The Taliban's chief has finalized a negotiating team that will have sweeping decision-making powers in upcoming intra-Afghan negotiations, the top Taliban negotiator told The Associated Press on August 23.
Pakistan has issued sweeping orders enforcing financial sanctions against Afghanistan’s Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of a U.S.-led peace process in the neighboring country.
Graphic footage of the death of Belarusian protester Alyaksandr Taraykouski appears to contradict claims by officials that he was killed by an improvised explosive device he was trying to throw at riot police.
There have been violent scenes on the streets of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, after protests continued into a third night after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed he had been reelected for a sixth term. The results are widely seen as falsified.
Protests have continued in Belarus for a second night after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed he had been reelected for a sixth term. The results are widely seen as falsified. At least one protester died in Minsk overnight amid clashes between riot police and demonstrators.
There have been angry protests and violent clashes with police on the streets of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka was reelected for a sixth term.
An annual extreme-diving competition took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina's city of Mostar on July 26. The number of competitors and spectators was lower than usual due to a spike in coronavirus infection numbers. The divers jump from the city's iconic, 24-meter-high bridge.
A polio campaign has begun in the Pakistani city of Karachi, with the authorities hoping to vaccinate over 200,000 children.
A 200-year-old Sikh temple that served as a school for Muslim girls for seven decades was returned to the Sikh community in Quetta, enabling them to worship there for the first time in 73 years, officials said on July 23.
Thousands demonstrated in the Far Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk on July 18 to protest the arrest of a local Governor Sergei Furgal. (AP)
It’s been a tough month for religious minorities in Pakistan, and observers warn of even tougher times ahead as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and his conservative Islamic beliefs.
Pakistan’s daily infection rate dropped below 3,000 for the second straight day, though medical experts caution it may be due to less testing.
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