Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated that Afghan women and girls are deprived of basic freedoms ...

Last week, the Taliban announced it was withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), rejecting the court's ...

A former interpreter for the U.S. military, now an American citizen, was waiting for his sister, her husband and three ...

Pakistani and Afghan security forces clashed on Monday at the recently shuttered main border crossing between the two ...

Pakistan's capital and the neighbouring city of Rawalpindi are witnessing a surge in deportations, arrests and detentions of ...

A UN expert on Thursday expressed concern over the escalating human rights crisis in Afghanistan, asserting that the Taliban is increasingly governing Afghan society through repression and fear. UN ...

Otunbayeva discussed the complex interplay of humanitarian aid, geopolitical challenges, and governance in Afghanistan, ...

Media reports have detailed how the suicide attacker targeted the emir of JUI-S Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, who was also the ...

The meeting is scheduled as the current mandate of UNAMA will end in less than two weeks, on March 17. During this session, it is expected that Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General’s Special ...

By Daniel Johnson in Geneva UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the "abhorrent, dehumanizing ...

WE need to scrap the UN veto on where we send our troops and pump money into the military, according to the Government. But ...

The Taliban have threatened, assaulted and arbitrarily detained women and girls for not abiding by the prescribed dress code.