PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 11 (UPI) — The deadly suicide bomb attack at a Pakistani army center, reportedly by a teenager, has “appalled” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a spokeswoman said.

A Pakistani flood victim who set himself alight outside the prime minister’s home died Monday, police said. Police official Hasan Bukhsh said Mohammad Akram died in a hospital in the eastern city of Multan. He had doused himself with petrol and set...

A bomb exploded in a nightclub in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe overnight, wounding at least five people, security sources said on Monday. The blast followed an attack by suicide car bombers in another part of the Central Asian republic on Friday...

Two suicide bombers have killed at least 39 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore, police say. One of the attack occurred in a market and the other in a busy residential area. The authorities say the bombers targeted military vehicles.

While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition. The World Food Program and UNICEF have launched a project to feed thousands of mothers and children...

Every morning, Sarim Zaidi, 17, puts on his school uniform, straightens his tie and hops into the car his parents provide for him to go to the Imperial International School and College in Islamabad, an upscale private institution. After his driver...

The document calls for a “combination of carrot and stick” to encourage Taliban commanders and foot soldiers to lay down their arms and rejoin Afghan society. Any plan must be Afghan-led it said, but suggested a bottom-up process first...

The head of the United Nations in Afghanistan threatened a complete pullout yesterday after half of his staff were evacuated following last week’s terrorist attack, in which five UN personnel died. In a blunt message to the newly re-elected President...

‘No, Bakra Eid is the month of sacrifice,’ replied Babboo. ‘I am talking of a different kind of sacrifice. In this sacrificial exercise, goats, sheep, cows and camels do not figure.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I...

“I’m doing it for peace,” Zaid said, right before he fired several shots in the air with his rifle. Zaid is among hundreds of villagers in northwest Pakistan who’ve volunteered to join private militias, called lashkars. These...