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PESHAWAR, Apr 21 (IPS) - In a remarkable conservation achievement, four rare and elusive snow leopards have been spotted together in the rugged peaks of northern Pakistan, highlighting the success of the ongoing global efforts aimed at protecting this critically endangered species and preserving its fragile habitat.

The Behbud Association teaches women to sew and embroider so that they can lift themselves out of extreme poverty.

"All in all, we have an incomprehensible amount of physical space and furnishings — too much of it inefficiently procured, leased and maintained," OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart told member…

Pakistani authorities have stepped up arrests of Afghan citizens in an effort that the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad described as a push to expel Afghan refugees.

Six months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation, the public is growing impatient with the interim government.

A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls.

India and Afghanistan have taken a significant step in securing their first high-level bilateral engagement. No foreign government, including India, officially recognizes the Taliban regime.

From India's relations with rivals to Sri Lanka's democratic shift, here's what to keep an eye on this year.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said it has exchanged lists of nuclear facilities with India as part of a bilateral pact that bars them from attacking each other's nuclear facilities

Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups remember the war's start amid larger regional conflict.

In our news wrap Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to leave in place two EPA rules aimed at reducing the oil and gas industry's emissions of methane gas and mercury, the UN says the death toll of a gang raid in central Haiti has risen to at least 70 people and police in Pakistan clashed with anti-government demonstrators calling for the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Modi's iron-fisted approach to the disputed region has left it more vulnerable to local and geopolitical threats.

Tehran wants Islamabad to hold up its end of the deal on a much-delayed gas pipeline—but it doesn't seem likely.

Security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with reports of other shootings and destruction in the area.

The global concentrations of one of the main air pollutants known to affect human health has been graphically illustrated for the first time by a team of scientists.

People in Pakistan have reported much slower internet over the past several days with some experts estimating its speed falling to less than half its usual capacity at times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug 19 (IPS) - In May, temperatures soared above 52° Celsius (125.6° Fahrenheit) in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh. To cope, Samina Kanwal, a community health worker with Action Against Hunger, began work at 7:00 am — the earliest time possible given neighborhood security protocols — to travel door-to-door helping vulnerable with the health consequences of extreme heat including…

Pakistan has found 11 cases in more than a year, with the latest infection confirmed on Aug. 13 in a 34-year-old male who arrived from Saudi Arabia.

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday rejected a report that Pakistani agents have been able to enter Germany through a visa scheme for...