Thousands of families remain displaced nearly five years after Pakistan's military offensive against militants in North Waziristan. Officials are defending conditions at the Bakakhel Camp.
The Taliban is attempting to project a softer and more tolerant image as it engages in peace talks with the United States.
The global rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to immediately release members of a civil rights movement demanding security and protection for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority.
This year the generation of Afghans born in 2001, when a U.S.-backed coalition toppled the Taliban, comes of age. As the United States engages in talks with the militants, young Afghans speak of their hopes and concerns for the future.
Afghanistan's Generation Z has grown up in a 17-year window shadowed by warfare and a heavy international presence, but now faces an uncertain future and the possibility of stark change.
The alleged harassment of women and children by the security forces in northwestern Pakistan’s restive Waziristan region has provoked outrage and protests.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has rejected a petition to review its decision to acquit a Christian woman at the center of a years-long dispute over blasphemy charges that included violent protests by Islamists.
Rare color photos from the 1980s bring the the U.S.S.R.'s "hidden war" to light.
Alamzaib Khan Mehsud’s arrest has attracted considerable attention. He has earned a reputation for his dogged efforts to document enforced disappearances and highlight the plight of victims of landmines among Pakistan’s more than 30 million Pashtuns.
A 27-year-old Afghan man has begun a quest to improve children's literacy by getting on his bike and handing out free books to young people across the country. His hope is to encourage them to read and study in a country where war and poverty has deprived many of an education.
Global rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the Pakistani authorities to disclose the whereabouts of a Pakistani human rights campaigner documenting grave rights abuses in northwestern Pakistan’s Pashtun belt, where the military fought a long war against Islamist militants.
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