
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Christian woman acquitted after eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy was released but her whereabouts in Islamabad on Thursday remained a closely guarded secret in the wake of demands by radical Islamists that she be publicly executed.…READ MORE

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who still wields considerable influence in today’s Afghanistan despite being out of office for four years, said Thursday he welcomes the entry of five Taliban leaders who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2014 into peace negotiations.…READ MORE

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans worry more, laugh less and are more pessimistic than any nation surveyed by Gallup since 2006, when the group began polling people about their general state of well-being.…READ MORE