If opposition leader Imran Khan does become prime minister of Pakistan, he will have completed the dramatic transition from international cricket star to the leader of a nuclear-armed country.
Supporters of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan celebrated on the streets of Lahore after his party was reported to be ahead in the general election late on July 25.
There were scenes in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, after a bombing outside a polling station. The blast killed dozens of people shortly after voting in parliamentary elections began on July 25.
Voters in Pakistan will go to the polls on July 25 to elect members of parliament and a new prime minister, after the ouster last year of Nawaz Sharif on corruption allegations.
Ambulances and security vehicles rushed to the scene of a deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport on July 22 shortly after Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum left the area following his arrival home from more than a year in self-imposed exile in Turkey. (Reuters)
A Pakistani candidate Ikramullah Gandapur from the party of prime ministerial hopeful and former cricket star Imran Khan was killed on June 22 in a suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan that wounded four others, a police official said, just days ahead of June 25 general elections. (Radio Mashaal)
A deadly bomb blast hit a politician's convoy as it headed to an election rally in the northwestern city of Bannu on July 13. The politician, Akram Khan Durrani, said afterwards that the authorities had warned him about potential security threats.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said London would double its forces in Afghanistan in response to a request from NATO, as she arrived at the alliance's summit in Brussels on July 11.
A group of activists in Afghanistan have staged a sit-in outside the Russian embassy in Kabul. It's part of their campaign to get world powers to find peaceful ways to end decades of bloody conflict in the country.
Iranians have posted a series of videos showing themselves dancing in solidarity with a social media star who was reportedly arrested for breaking social norms in Iran.
Once an obscure township on Kazakhstan’s wolf-plagued plains, Astana has outgrown its teen years and is now firmly established as the country’s capital city.
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