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Afghanistan Launches Centre To Protect Women Journalists
Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday launched a centre to protect women journalists in Afghanistan, the second most...
Five Troops, 10 Militants Dead In Pakistan Border Raid
Five Pakistani soldiers and 10 militants were killed in a coordinated overnight raid at several border posts on the...
Pakistan Plans To End Separate Status For ‘tribal Areas’
Pakistan on Thursday announced plans to bring its militancy-wracked tribal areas into the mainstream political fold by...
US Drone Kills Two On Motorbike In Pakistan
A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the...
Taliban Claim Attacks In Afghan Capital, At Least 15 Dead
Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday, as...
A Magnet For Unsolved Mysteries, Malaysians Ask ‘why Us?’
Following the Cold War-style assassination of Kim Jong-Nam with a lethal nerve agent, Malaysians have once again found...
Simultaneous Taliban Attacks Kill At Least 16 In Kabul
Two attacks struck the Afghan capital at almost the same time on Wednesday Almost simultaneous attacks in Kabul have...
Blasts, Gunfire Rock Afghan Capital
Explosions and gunfire echoed through Kabul in two separate Taliban assaults on security buildings Wednesday, officials...
Eleven Afghan Police Killed In Insider Attack
An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban shot dead 11 of his colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of...
Air Strike Kills Key Afghan Taliban Commander
An air strike has killed an Afghan Taliban commander who twice oversaw the capture of a strategic northern city,...
A Tale of Two Afghan Friends
Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release...
Pakistan Says Gas Leak, Not Bomb, Behind Lahore Blast
An explosion that killed seven people and caused panic in the Pakistani city of Lahore was caused by a gas leak and not...
5 Dead, 30 Injured In Bomb Attack In Lahore
At least five people were killed and 30 injured after a blast ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of...
Kabul To Set Penalties For Subculture of Boy Sex Slaves
Afghanistan is finally set to outlaw the sick 'bacha bazi' practice that sees young boys dressed up as women and...
Pakistan Launches Nationwide Anti-Militant Offensive
Pakistan's military on Wednesday launched a nationwide anti-terrorist operation days after a series of bloody extremist...
The Afghan Practice of Child Sex Slavery
Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi" -- the sexual exploitation of boys -- with a slew of...
Kabul To Set Penalties For Subculture of Boy Sex Slaves
Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for "bacha bazi" -- sexual slavery and abuse of boys -- for the first...
Families Flee As Pakistan Cracks Down Along Afghan Border
Hundreds of families were fleeing from both sides of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Monday, officials said, as...
Afghan Villagers Flee Pakistani Cross-Border Firing
Hundreds of Afghan families have been displaced by cross-border rocket and artillery fire by Pakistani troops, an aid...