A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to 38 years in jail and 148 lashes in Tehran, family has confirmed.
Nasrin Sotoudeh was charged with several national security-related offences, all of which she denies, reported BBC News.
Rights groups...
The Afghanistan Analysts Network released a report predicting that the ban on the cultivation of opium will have “wide-ranging consequences." The report considered the Taliban government’s possible motives for banning opium and the similarities between the recent...
Pakistan Government will certainly seek foreign aid and loans to stabilize its rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves and the balance of payments crisis, financial experts, which have termed the current situation a 'financial crisis', have predicted.
According to ANI citing...
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday arrived in Islamabad to hold talks on various issues with the Pakistani leadership.
Pompeo, who is being accompanied by US military chief General Joseph Dunford, is expected to hold meetings with...
At least three people were killed, and dozens more were injured when Pakistani security forces stormed a Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) gathering in Khyber district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Wednesday.
The Pashtun people had assembled...
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck western Afghanistan near the Iranian border on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of at least 120 people and injuring over 1,000.
The quake's epicenter was located approximately...
Residents of Zahedan protested on Friday against attacks on Baloch populations by Iran and Pakistan.
After the Friday prayers in Zahedan, Baloch residents took to the streets to protest against aerial attacks on Baloch...
The Balochistan National Party Mengal (BNP-Mengal) and the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) held a seminar in the federal capital Islamabad on Friday to mark the World Human Rights Day which is commemorated across the globe...
A Baloch armed group, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) on Monday took responsibility for killing a man in Karachi city -- the group said the man was a "Pakistani agent".
According to the media...
A pro-independence Sindhi armed group, Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) has claimed responsibility for several attacks in different parts of Sindh.
SRA spokesperson Sodho Sindhi said in a statement issued to media that Hasnain Arain,...
