The leader of the Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e Islam, has been killed in a mine blast in neighboring Afghanistan, according to Afghan and Pakistani security sources.
Transparency International says that the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted "widespread corruption" in countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where it says "corrupt and authoritarian" leaders have reduced oversight of government spending and curtailed civil liberties.
The White House has expressed outrage that Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of a British-born man convicted for the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The U.S. envoy who brokered a deal with the Taliban last year has been asked to stay in his position, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on January 27.
A Taliban delegation has held talks with high-ranking Iranian officials in Tehran amid ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the militant group.
Pakistan will begin its COVID-19 inoculation drive next week, authorities say, with frontline health workers to be the first to receive jabs.
Afghan officials say two policemen have been killed and at least five others wounded in separate attacks in different parts of the capital, Kabul.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission says killings of civilians in the country’s conflict rose to nearly 3,000 last year despite the launch of intra-Afghan peace talks in Qatar.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Antony Blinken as the new secretary of state with bipartisan support.
The Biden administration will review U.S. sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials imposed over investigations into U.S forces in Afghanistan, a State Department spokesman said on January 26.
Afghan government negotiators are accusing the Taliban of stalling peace talks in Qatar as frustration builds in Kabul over continued militant attacks.
A prominent Pakistani female activist who had campaigned for the rights of the country’s ethnic Baluch minority has been laid to rest in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan under high security after she died in exile in Canada last month.
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