The chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, has held talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and other top officials in the Tajik capital as he looks to drum up regional support for peace talks with the Taliban.
A prominent Pakistani activist who had campaigned for the rights of the country’s ethnic Baluch minority has been found dead in Toronto after she went missing in Canada's largest city.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says 21 journalists worldwide were singled out for murder in reprisal for their work in 2020, more than double the previous year’s figure of 10.
Pakistan has secured a $1.7 billion debt relief agreement to help offset the financial headwinds sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said on December 21.
An Afghan journalist was shot dead by unknown assailants in Afghanistan's central province of Ghazni on December 21, raising to four the number of journalists killed in the country within two months.
Pakistani police have arrested another member of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority amid an apparent crackdown on the group.
The family of Pakistani lawmaker and Pashtun rights leader Ali Wazir, who is in custody on a sedition charge, say his life is in danger.
Afghan authorities say a car bombing targeting a member of parliament killed at least nine people in the capital, Kabul.
An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on December 19 handed over a lawmaker and Pashtun-rights leader to be held in custody for 12 days over a sedition charge that has sparked protests all over northwestern Pakistan.
UNICEF has reached an agreement with the Taliban to expand community-based education classes in Taliban-controlled areas to serve more than 100,000 children, including girls.
Thousands of people have rallied in dozens of cities and towns in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere on December 18 to protest against the arrest of a lawmaker and leader of a civil rights movement campaigning for the country's ethnic Pashtun minority.
Afghan officials say at least 15 children were killed and 20 other people wounded when a bomb explosion hit a religious gathering in central Afghanistan.
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