan and Pakistani militants in a remote district of eastern Afghanistan has forced thousands to flee their homes.
Amnesty International has criticized Pakistan for failing to curb widespread torture as the country deals with complex insurgencies and extensive political violence.
Lawyers and judges across Pakistan are avoiding blasphemy cases in the wake of high- profile murders targeting those who have sought to defend people accused of insulting Islam.
Despite years of protests in Afghanistan and relentless lobbying by Kabul, the execution of Afghan prisoners, mostly on drug smuggling charges, is on the rise in Iran.
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