Report blames ongoing conflict and worsening security situation, combined with 'deeply engrained' poverty and discrimination against girls, for 3.7 million children aged between 7 and 17 years old who are out of school
Nasir-Ul-Mulk took the oath of office Friday pending the July 25 elections
Foreign Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan tells VOA ties with Washington are at 'a low ebb' with both countries not speaking to each other
Official announcement listed details of strikes conducted over a 10-day period starting May 17 and hitting targets mostly around southern Afghan province of Helmand
Government is investigating the incident, which killed family members of the chairman of the Senate and three security personnel
Army orders probe into a book Asad Durrani co-authored with Indian counterpart
The two sides agreed to undertake measures that would assist Pakistan and Afghanistan in reducing violence at the hands of terrorists
Afghan National Security Adviser Haneef Atmar leading team of top security officials, including country’s interior minister and heads of army and intelligence agency.
Afghan officials said the attack in Nad Ali district of Helmand province killed at least two Afghan soldiers and wounded several others
UN says more than 2 million are at risk of becoming severely food insecure
A privately run women empowerment program in Pakistan, known as Pink Rickshaw, is helping improve the lives of poverty-stricken families and impacting social behaviors in an otherwise male-dominated society. Ayaz Gul reports from Islamabad.
Pakistan says it has not received specific complaints and refutes US Secretary of State Pompeo's assertion that US diplomats in Pakistan are 'treated badly'
Overnight attack on a century-old compound happened in Sialkot
Global Witness report says almost 80 percent of extracted talc ends up in US, EU markets
Two-day conference of legal experts to be held under framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which comprises China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan
Local media reports say retired Lt. General Shahid Aziz was killed fighting alongside anti-American forces in Afghanistan or Syria
The project, known as TAPI, plans to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India
Almost weekly military skirmishes along the so-called Line of Control (LoC) in the Himalayan region have almost shattered a 2003 mutual cease-fire truce
US defense attache Colonel Joseph Emanuel Hall ran a red light, killing a motorcyclist in Islamabad on April 7, and left Pakistan Saturday
Military identified the slain man as Salman Badeni, head of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), in Baluchistan
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