Catcallers in the Tajik capital might want to bite their tongue following the introduction of strict new measures against street harassment.
A U.S. program to promote the role of women in Afghanistan is falling short of its goals, a new report says.
Naqibullah Faiq, the governor of Faryab, told Radio Free Afghanistan that authorities are looking for Mullah Rasul Landai after several videos allegedly showing him inappropriately touching women or having sex with them emerged on Facebook.
A series of deadly militant attacks have struck sport facilities and athletes in Afghanistan, where sports have flourished in recent years.
Afganistan's Shi'ite Hazara minority is widely fearful of efforts to foment a Shi’a-Sunni divide that could plunge the country into sectarian and political rifts not seen since the fratricidal civil war of the 1990s.
The wife of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has died at a clinic in London after battling cancer for more than a year, her family said. She was 68.
VOA's Saleem Khan visited the "street of gold" and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.
Islamabad formally ended the law this year by merging the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. But in one part of former FATA, scores of members of rival clans were recently arrested in an apparent bid to establish government authority by enforcing collective responsibility.
Pakistan's new government canceled the appointment of a renowned Princeton economist to its Economic Advisory Council after a strong backlash against the choice of a member of the Ahmadi religious minority.
From ladies loosing arrows at full gallop to grandmas rocking up to the venue on yaks, here are some of the women wowing the crowds at the third World Nomad Games in the Kyrchyn Gorge, Kyrgyzstan.
Thousands of disabled miners in Shangla, a picturesque but impoverished mountainous district in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, are struggling to survive amid neglect and a lack of assistance.
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