Traces of bullets and Negar's blood are still visible on the walls and doors of her family home, a daily reminder of the night gunmen came for the expecting mother, wife -- and former Afghan ...
For more than a decade, a hard-line Central Asian militant group wreaked havoc across northwestern Pakistan before being pushed out of the country last June. Nearly a year later, thousands of fighters ...
Pakistanis Remember Military Coup Two Decades On As Opposition Still Struggles Against Its Dominance
Pakistanis are commemorating the 21st anniversary of a bloodless military coup that toppled an elected government and which is blamed for plunging the country into a political and security crisis from ...
In northwestern Pakistan, marriages are usually arranged by parents and families. The lavish weddings are a time of joy and celebration for the families, friends and relatives of the bride and the ...
Police in the Pakistani capital have arrested a top leader of a civil rights movement campaigning against alleged military abuses in the country’s restive northwestern Pashtun tribal regions. Lawmaker ...
Attan historically originated as a war dance among the Pashtun tribes that now straddle Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today Attan is often performed at weddings and other celebrations. Some tribal ...
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Residents and officials in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan say the Taliban is raking in considerable revenues by taxing illegal gold mining in the remote ...
NAD-E ALI, Afghanistan -- Muhammad Lala, a white-bearded Pashtun patriarch, is not happy upon returning to his house after more than a year. Lala, a farmer, left his humble mud home in great haste in ...
Abdul Ghani Khan (1914-1996), a master poet, sculptor and painter, was inspired by the Impressionists but developed his own style. He mostly concentrated on painting the human face because "of the ...
Nearly half a century ago, a bloodless palace coup in Afghanistan ended more than two centuries of Durrani monarchy in Afghanistan. But the power grab of the July 17, 1973, coup that saw Sardar ...
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Central Asia-South Asia electricity transmission project, known as CASA-1000, is scheduled for May 12 in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. The leaders of Afghanistan, ...
Asamuddin Mukhdum, a young Afghan, sees his ancestral homeland every day but cannot visit despite being only separated by a fast-flowing river amid scenic mountains. Standing in the graveyard in ...
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