Attack on Afghan reporter tests Taliban’s media freedom pledge

Kabul, Afghanistan – On Wednesday morning, Ziar Khan Yaad left the offices…

Balochistan highway chokeed by protesters

QUETTA: The demise of the personnel in Ziarat last week people came…

Married to ex-Kashmir rebels, Pakistani women now in a limbo

Hundreds of Pakistani women who married former Kashmiri rebels now find themselves…

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The UK first introduced hotel quarantine for all arrivals from “high-risk” destinations…

Taliban in power may find themselves fighting Islamist insurgents

Show caption Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, holds a press conference. Photograph:…

New Zealand stabbings: nation rallies behind Muslim community

New Zealand has responded to its first terror attack by an Islamic…

Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad

It was Nov. 13 , 2001. The sun had just begun to…

Rafia Zakaria: ‘A lot of white female professors told me to quit’

Show caption Rafia Zakaria: ‘I am going to ask questions.’ Photograph: AJ…

Putin hopes the Taliban will be ‘civilised’, open to dialogue

The Russian president is treading carefully with the hardline group, which Moscow…

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