Pakistan has launched a nationwide polio vaccination drive to try to reach 38.7 million children and eradicate the paralyzing and potentially deadly virus in one of the last countries on Earth where it is found.
Thousands of women and children made an emotional plea for the release of their family members during a rally by the Pashtun community in Pakistan.
The red and black Mazari hat is a traditional garment worn mostly in northern Afghanistan's Balkh province. Recently, it has become popular as a symbol of peaceful protest and has earned the nickname "Pashteen hat."
Returning to Pakistan for Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s mother, Thorpekai Yousafzai, was a dream come true.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai expressed joy and shed tears as she paid a short “dream” visit to her hometown in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012.
Lawmakers in a restive northeastern province in Afghanistan say Taliban control has deprived hundreds of thousands of students from going to schools.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012, shedding tears of joy and vowing to keep campaigning for the education of girls.
Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor hopes her rise will be a source of hope for her long-oppressed community.
Manzoor Pashteen is leading a new Pashtun movement in Pakistan, where many are comparing him to a revered leader in the nonviolence movement during the British Raj in the 20th century.
A Pakistani court has acquitted 20 people of charges that they were part of a lynch mob who burned alive a Christian couple that had been falsely accused of blasphemy in 2014.
As images of Jahantab Ahmadi nursing her infant daughter while taking a university entrance exam in Afghanistan go global, the young mother and student looks to improve the lives of women in her home province.
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