Pakistan's security forces have said that they have killed eight Islamic militants in separate raids on suspected hideouts in North Waziristan.
Afghanistan's president said he was open to holding new elections as a way to transfer power, but insisted any new government should emerge only through the democratic process.
Pakistan's prime minister won a vote of confidence in parliament amid a boycott by opposition lawmakers.
A roadside bomb targeting a vehicle carrying Pakistani construction workers has killed five laborers and wounded two soldiers.
At least 14 people were killed after an avalanche hit a gold mine in a remote area of northern Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, officials said on March 5.
The U.S. State Department said a group of seven other “extraordinary” women leaders and activists from Afghanistan who were assassinated while serving their communities will also receive an honorary award.
Pakistan has suspended its flagship cricket tournament after seven team personnel tested positive for COVID-19.
A French court has acquitted former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur on corruption charges over an arms deal with Pakistan in the mid-1990s.
At least seven members of Afghanistan's persecuted Hazara ethnic group were murdered in the country's restive east, officials said on March 4, in the latest attack to target the largely Shi'ite minority.
Afghan officials say a female doctor died in a bomb blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad in what appeared to be another targeted killing in the war-torn country.
Dozens of ethnic Baluch rights activists have staged a protest in Pakistan's port city of Karachi to condemn the killing of their ethnic brethren by Iranian border guards last month.
The United States has proposed convening a United Nations-sponsored international conference on Afghanistan, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
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