Protests were held in Islamabad and other cities across Pakistan amid national outrage over the alleged gang rape of a woman in front of her children.
An Afghan teenager who survived an alleged shooting by Iranian police that set the car in which he was traveling on fire says he is ready to again try fleeing his war-ravaged homeland.
Abdullah Khan's 11-month-old son, Hamza, contracted polio after the family refused to let a visiting health team in Pakistan's Balochistan region give his child vaccination drops.
Welfare organization Four Paws is working to determine whether Kavaan the elephant is safe to make the move to Cambodia from Islamabad’s zoo, which has long been criticized for poor conditions.
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated efforts to eradicate the polio virus in Afghanistan, where authorities have reported a surge of new cases.
For nearly four decades, Afghans have been one of the largest refugee groups globally, but in recent years internal displacement has turned into a top humanitarian issue for the country of 35 million people.
Today, the remote valleys of Panjshir are now among a handful of Afghan rural territories where peace prevails, and the population largely supports the Afghan government.
An Afghan operation to apprehend the fugitive former head of the national soccer federation has reportedly failed after a standoff with armed locals in northeastern Afghanistan.
For nearly half a century, Saira, 70, has helped the region’s women and saved many lives. She is now a local legend.
For relatives, the fate of their disappeared loved ones in Pakistan is a constant agony.
In a show of unity against the practice and in a pioneering move the first of its kind in Afghanistan, civil rights activists, religious clerics, and women in Bamyan’s Yakawlang district agreed to ban forced marriages.
Sardar Gurbachan Singh Ghazniwal, 50, always considered Afghanistan his homeland. He braved all kinds of threats during his country’s four-decade-long war but resisted joining members of his country’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minority community in fleeing Afghanistan.
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