- 11 May 2013 09:48 - Mehreen Zahra-Malik, Katharine Houreld,
- Pakistanis have voted in a landmark test of democracy and have been quickly reminded of the militant violence that plagues the country.
- 03 May 2013 13:18 - Ashraf Khan
- A candidate running for Parliament in Pakistan's election next week has been shot dead along with his three-year-old son in Karachi, say police.
- 29 Apr 2013 10:16 - Jibran Ahmad
- A bomb has killed eight people in Pakistan, including the son of an Afghan cleric, and wounded about 45 in the city of Peshawar, officials have said.
- 16 Apr 2013 08:32 - Stan Honda, Tim Witcher, AFP,
- Pakistan's Taliban, which claimed the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, has denied responsibility for the explosions that killed three people in Boston.
- 09 Apr 2013 09:55 - Kathy Gannon
- More than two-thirds of the inmates at the Badam Bagh prison are serving sentences for leaving their husbands or refusing arranged marriages.
- 07 Apr 2013 06:29 - Reuters
- A car bomb blast killed five Americans in Afghanistan, including three US soldiers and a young diplomat on Saturday.
- 23 Mar 2013 09:18 - Reuters
- Pakistan's Taliban have threatened to use suicide bombers and snipers to kill former President Pervez Musharraf when he returns home from exile.
- 06 Mar 2013 18:59 - Sapa-AFP
- President Hamid Karzai has said that the US would hand over a final group of Afghan prisoners, signalling a breakthrough in disputes with Washington.
- 19 Dec 2012 13:37 - Reuters
- Three workers in a United Nations-backed polio eradication campaign have been shot in Pakistan and two of them have been killed.
- 16 Dec 2012 13:20 - Sapa-AFP
- Six people were killed as police and troops battled armed militants in Pakistan's Peshawar, a day after a deadly Taliban raid on the city's airport.
- 12 Oct 2012 00:00 - Jon Boone
- The Taliban's attempt to kill a 14-year-old girl, famous for speaking out against Islamic militants, has triggered a wave of revulsion in Pakistan.
- 10 Oct 2012 15:23 - Saud Mehsud
- Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai who was shot by the Taliban on Tuesday had defied threats for years, believing her good work was her protection.
- 10 Oct 2012 09:27 - SH Khan
- Doctors were to decide whether to fly abroad the 14-year-old activist who is in a critical condition after being shot in the head by the Taliban.
- 14 Sep 2012 00:00 - Matt Waldman
- A genuine dialogue with the mullahs is essential if stability is to gain a foothold in Afghanistan, writes Matt Waldman.
- 13 Jul 2012 08:05 - Julian Borger
- A senior commander of the Taliban has offered a pragmatic view on the futility of the war and the future of Afghanistan. Julian Borger reports.
- 16 Apr 2012 12:07 - Sardar Ahmad
- Afghanistan says its regained control of Kabul, killing all the Taliban militants who launched one of the biggest attacks on the city in a decade.
- 15 Apr 2012 07:08 - Saud Mehsud
- Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from jail in northwest Pakistan after it was attacked by militants armed with guns and grenades.
- 19 Mar 2012 10:49 - Emine Saner
- Sadaf Rahimi has gone against tradition and is the only female member of Afghanistan's national Olympic team. She is a boxer.
- 15 Mar 2012 17:13 - Haji Mujtaba
- A Pakistan army spokesperson says a Swiss couple, who was kidnapped by the Taliban last July, have escaped from their captors and are well.
