Pakistan
Pentagon to transfer $1.5 billion to border wall from Afghan forces, other areas
WASHINGTON Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved the transfer of $1.5 billion to build more than 80 miles (130 km)of barriers on the border with Mexico, U.S. officials said on Friday, including taking about $600 million from an account meant for Afghan security forces.
Poor Pakistani women trafficked as 'brides' to China
KARACHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Natasha Khokar was married off to a Chinese man last year, she was promised a life of wealth in a posh home. Instead, she was locked up in a shanty with not even a quilt or a toilet.
Sixth round of Taliban-U.S. peace talks end
KABUL U.S. and Taliban negotiators wrapped up their sixth round of peace talks on Thursday with "some progress" made on a draft agreement for when foreign troops might withdraw from Afghanistan, a Taliban official said.
Christian woman who was on death row has left country, Pakistan says
ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Thursday provided its first official confirmation that Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row falsely charged with blasphemy, had left the country more than six months after being acquitted by the Supreme Court.
Christian woman who was on death row has left Pakistan, lawyer says
ISLAMABAD A Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row falsely charged with blasphemy has left the country, her lawyer and media said on Wednesday, more than six months after she was acquitted by Pakistan's top court. | Video
Militant bomb near Sufi shrine kills 10 in Pakistan's Lahore
LAHORE, Pakistan A bomb targeting Pakistani police outside a major Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore on Wednesday killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 20, officials said. | Video
Pakistan's former PM Sharif returns to jail after medical treatment
LAHORE, Pakistan Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to prison on Wednesday to complete a sentence for corruption after being released on bail for six weeks to receive medical treatment, officials said.
Pakistani Taliban faction claims responsibility for Lahore blast
ISLAMABAD A Pakistani Taliban faction claimed responsibility for a blast that killed at least nine people in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, the militants said in a statement.
Pakistani charity dishes out ostrich as Ramadan treat for poor
ISLAMABAD A Pakistani charity in the teeming coastal metropolis of Karachi is serving up a rare treat for the city's Muslims ahead of their fast for the holy month of Ramadan - ostrich meat. | Video
Pakistan busts prostitution ring that sent young women to China
LAHORE, Pakistan Pakistani authorities have arrested 12 suspected members of prostitution ring taking young Pakistani women to China, part of a growing human trafficking problem often based on fake marriages, officials said on Monday.