A spokesman for Afghanistan's public-protection forces has been killed along with two other people after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the capital, Kabul.
Power is gradually returning to major cities across much of Pakistan after the country of 210 million people was plunged into darkness just before midnight on January 9 by a breakdown in the national power grid.
Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan have ended nearly a week of sit-in protests and allowed the burials of 11 ethnic Hazara coal miners killed by militants from the extremist Islamic State (IS) group.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said that his goal is to transition power to an "elected successor," and that he seeks a "positive peace" with the Taliban.
Afghan forces have arrested three people in connection with the December killing of prominent election activist Yusuf Rasheed.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated his call on Shi’ite ethnic Hazara protesters to bury the bodies of miners killed nearly a week ago in an attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, telling them not to "blackmail” the head of government.
A Pakistani court has convicted and sentenced an alleged leader of a banned militant group that was blamed for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks in India.
Hundreds of Pakistani doctors and medical students have protested in Islamabad for a second straight day to urge government recognition of diplomas earned in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Ongoing protests in Pakistan over the recent killing of 11 Shi’ite ethnic Hazara coal miners have disrupted air, railway, and road traffic in the south of the country -- including the economically powerful southern port city of Karachi.
At least 17 Afghan civilians and members of the Afghan security forces were reported killed across Afghanistan as fighting continued to rage -- despite the resumption of intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha aimed at finding an end to decades of war.
Negotiating teams representing the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents held a preparatory meeting on January 6 in the Qatari capital, Doha, with talks on a peacemaking agenda to begin on January 9, both sides said.
Afghanistan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh has announced plans to install security cameras with “advanced” technology across Kabul to better tackle actions by “terrorists and thieves” in the capital.
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