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islamabad —  When he heard that devastating floods hit his village in northern Afghanistan last week, farmer Abdul Ghani rushed home from neighboring Kunduz province where he was visiting relatives. When he got home, he found out that his wife and three children had perished in the deluge. Two ...

Growing up in the U.S., I don’t think I could have imagined a queer and nonbinary actor of Asian descent starring in a show on a major streaming platform. Bilal Baig, who co-created and starred in the HBO series “Sort Of,” defied what many of us thought was possible ...

Family members of dozens of missing Baloch persons in Pakistan have been protesting in bitter cold in an outdoor camp in Islamabad for three weeks. They are demanding the state act to recover their loved ones, who were allegedly abducted by security agencies. Pakistan's caretaker information minister told VOA ...

Source link www.rferl.org Sammi Deen Baloch recalls growing up happily in remote parts of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province.But her world crumbled in 2009 when she was just 10 years old.That’s when her father, Deen Muhammad Baloch -- a doctor working in state health clinics providing care to the region’s ...

Source link www.rferl.org Baluch women marched over 1,000 kilometers from Pakistan's largest province of Balochistan to the capital, Islamabad, protesting alleged extrajudicial killings and disappearances. Pakistani authorities have rejected the allegations. Protest leader Mahrang Baloch spoke to RFE/RL in Islamabad on December 29 about what she called the "genocide" ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThree years ago, Salma Fiaz’s world was thrown into chaos when her teenage boyfriend was arrested by the police and charged with murder.Faisal Fiaz, ...

Canadians across the country joined the millions around the world celebrating Diwali on Sunday.Diwali is a five-day festival of lights — commonly celebrated globally by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists — that occurs in October or November each year based on Panchangam, or the Hindu calendar. This year, ...

The bodies of the five men killed on the Titan submersible will reportedly never be returned to their grieving families.While some body parts are understood to have been recovered from the debris of the doomed vessel, the catastrophic nature of its implosion means the full bodies will never be ...

A week after an overloaded boat carrying hundreds of refugees and migrants sank off the western coast of Greece, details of those feared dead are emerging. Most of those on board – estimates range from 400 to 750 – were Pakistanis. Dozens of Egyptians, Syrians and Palestinians also risked ...

ISTANBULIt has been more than a month since Shan Virk’s cousins Asadullah and Usama left their homes in Pakistan.The two were among the hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on a boat that sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, the latest in an unending series of human ...