A violent clash has erupted in northwestern Pakistan between police and residents protesting the authorities' failure to arrest the killers of a local tribal elder.
Pakistani officials say a powerful bomb blast has killed three people and wounded 14 others in the eastern city of Lahore.
Taliban militants have conducted multiple of offensives in Afghanistan's north in recent days, overrunning dozens of districts since May 1, when U.S. and NATO troops began their final withdrawal from the war-wracked country and reportedly capturing the main border crossing with Tajikistan.
The United Nations says it continues to be concerned by the high number of children killed and maimed by all parties in the Afghan conflict -- at least 2,619 last year.
The family of prominent Pakistani opposition politician Usman Khan Kakar says he has been killed in a “well-planned” attack by at least two assailants at his home in the northern province of Balochistan.
Taliban fighters overran a key district in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz on June 21 and surrounded the provincial capital, police said.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sharply criticized the United States and its allies for "failing" in their mission to fight extremism and bring stability to the war-torn country, instead leaving it in "total disgrace and disaster."
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, at the White House on June 25, the White House has announced.
Afghanistan's president has introduced two nominees to head the Defense and Interior ministries at a crucial juncture for the country, with Taliban militants winning ground and foreign forces embarked on a complete withdrawal by September.
U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan has welcomed Turkey's “clear commitment” to take a lead role in securing Kabul's international airport after the planned U.S.-led withdrawal of allied troops from Afghanistan later this year.
A 70-year-old Muslim cleric has been indicted with sexually abusing a student at a religious school after cellphone videos purporting to show the cleric forcing himself on the student went viral on social media.
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