Reuters - Afghanistan expects to sign a trade agreement with Pakistan this month in a move which could boost stability, but only if its neighbour drops opposition to forward-traffic with India, business leaders said on Saturday.

Reuters - The death toll from a suicide attack in a volatile border region of Pakistan climbed to 102 on Saturday, showing the militants' continued ability to stage deadly strikes despite losing ground in army offensives.

Reuters - An exchange of fire at the Indian-Pakistan border near Pakistan's Punjab province has killed two Indian troops and wounded a Pakistani soldier and several villagers, officials said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Police fired at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir on Tuesday, killing three civilians, authorities said, the latest violence in a region at the core of a dispute between India and Pakistan.

Reuters - Pakistan is looking to exploit a shake-up in the U.S. command in Afghanistan to bolster its allies within the Taliban and increase its influence over a future Kabul government, analysts say.