Amnesty International has warned that human rights and the laws and institutions meant to protect them are under threat around the world from an "insidious and creeping trend" among governments that are deliberately attacking or neglecting them.
A four-nation group says direct peace talks between the Taliban and negotiators from Kabul are expected to begin in Islamabad by the first week of March.
The Pentagon is preparing to submit a long-awaited report to Congress about closing the U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A Pakistani official says police have killed at least 12 militants involved in target killings and attacks on officers in the southern city of Karachi.
Artists in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar gathered to demand more support from the provincial government. They said that authorities from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province had excluded "deserving artists" from their financial assistance program. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Pakistan’s military says the country’s security forces killed five militants in a northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
A purported spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban militant group has released a video of two tribal leaders who had been kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan last week.
Pakistani officials say at least nine security forces personnel have been killed in two separate attacks in the northwestern Mohmand district.
Pakistan's southern province of Sindh has become the first region in the largely Muslim country to give Hindus the right to register their marriages officially.
Students and staff returned to Pakistan's Bacha Khan University amid very tight security, less than a month after a militant attack that killed 22 people. Those entering the campus near Peshawar had to cross through a column of armed guards and metal detectors, as the university reopened.
Bacha Khan University in northwestern Pakistan has reopened following a bloody terrorist attack on January 20 that left 21 students and teachers dead.
Afghanistan has called on Pakistan to find and free a former Afghan provincial governor kidnapped in Islamabad.
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