Karima Moqimi was a final-year medical student in the 1990s during the Taliban’s first period of rule in Afghanistan. She was pregnant with her first child when she went to her university to take her ...

Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said, as part of a renewed ...

Pakistan wants to expel more than 3 million Afghans this year as part of a crackdown on foreigners it says are in the country illegally.

Patients with obesity often report being shamed and stigmatized in medical settings. How can physicians address weight ...

Families nestled among furniture, clothes and other items. A woman in a burqa, the covering commonly seen in Afghanistan, clambered down. Ajab Gul said the actions of Pakistani officials had ...

The Sufi Islamic Board has denounced the attack on a burqa-clad woman outside a mosque in Davengere, Karnataka, by radical Islamists. The 38-year-old woman was beaten with sticks and pipes by a mob ...

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday ... depicted the 1999 execution of a woman wearing an all-covering burqa in a Kabul stadium. She had been accused of killing her husband.

Yet last year, she slipped the burqa over her head, knowing she needed to wear it for a few weeks. She was going to Afghanistan, the country of her birth, where the gown is mandatory. She was going to ...

"Life for women here in rebel-held northern Afghanistan is not without its constraints," reported Rohde. Women wear the head-to-toe burqa, but they may shop in the market and talk to male shopkeepers ...

Pakistan's top diplomat Ishaq Dar flew to Kabul for a day-long visit on Saturday where he held discussions with Afghan ...