A group of technology professionals originally from Pakistan, now working for major technology companies in the United States, have created a mentoring and professional network to help other women.
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, John Bass, has welcomed the release of three Taliban prisoners by the Afghan government and called on the Taliban to release Western hostages in return.
Afghanistan has a drug problem from the abundant poppies that get made into opium. A group of Afghan women has found a way out of their addiction through a different crop.
Hundreds of migrants stranded in a camp in the Bosnian forest are at risk as the Balkan winter approaches, aid workers say.
The protest was led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, who brought thousands of his Islamist supporters on a five-day journey to the capital from Karachi. The opposition protesters blame the prime minister for inflation and rising living costs.
Babrak Karmal, a former ambassador to Czechoslovakia, had been installed as Afghan president with Soviet support -- but only after spending nearly a year in hiding in the central European country, fearing for his life amid factional fighting back home.
At least 73 people were killed when a fire, apparently caused by the explosion of a cooking gas canister, swept through a passenger train in Pakistan. Three of the train's carriages were engulfed in flames on October 31 near the town of Rahim Yar Khan in southern Punjab Province.
Conservationists at a zoo in Lahore, Pakistan, are trying to bolster numbers of the critically endangered Oriental white-backed vulture, after a drug used for livestock killed many of the birds.
Thousands of supporters of an ultra-religious political party in Pakistan are marching to Islamabad, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The World Health Organization says Pakistan is on a "failing trajectory" in its efforts to eradicate a deadly disease not seen anymore in most countries -- polio. Parents of Pakistani children who have contracted the virus warn others to get vaccinations, but many don't, due to rumors, religion, bur
Afghan children must have IDs to go to school. And each family must have a permanent residence in order to get their IDs. Many members of the Jogi minority, a formerly nomadic people, have neither, and are unable to vote, own land, or attend school.
As winter looms, the United Nations is urging Bosnia to urgently relocate migrants and refugees from a squalid camp near the city of Bihac. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
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