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Security officials and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan

Suicide bomber kills 34, wounds 150 at mosque in NW Pakistan

Violence

Most casualties from the suicide bombing were police officers, in a building located in a high-security zone with other government buildings.

A health worker administers the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to his colleague while the prime minister's adviser on health issues Faisal Sultan, second right, and other officials watch during a ceremony to start the vaccination campaign in Islamabad

The biggest challenge for vaccine workers in Pakistan? Staying alive.

Health & Medicine
Pashtun women in Pakistan hold posters of their missing family members

Is Pakistan poised for a Pashtun Spring?

Global Politics
Farzana Jan, a member of the transgender community, applies makeup

Pakistan issues its first transgender passport

Lifestyle
A girl cries before receiving polio vaccine drops at a government children's hospital in Peshawar on March 3, 2015. Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio.

Facing a determined opposition, Pakistani officials tell parents to vaccinate their kids or go to jail

Health
Matee Ullah Khan and members of his ski school at the Malam Jabba ski area in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

Pakistan’s only ski school is back in business, in the ‘Switzerland of Pakistan’

Sports

Pakistan has some of the most famous mountains in the world — the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush, Karakorum. But there isn’t much in the way of skiing, unless you’re a daredevil. But that may be changing.

A competitor crawls beneath barbed wire during the Tough Guy event in Perton, central England February 1, 2015. The annual event to raise cash for charity challenges thousands of international competitors in a cross country run followed by an assault cour

Winning the Super Bowl might have been easier than completing the Tough Guy competition — at least less dirty

Culture

Seeing The News: The annual Tough Guy charity event includes a cross country run and an assault course consisting of water, fire and tunnel obstacles. Also, everyday life for and artists community in Kabul. Plus, we planning a trip to Europa.

An army soldier stands by blood on the floor at the Army Public School, which was attacked by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar on December 17, 2014.

A survivor of Pakistan’s school massacre tells how his teacher saved his life

Conflict

As Pakistan mourns the the victims of Tuesday school massacre, one survivor says he’s alive because of the incredible sacrifice of his teacher. It’s just one of many stories of heroism emerging from the shootings, but Pakistan is still working through “unprecedented” grieft and anger.

A man lights candles to mourn the victims from the Army Public School in Peshawar, which was attack by Taliban gunmen, in Karachi, December 16, 2014.

A Pakistani girl survives a Taliban attack on her school by playing dead

Conflict

Taliban gunmen stormed a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday morning. More than a hundred children died, but one girl made it out alive.

Palestinian school girls attend a class at their school that witnesses said was damaged by Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas.

There’s an international effort to make safe schools in conflict zones

Conflict

Ironically, just as the tragedy was unfolding in Pakistan, some three dozen nations were meeting in Geneva to discuss guidelines for protecting schools and students in conflict zones.