NATO defense ministers are due to discuss on February 18 whether to withdraw international forces from Afghanistan by the end of April as per an agreement with the Taliban despite a steady increase in the level of violence in the war-wracked country.
The Taliban on February 16 urged the United States to honor a landmark withdrawal deal under which all foreign troops would exit Afghanistan in the coming months, even as violence continues to rage in the war-ravaged nation.
The European Court of Human Rights on February 16 rejected a complaint against German authorities’ decision not to prosecute an officer who ordered a deadly air strike in northern Afghanistan in September 2009.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called on the Taliban on February 15 to reduce violence in Afghanistan and said any withdrawal of allied troops would be based on the situation on the ground.
Hundreds of employees of Pakistan's Water and Power Development Authority have taken to the streets of Islamabad against the planned privatization of the country’s state-owned power distribution companies.
The head of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security, Saimumin Yatimov, has discussed regional issues and bilateral cooperation with his Afghan counterpart in Kabul.
The United Nations said at least 65 journalists and human rights activists have been killed in Afghanistan in the past three years in a series of targeted killings.
A fuel tanker exploded on the Afghan-Iranian border on February 13, causing a massive fire and a chain reaction that destroyed more than 500 trucks carrying natural gas and fuel.
At least five policemen have been killed and 12 wounded in two attacks in Afghanistan, officials said on February 13.
Pakistan's military said on February 12 that a group of militants had attacked a security post in the northwest of the country, killing four troops in the ensuing shootout along with four insurgents.
Dozens of disabled people in northwestern Pakistan rallied at a Pakistani border crossing with Afghanistan for a third straight day on February 11 to demand jobs, free health care, and education for their children.
Pakistan’s top court has commuted the death sentences of two mentally ill prisoners who have spent decades on death row in a landmark judgment hailed by human rights activists.
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