AS Pakistan contends with frequent acts of terrorism — many traced to the banned TTP based in Afghanistan — it ...

The criminal code is reportedly called De Mahakumu Jazaai Osulnama and was distributed across courts in Afghanistan.

The Taliban's new penal code in Afghanistan has added to the already existing restrictions on women. This time it has gotten worse; it legalises domestic violence, as long as there are no visible ...

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned a senior Afghan diplomat and lodged a strong protest over a deadly suicide attack ...

The Taliban’s newly issued 90-page penal code has sparked serious concern among human rights organisations. Signed by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the law permits limited physical punishment ...

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

Iran has little interest in sponsoring a terrorist group that does not act in its interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Pakistan's Punjab province was set to repatriate 20 Afghan citizens to their homeland on Thursday as it continued its drive against undocumented Afghan nationals, a Punjab Home Department spokesperson ...

Afghanistan is facing a surging child malnutrition crisis as aid cuts leave most families without food or treatment.

Al Qaeda remains resilient — and is still under the decades-long protection of the Taliban — as the United Nations warns ...

Barbers in Afghanistan risk detention for trimming men's beards too short, they told AFP, as the Taliban authorities enforce their strict interpretation of Islamic law with increasing zeal.

Afghanistan’s new laws, signed by the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, give animals ‘more rights’ than women as they legalise domestic violence.