A global financial watchdog has decided to keep Pakistan on its terror financing watch list, saying the country had not completely implemented a set of guidelines.
Local officials say at least 23 Afghan soldiers were killed late on October 22 when Taliban militants overran their security outpost in the southwestern Nimruz Province.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned alleged efforts by Afghan authorities to "silence" anyone reporting on a "potentially unlawful air strike" that the watchdog claims killed at least a dozen children at a mosque complex in northern Afghanistan.
Dozens of Pakistani journalists were joined by parliamentarians in Islamabad on October 22 to protest against what they call "enforced censorship" and to demand the reopening of television channels suspended from broadcasting by Pakistan's state media regulator.
Afghan officials say 12 children were killed and several others were wounded in an air strike on a mosque in the northern Takhar Province.
The United States is urging countries that have ratified a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons to withdraw their support as the pact nears the 50 ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force, which supporters say could happen this week.
As rising violence threatens to derail Afghan peace talks, the head of NATO said on October 21 that the military alliance will not leave Afghanistan until security conditions allow, even as some U.S. troops might be hoping to be back home in time for Christmas.
Dozens of security-force personnel have been killed in an ambush in the northern Afghan province of Takhar that officials blamed on the Taliban.
Pakistani authorities on October 21 warned they could reimpose strict lockdown measures, as millions of people flouted guidelines despite fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections.
A powerful blast ripped through a multistory building in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on October 21, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others, police and rescuers said.
At least 15 people were killed and 10 injured in a stampede that occurred inside a football stadium in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province, where thousands had gathered on October 20 to secure visas from the Pakistani consulate, officials said on October 21.
More than a dozen top police officials in Pakistan’s province of Sindh have applied for leave following the controversy over the arrest of the son-in-law of exiled ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the provincial capital.
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