In a statement issued on International Day of the Midwife, the WHO said the maternal mortality rate in Afghanistan remains among the highest across the world, at 521 deaths per 100,000 live births

Pakistan’s military said it killed at least 13 terrorists belonging to Fitna-al-Khwarij in operations carried out in Mohmand and North Waziristan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, near the Afghanistan border, on April 28 and 29