Activists in a remote northwestern Pakistani district have urged local authorities to swiftly act to end a tribal ban that prohibits women from visiting the local market.
Since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, Afghan women have gradually gained more freedoms, including driving a car. One woman has turned her skill at the wheel into a business and her own declaration of independence.
A prominent Pakistani writer and New York Times columnist has said that purported Pakistani security agents raided the Karachi office of his publisher and confiscated all copies of a novel he wrote about the country's former military dictator, Muhammad Zia ul-Haq.
Afghan authorities have made arrests and are investigating the alleged rape of a minor girl at a madrasah in a conservative northwestern province of Afghanistan.
More than 1.5 million Afghans were killed during the decadelong Soviet occupation of their country, which began with the December 27, 1979, invasion that first killed the country’s communist President Hafizullah Amin.
Across Pakistan, hundreds of families of people accused of committing blasphemy face economic ruin, their reputation tarnished and social isolation even if such accusations are based on trumped-up charges.
A Muslim professor in Pakistan has been sentenced to death after being convicted of blasphemy.
The leader of a prominent rights group in Pakistan has welcomed the United States’ decision this week to sanction a former Pakistani law enforcement official for human rights violations.
The body of 73-year-old Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who lived and worked in eastern Afghanistan for decades before he was gunned down along with five Afghan guards and colleagues last week, has arrived in his native Japan.
Some 7,000 Afghan migrants in Sweden face an uncertain future after authorities handed them formal deportation orders requiring them to return to Afghanistan.
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