In Uruzgan, a remote province in southern Afghanistan, many victims of alleged atrocities by the Australian security forces say Canberra's recent probe does not cover the full extent of what they say are extensive abuses.
Talia Khattak says she was finally allowed to briefly meet with her father, Idris Khattak. The Pakistani human rights campaigner mysteriously disappeared last year but was later charged with spying under a colonial-era law.
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis and Afghans are among millions of foreign workers likely to benefit from the easing of restrictions in Saudi Arabia's "kafala" visa sponsorship system. But 3.7 million domestic workers will be left in what critics have compared to a modern form of slavery.
The goal of homogenization through education is the central premise of the so-called Single National Curriculum put forward by the current government led by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) party.
The challenges of providing education for girls in Afghanistan’s rural regions, some of which are under the control of Taliban militants.
France has warned its citizens living or traveling in several Muslim-majority countries to be extra cautious amid a wave of fury over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
While EU leaders mull a controversial new system for migration, disturbing reports are emerging of migrants being beaten and abused by Croatian police as they seek to enter the European Union via Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Atefa Tayeb says access to schooling for girls and women is not negotiable in the Afghan government's peace talks with the Taliban.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 18 in support of an opposition alliance that has vowed to topple the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of conflict in the western region.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has accused the country’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2018 elections.
Turkish as well as Israeli and cheaper Russian-made drones are being used to powerful effect during Azerbaijan's attacks in and around the country's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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