The famous “Afghan girl” immortalised on a 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine, who was arrested by Pakistani authorities on charges of possessing forged identity papers, is likely to be released next week, the Afghan envoy in Islamabad said on Friday. Omar Zakhilwal, who has been pursuing the case of 46-year-old Sharbat Gula with Pakistani officials, said a court in ...

Pakistan’s information minister Pervaiz Rashid was sacked on Saturday as the fallout of a report in the Dawn newspaper on a rift between the civil and military leadership over security policies and tackling banned terrorist groups. Sources said Rashid, a senior leader of the ruling PML-N party considered close to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was removed after a government inquiry ...