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* ![TOPSHOT-PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25d8d6fd620e4701/698a1c1022fb8522f0e2c714/Pakistan-Afghanistan-Border.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 18, 2021  
### [Afghans in Pakistan Fear for Refugees Fleeing Taliban](https://time.com/6091056/afghanistan-refugees-pakistan/)  
“Even after 40 years, nothing has changed in Afghanistan," says one refugee in Pakistan. "Fear, hung...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![2012 Doha Tribeca Film Festival - Day 1](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba6dc65d1f99e8b0/698a1340e76ad2294b63834d/metoo_pakistan_meesha_shafi_defamation.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 20, 2020  
### [Pakistani Women Said #MeToo. Now, They're Being Sued](https://time.com/5900710/pakistan-me-too-movement-lawsuits/)  
Women in Pakistan came forward with allegations of sexual harassment as the #MeToo movement took hol...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![TOPSHOT-PAKISTAN-RELIGION-COURT](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd6776f8d366d0710/69893e1b929fad2020bf1f78/gettyimages-1055652010.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 2, 2018  
### [Pakistan Paralyzed by Protests Over Blasphemy Acquittal](https://time.com/5442851/pakistan-blasphemy-asia-bibi-protest/)  
Asia Bibi was cleared after eight years on death row, but she still isn't free  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Labourers, who set up the venue, sit under a wall with a billboard displaying photo of Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf \(PTI\), political party, as they listen to him during a campaign rally ahead of general elections in Karachi](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e33e02edb81d72a/69893605e76ad234a763290b/rtx6cdyb.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 24, 2018  
### [Pakistan Goes to the Polls](https://time.com/5346688/pakistan-election-2018-imran-khan-nawaz-sharif/)  
The upcoming election will only be the country’s second democratic transition of power  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![PAKISTAN-ELECTION-TRANSGENDER-SOCIAL](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe4adae308536bd6/698935f04ee2626c88312645/gettyimages-994332966.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 23, 2018  
### [Pakistan's Transgender Candidates Find Political Voice](https://time.com/5345533/pakistan-elections-2018-transgender-candidates/)  
Long left on the margins, transgender citizens are finding their voice  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![Portrait of a girl behind veil.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39c924477cda00dd/6988f3ecdb29877bd525df84/gettyimages-148728457.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 8, 2017  
### [Pakistan to Vote on Child Marriage Bill](https://time.com/5047199/child-marriage-pakistan/)  
Pakistan's parliament will vote on whether to raise the minimum marriage age to 18  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Relatives and emergency workers carry an injured woman to the hospital after at least 70 people were killed in an Easter Sunday bombing at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, March 27, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ae3ddbfdd099053/69888caaab6d7723a56a9027/lahore-pakistan-easter-bombing-5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 28, 2016  
### [Eyewitnesses Recount Deadly Lahore Bombing](https://time.com/4273396/lahore-attack-pakistan-park-bombing-eyewitness/)  
Lahore bombing survivors say "this is against all of humanity”  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Drag queen and gay rights activist Rory O'Neill, known by his stage name as Panti Bliss arrives at the Central Count Centre in Dublin Castle, Dublin on May 23, 2015](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta050a89bab873cb6/698851c18e06015a3c460ac3/ap274771529648.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 27, 2015  
### [Vatican Calls Irish Gay-Marriage Vote 'Defeat for Humanity'](https://time.com/3897462/ireland-gay-marriage-same-sex-vatican-pietro-parolin/)  
The remark is the most critical made by the church so far  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
May 25, 2015  
### [Breastfed Babies Better Protected Against Pollution](https://time.com/3895428/babies-breastfed-pollution-protection/)  
Human milk counters impact of airborne pollutants  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)
* ![A publishing house employee stands at a booth selling discount foreign novels at a book festival in Hanoi on September 30, 2014](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd63e42964f611d83/6988514bf887dc25d3e90989/456370940.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 22, 2015  
### [Vietnam Outlaws 'Filthy,' 'Clichéd' and 'Poisonous' Romantic Novels](https://time.com/3893658/vietnam-outlaws-filthy-poisonous-romantic-novels/)  
Well, that's <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> nixed then  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![Josh Duggar, executive director of FRC Action, speaks at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark.on Aug. 29, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fe4701216b5b06a/6988514c3c1639f93d45805b/josh-duggar-molestation.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 22, 2015  
### [Josh Duggar Resigns From Family Research Council](https://time.com/3893564/josh-duggar-family-research-council-resignation-child-molestation-allegations-19-kids-and-counting/)  
Duggar says he "regrets" the "negative attention"  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)
* ![Activist Gloria Steinem, center right, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, center left, along with other delegation, visit Mangyongdae, the birthplace of North Korea's late leader Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, Wednesday, May 20, 2015](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt618da8122bb59273/698850ed3c1639365f457fc1/ap733779928778.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 20, 2015  
### [Activists to March in North Korea](https://time.com/3890280/gloria-steinem-north-korea-south-womencrossdmz/)  
"I believe that we are ... breaking through this mental state that this is a permanent division"  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A mock execution scene in protest of Saudi Arabia beheadings in Dhaka October 15, 2011](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf487a61690f0744d/69884d1c5f570f1a0eb1b306/rtxxs25.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 19, 2015  
### [Saudi Arabia Is Looking For Executioners](https://time.com/3883537/saudi-arabia-job-post-executioners/)  
How long before they bring in the headhunters?  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Hassan Hassan, left, and other Rohingya refugees on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0ef54067710aa987/6987efd30b72e36f6f6e20db/img_8399.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 19, 2015  
### [Rohingya Say Quake-Ravaged Nepal Better Than Home](https://time.com/3859386/rohingya-refugees-nepal-earthquake-burma-myanmar/)  
“In Burma, just being Muslim is like a crime”  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Hip-hop artist Chinx on June 11, 2014 in New York City](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt29e9afb7e2a49446/69884cf906f2c18200339d5a/451069270.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 18, 2015  
### [Rapper Chinx Fatally Shot in Queens](https://time.com/3882223/rapper-chinx-shot-lionel-pickens-queens/)  
The motive for the attack is not yet known  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)

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