In Afghanistan, a mother dies from preventable pregnancy complications every two hours. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...

Karim Khan said that a crime against humanity was being committed by top officials against “Afghan women and girls, as well ...

Instead, women who suffered rape and other forms of violence could end up being accused of ‘moral crimes’ and adultery and risk being stoned to death as punishment. Afghan women were brutalised in the ...

The money was part of a larger $100 million package for the Middle Eastern country that was meant to support the "basic rights and freedoms" of women and girls who were living under Taliban rule.

In recent months, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has ramped up its terror attacks and threats towards Pakistan's ...

Pakistani separatist militants claimed on Saturday an attack on a highway in a volatile southwestern province that killed 18 ...

An International Criminal Court prosecutor has called for arrest warrants for Afghanistan's Taliban leaders over the persecution of women.

Officials say Pakistani security forces launched an operation targeting militants in a restive northwestern district bordering Afghanistan ... following the surge in violence.

The onslaught that saw the paramilitaries lose their lives was claimed by the Baloch Liberation Army, a group behind rising violence in Balochistan province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.