Bebo Haider says she used to be unable to get a haircut in Karachi -- businesses would refuse to serve her because she was transgender. So Haider decided to start her own beauty salon where transgender people are welcome.
Iranian soccer fans and players paid tribute to a woman who died after challenging Iran's ban on female spectators.
A small Tajik boy who contracted polio and could hardly walk has turned into a man who impresses everyone with his strength as he gets around everywhere on his hands.
Shafiqa Mosawi, 63, is one of thousands of Afghans who have enrolled in adult literacy centers across the country to learn to read and write. According to the Afghan Education Ministry, nearly 60 percent of Afghans over 45 years old are illiterate.
When Afghanistan declared full independence from Britain 100 years ago, some women also gained new freedoms, including access to education. But the regimes that followed have swung between extremes, both repressing and then promoting women's rights.
The Taliban took credit for the September 2 deadly attack in Kabul that killed 16 people and wounded at least 119, just hours after the Afghan-based militant group agreed "in principle" to a deal to end the 18-year conflict, the longest war in which the United States has been embroiled.
Pakistanis poured onto the streets to show their solidarity with the people of the disputed region of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Cricket, soccer, and mountain biking are all popular in Afghanistan, but another sport is getting a grip on local athletes. In Kabul, a growing number of men, and a few women, are playing a new European import: rugby.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called for vengeance against the militants behind an attack on a weekend wedding party in Kabul which killed dozens. The groom says he doesn't understand why his wedding was targeted.
Outraged by the killing of a 4-year-old boy, crowds of angry Pakistani villagers set a local police station in Lakki Marwat district on fire on August 18. Scores of locals protested the alleged police failure to protect residents and solve the crime. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
The radical militant group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attack on a wedding party in Kabul in the evening hours of August 17 that killed at least 63 people and left 182 others injured -- the deadliest score this year in the Afghan capital. (Reuters)
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