Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur in a U.S. drone strike has damaged the prospects of a negotiated peace settlement with the militant group.
Several journalists have been severely beaten and harassed while reporting on unrest in Islamabad.
Police officers in Pakistan's beleaguered northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province say their government-supplied bulletproof vests are substandard.
Prominent women politicians in Pakistan have rejected a proposal from a leading Islamist party for separate national and provincial parliaments for women.
Meet America, a Pashtun grandmother who -- in name at least -- has lived her father's American dream.
India and Pakistan may have tense relations, but a 22-year-old Pakistan woman and two Indian friends have shown they can rise above their differences by ascending Mount Everest together.
