Pakistan

Kashmiri separatist factions had called for a boycott of the vote, leading to 6.5 percent turnout.

Secret military courts were first set up after the Peshawar school massacre in 2014.

Closing the border crossings chokes off key trading routes for landlocked Afghanistan.

Pakistan blocked Facebook in 2010 after a social media competition to draw Mohammad went viral.

Pakistan has opposed some of these projects before, saying they violate a World Bank-mediated treaty on the sharing of the Indus river.

India's human rights delegate Nabanita Chakrabarti blasted Pakistan for allegedly sponsoring terror and mistreating minorities.

Blasphemy is a criminal offense in Pakistan that can carry the death penalty.

From South Africa to the Netherlands to Austria, lawsuits are increasingly a check on political inaction.

The country is the world's largest arms importer—and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would like to change that.

Sources in the transgender community in Saudi Arabia had told Trans Action Pakistan the two Pakistani women were packed in sacks by police and then beaten to death with sticks.

Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and more settlements are deal breakers.

Mumtaz Qadri killed Salman Taseer in 2011 for criticizing Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws.

The bombing was Pakistan's deadliest attack in two years.

Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed blamed American foreign policy and civilian deaths for attacks.

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A Pakistani official said that the fear of U.S. action against Pakistan was a factor in the decision to detain Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed.

The ban will be used to capriciously target individuals for political reasons.

Rights groups say the Obama administration has downplayed the number of civilian casualties.

Zeenat Rafiq was killed as punishment for marrying without her family's consent.

One of world's most famous teenagers talks about her plans for the future.

Can the world's most famous teenage activist live up to her remarkable childhood?

An unexplained shortage of the injectable version of the vaccine slows attempts to kill polio in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Bollywood director tells Newsweek why he hopes to reach a more global audience.

A government official said the plane was on fire and reports suggest there are unlikely to be any survivors.

Women make up just over a fifth of Pakistan's workforce.

The fire broke out at the four-star Regent Plaza Hotel on Monday morning.

The president-elect was full of praise for Sharif and offered his "personal help" for unspecified problems.

Army boss Raheel Sharif is stepping down for Qamar Javed Bajwa in a rare peaceful transition.

Reports of intensified harassment have fed suspicions that Pakistan is pushing out long-term refugees in what could be the the world's largest forced migration.