Pakistan's army says it has conducted a ground and aerial assault against militants in the country's lawless tribal belt, killing at least 34 militants.
Two Pakistani girls, aged eight and six, sold bread to keep their family after a suicide blast killed their father. But now there's hope for a better future. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
A former governor of an Afghan province has been freed in Pakistan two weeks after he was abducted by gunmen.
The first Oscar-winner in Pakistan's history is back in the Hollywood limelight this weekend as Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's unflinching new documentary about honor killings, A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness, competes for an Academy Award.
A senior Afghan official says Pakistan has been tasked with bringing a group of 10 influential Taliban representatives to Islamabad during the first week of March to take part in direct talks with the Afghan government.
The Afghan Taliban’s office in Qatar has told RFE/RL it continues to insist that all foreign troops in the U.S.-led coalition must leave Afghanistan before it will join direct peace talks with the government in Kabul.
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.
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