Last week, the UN Security Council (UNSC) condemned the attack on a religious school in Afghanistan that resulted in the killing of at least 20 students and wounding dozens of others.
According to the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS), the domestic turmoil in Pakistan has shown no sign of ending and has diverted the government's already-wavering focus on militancy.
The Khaama Press quoted the regional wing of the Islamic State (ISIS) as claiming credit for the attack on "the apostate Pakistani ambassador and his guards".
Quoting officials in the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan, the Tolo News reported that more than 9,60,000 pneumonia cases have been reported across the country over the past 11 months, with the majority of patients being children.
The UN agency for the coordination of humanitarian affairs stated that Afghanistan continues to be one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with 28.3 million people expected to require aid in the upcoming year, TOLOnews reported.
Iran is using former Afghan soldiers for their military force and they are also being sent to fight in Syria alongside Ukraine, said Taliban's acting minister for refugees and repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani on Friday, TOLOnews reported.
Pakistan faces multiple security and human rights challenges, including increasing violence by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, the Early Warning Project said in its 28-page report.
While announcing the name of countries that are designated under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a statement, said, "Finally, I am designating al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS-Greater Sahara, ISIS-West
TTP is an umbrella organisation of several radical Sunni militant groups that seek to establish Sharia law in Pakistan. It has sanctuaries on either side of the Durand Line that divides Pakistan and Afghanistan; it has been a known ally of the Taliban regime, which was viewed till recently a