A crowd numbering in the tens of thousands greeted Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on August 12 as he arrived in his hometown of Lahore from Islamabad after a three-day protest drive.
The wife of Pakistan's deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif will run for the parliamentary seat he was forced to vacate after the Supreme Court disqualified him from holding office last month, party officials said.
Rizwana Hameed made history a month ago when she became the first female head of a male police station in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where conservative cultural and religious traditions often discourage women from working outside their homes. VOA's Ayaz Gul reports Peshawar Pakistan.
Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif criticized the country's Supreme Court for disqualifying him from office over undisclosed wealth on the second day of his "caravan of democracy" on August 10.
A Tajik accusation of Iranian training and backing for high-profile assassinations two decades ago highlights souring relations.
Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing a rally in Rawalpindi late on August 9, said the Supreme Court's decision to disqualify him from office last month over undeclared wealth was an "insult to voters."
For generations, women across Afghanistan have suffered in silence as their men engaged in war and violence, often leaving them as widows and orphans.
Tajikistan on August 8 accused Iran of backing high-profile killings in the wake of the Central Asian country's 1990s civil war, including the assassination of former parliament chairman Safarali Kenjaev in 1999.
Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on August 9 began two days of rallies in a move aimed at demonstrating his political influence, after a Supreme Court decision disqualified him from office late last month over undeclared assets.
The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it allegedly massacred as many as 50 mostly Shi'ite civilians in a rare joint assault with Islamic State insurgents, officials said on August 8.
Relations between Kazakhstan and China have been good for more than two decades now and they enjoy excellent economic ties. Recently, however, security concerns have crept into the relationship between the two countries.
Iran's latest arrests of alleged Islamic State extremists has added to the scrutiny of the group's presence in Iran
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