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.
A viral video shows Afghan lawmaker Huma Sultani breaking glass and heaving tables and chairs, reportedly after a shopkeeper took offense to her companions. It wasn't the outspokenly pro-Taliban Sultani's first conspicuous public scrape.
RFE/RL’s photographer was on hand to capture the hoof-thumping action as the mountain venue of Kyrgyzstan’s Nomad Games opened on September 3.
Some 1,500 performers took part in the opening ceremony of the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, on September 2. Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov hosted foreign heads of state at the lavish event.
An estimated 10,000 Pakistanis have protested in Lahore over a Dutch politician's plans to hold a cartoon competition featuring caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, with more mass protests expected in coming days.
Waziristan protestors say that while authorities have accepted to investigate whether security shot dead a protestor and injured several more in the northwestern North Waziristan tribal district last week, a top military spokesman said such a probe will only “ascertain facts” and the security forces hadn’t killed or injured anyone in the restive region.
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