Thousands have fled to escape fighting in two ethnic Hazara-majority districts in Afghanistan. Some described horrific fighting.
Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, is free but under police protection after the Pakistani Supreme Court overturned her conviction. Hard-line Islamist groups continue to call for her execution.
Thousands of people attended the funeral of Maulana Sami ul-Haq, a prominent Pakistani cleric known as the "father of the Afghan Taliban," in Pakistan's northwestern city of Noshera on November 3.
Hard-line Pakistani Islamists held protests across the country for a third day on November 2 in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations.
With more than 50,000 troops from 31 countries, NATO is holding its biggest war games since the end of the Cold War.
A suicide bombing at Afghanistan's largest prison killed six people and injured others on October 31.
Shi'ite mourners took part in the festival of Arbaeen, also known as Ziara or Chehlom, in Rawalpindi on October 30. Shi'ite Muslims are estimated to make up between 5 and 20 percent of Pakistan's population.
Afghans went to polling stations in the country's southern province of Kandahar on October 27 to vote in parliamentary elections. Voting in the province was delayed by one week after an attack that killed two senior Afghan officials.
Dozens of women in northern Pakistan have learned carpentry skills as part of a training program to make them financially independent. They say they've been criticized for doing "a man's job," but they wouldn't dream of giving up the work they love.
Afghans unable to vote in Saturday's (October 20) parliamentary elections after hundreds of polling stations failed to open were given another chance to cast their ballot on Sunday after voting times were extended despite security threats and warnings of fraud. (Reuters)
Afghan voters went to the polling stations across the country on October 20 to vote in parliamentary elections, which are seen as a key test of the government's ability to provide security across the country.
Afghans go to the polls on October 20 for the country's first parliamentary elections in eight years. The run-up to the vote has been plagued by Taliban attacks and concerns about vote-rigging, while election staff scramble to get new biometric ID systems for polling stations ready in time.
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