Pakistan's polio eradication campaign has hit serious problems with an alarming spike in reported cases that has raised doubts over the quality of vaccination reporting and prompted officials to review their approach to stopping the crippling disease.
As Pakistan investigates the alleged sex-trafficking of women to China under the guise of marriages, alleged victims are pleading for help from family and supporters back home.
The Hazara, a minority group that is targeted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, often live inside sealed-off communities for their own safety.
Making oil from sesame seeds is still done by camel power in the last remaining kharasi workshops of the northwestern Afghan city of Herat.
Nearly 18 years after the overthrow of the Taliban and tens of billions of dollars in aid, not a single girl has graduated from a high school in most districts of Afghanistan’s largest province.
Pakistani authorities say they have arrested a key suspect in relation to the kidnapping and murder of a 10-year-old girl in Islamabad.
Health officials in Afghanistan say polio cases are on the rise amid conspiracy theories about international vaccination programs.
Pakistan plans to establish more than 1,000 courts tasked with addressing violence against women, the country’s top judge says.
The tallest tower in the famed 13th-century citadel in Ghazni has collapsed, with locals blaming neglect and government corruption.
An Iranian store owner has received a suspended jail sentence after he displayed a discriminatory sign barring Afghans from his shop.
Rising temperatures have already melted nearly half of the major glaciers in Badakhshan's Pamir and Hindu Kush mountain ranges.
Afghanistan's 800-year-old Minaret of Jam is under threat from floods and militants.
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