Pakistanis gathered to mourn a transgender person who was shot and killed in the northern city of Peshawar. The person, named Alisha, was shot eight times by unidentified gunmen on May 21 and died in a Peshawar hospital on May 25. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Russia, Pakistan, and Azerbaijan were among a group of countries that blocked giving United Nations accreditation to the media freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists.
RFE/RL has obtained video footage that purportedly shows a group of Taliban commanders pledging loyalty to the newly named Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.
Pakistan's military says the country's army chief has met with U.S. Ambassador David Hale to express Islamabad's serious concerns over a drone strike on Pakistani soil that killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur.
Pakistani officials say gunmen have opened fire on a vehicle carrying members of the Frontier Constabulary paramilitary force in the country’s northwest, killing three of them.
The Afghan Taliban has confirmed that leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week and appointed as his successor a scholar known for his radical views.
Indian police said on May 24 that they had killed a leader of the Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad in Indian-controlled Kashmir in a gunbattle.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Kahn has complained about a U.S. drone strike targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur -- saying that the attack on the Taliban leader while he was in Pakistan was not legal.
Reports from Pakistan say a military tribunal has sentenced to death five naval officers for their involvement in an attack on a Karachi dockyard in September 2014 that left one officer and three attackers dead.
The Pentagon has said U.S. forces killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur in a drone strike on May 21 because he posed "specific, imminent threats" to U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Iran has denied reports claiming that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur had traveled to Iran before being killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan.
Video given to RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal shows a car, allegedly used by slain Taliban leader Mullah Akthar Mansur, in flames. Mansur was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's Balochistan Province on May 21. The video also shows a passport allegedly used by Mansur, under a false name.
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