Traffic police in Peshawar have launched a campaign to drive "immoral" rickshaw art from the streets of the Pakistani city. Authorities are covering up paintings on motorized three-wheeled vehicles that, they say, glorify guns and smoking. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Afghanistan’s government estimates that as many as a third of the country’s population -- an estimated 10 million citizens -- have no identity documents.
Early this month, military authorities in South Waziristan ordered more than 1,100 Shabikhel families in leaving their homes once again. The displaced families were residents of the Shaktoi, Smaal, and Bobarh villages in Ladha.
When Indian actress Divya Unny flew into Kerala in 2015, she thought it was for a business meeting with an award-winning director about a role in his upcoming film.
A quarter-century after the demise of the Soviet Union, tens of thousands of Tajiks, whose ancestors fled their homes into Afghanistan nearly 90 years ago, have yet to return to their homeland and be reunited with their families.
A Kabul circus school is helping hundreds of Afghan children overcome trauma caused by years of war and poverty. By teaching skills like juggling and acrobatics, the Mobile Mini Circus For Children builds self-confidence and teaches teamwork in the deeply divided country.
Senior Pakistani police and customs officials say the discovery of a large amount of liquor has led them to conclude that some North Korean diplomats are involved in selling alcohol either to make money for themselves or to provide funds for the cash-starved regime in Pyongyang.
A language dispute has erupted in Afghanistan after the BBC labeled the Facebook page of its local service BBC Dari, a name rejected by Afghan Persian speakers who prefer their language to be known as Farsi.
Using paintbrushes as their weapons and blast walls as their canvass, a young generation of Afghan artists bring messages of peace and hope to the streets of Kabul.
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