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A deadly attack in northwestern Pakistan has further inflamed tensions between Islamabad and the Afghan Taliban.  

The Pakistani Taliban threatened to begin attacking Chinese Belt and Road development projects unless the government pays them a 5 per cent tax on the construction.

Rescue efforts continued October 8 in western Afghanistan a day after a series of powerful earthquakes left a wave of destruction and killed more than 2,000 people in what is being described as the worst such natural disaster in years in the quake-prone mountainous country.

Rescue efforts continued October 8 in western Afghanistan a day after a series of powerful earthquakes left a wave of destruction and killed up to two thousand in what is being described as the worst such natural disaster in years in the quake-prone mountainous country.

Officials in Afghanistan’s Herat region said at least 14 people have been killed and dozens injured by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the region on October 7.

Pakistan has issued an order requiring all people living illegally in the country to leave by November 1.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called on the Taliban on September 29 to cease “arbitrary arrests and detentions” as it highlighted the recent apprehension of two women’s rights activists in Kabul.

Suicide bombers attacked mosques in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Nine people were flogged in an Afghan Taliban-ruled court on September 17.

A raid by the Pakistani Taliban into the remote northwestern district of Chitral surprised many. Experts see the incursion as a Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) effort to control territory to further boost its expanding insurgency in Pakistan.