Prominent Afghan Islamists are under fire for celebrating a communist anniversary by attending a dance performance at the Chinese Embassy in Kabul.
A group of worshippers from different religions have banded together to protect one center in particular, one where both Hindus and Muslims gather to pray.
Violence and social pressures have not deterred members of the country's nascent orchestra of mostly young girls from using music to "heal wounds" and promote women's rights in the strictly conservative Muslim society.
Conservatives challenge cineastes' submission for the Oscars over its gloomy depiction of life in Iran, saying a more patriotic choice lionizing Iranian efforts in Syria would have been better.
Catcallers in the Tajik capital might want to bite their tongue following the introduction of strict new measures against street harassment.
A U.S. program to promote the role of women in Afghanistan is falling short of its goals, a new report says.
Naqibullah Faiq, the governor of Faryab, told Radio Free Afghanistan that authorities are looking for Mullah Rasul Landai after several videos allegedly showing him inappropriately touching women or having sex with them emerged on Facebook.
A series of deadly militant attacks have struck sport facilities and athletes in Afghanistan, where sports have flourished in recent years.
Afganistan's Shi'ite Hazara minority is widely fearful of efforts to foment a Shi’a-Sunni divide that could plunge the country into sectarian and political rifts not seen since the fratricidal civil war of the 1990s.
The wife of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has died at a clinic in London after battling cancer for more than a year, her family said. She was 68.
VOA's Saleem Khan visited the "street of gold" and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.
Islamabad formally ended the law this year by merging the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But in one part of former FATA, scores of members of rival clans were recently arrested in an apparent bid to establish government authority by enforcing collective responsibility.
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