The Taliban and Afghan government have announced a three-day cease-fire for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday starting on July 31, as the United States presses for the start of delayed intra-Afghan peace talks.
The pandemic has, however, badly hit India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, which have shut or heavily restricted major markets, while fears about catching the virus are keeping customers away ahead of the main festival on August 1.
There were 1,282 civilian deaths in Afghanistan in the first half of the year, the UN Mission in Afghanistan said in a report published on July 27.
An all-female group of robotics students in the Afghan city of Herat has developed a prototype ventilator for COVID-19 patients based on a design by M.I.T.
The Taliban are prepared to hold peace talks with the Afghan government next month straight after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the insurgents said on July 23, provided an ongoing prisoner swap has been completed.
A polio campaign has begun in the Pakistani city of Karachi, with the authorities hoping to vaccinate over 200,000 children.
Dozens of protesters have staged a demonstration in Peshawar to condemn an assassination attempt on Fazal Khan, an ethnic Pashtun rights activist.
A teenage Afghan girl killed two Taliban militants who shot her parents dead in a remote province.
Pakistanis with COVID-19 are risking their lives and navigating a shady black market to get blood plasma transfusions despite scant medical proof about the remedy's effectiveness.
A prominent Pakistani journalist known for his criticism of the military has returned home after being kidnapped in Islamabad.
The spread of the novel coronavirus has lately been showing a downward trend in Pakistan, which is the main reason for a marked drop in daily testing, a top government official said on July 20.
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