Pakistani authorities have rearrested a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist who is facing sedition charges almost a week after he was released on bail.
An alliance of the nine opposition parties has announced a fresh series of demonstrations across the country as they pressed ahead their campaign to force Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down.
Pakistani security forces acting on intelligence raided a former insurgent stronghold in the country’s northwest and killed two Taliban militants, including one suspected of involvement in an October attack that killed six soldiers, the military said in a statement on January 18.
Former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur goes on trial on January 19 on charges that he used kickbacks from arms deals in the 1990s to fund a presidential bid, a case known as the "Karachi affair."
Pakistani security forces have detained and forcibly expelled a prominent ethnic Pashtun rights activist, Sanna Ejaz, from the restive province of Balochistan.
Afghan officials say gunmen killed two female Supreme Court judges in the capital Kabul, the latest in a string of targeted killings that have swept the country.
A group of Taliban militants has killed 12 members of the local security forces in the country’s western Herat Province, in what provincial police on January 16 described as an insider attack.
The U.S. military has reduced troop levels in Afghanistan to 2,500, bringing force levels down to their lowest number in nearly two decades, the Pentagon said on January 15.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging Pakistan's government to “disown” a "hate and defamation campaign" against two British media outlets and to prosecute those who have threatened their journalists.
Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh says license plates containing the number "39" will be retired because, the figure, associated with pimping and prostitution, has become a source of bribery for traffic officials.
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed on January 14 in an exchange of fire with militants in the country's North Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border, the military said in a statement.
Regional authorities in northwestern Pakistan say they have sacked or suspended dozens of police officials for failing to protect a century-old Hindu shrine from a mob attack last month.
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