![Khalili, a former Afghan vice president, is also a member of the ethnic Hazara community which was targeted in an attack in the Pakistani town of Mach on January 3 [Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2007-06-22T120000Z_390265059_GM1DVNQDQPAA_RTRMADP_3_JAPAN-AFGHANISTAN-e1610454540112.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
High on the agenda is the continuing peace process between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban.
![A general view of a residential area is seen during a power breakdown in Karachi [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-09T201515Z_1518155863_RC2K4L9DQMNK_RTRMADP_3_PAKISTAN-BLACKOUT.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
A major fault at a thermal power plant causes a countrywide blackout, plunging millions into darkness.
![Since the attack, the relatives of those killed placed their coffins on a highway in Quetta and refused to bury the dead until the killers were apprehended and Khan came to meet them [Saadullah Akhtar/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/WhatsApp-Image-2021-01-08-at-4.44.54-PM.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Khan says he sympathises with community that has faced targeted attacks, but will not visit until the dead are buried.
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Pakistan demands action against armed groups ‘finding sanctuaries’ in Afghanistan, a day after Pakistani soldier killed.
![Ethnic Hazaras in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but least populated and poorest province, have long been persecuted for their faith, facing targeted attacks and large-scale bombings that have killed hundreds in the last two decades [Saadullah Akhtar/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Masooma-3.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Protesters demand killers be brought to justice and a commission to probe the continuing attacks against Hazaras.
![The Khattak General Store in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, survived the COVID pandemic, but its owner, Aamer Khattak, says COVID was tough on his small business [File: Asad Hashim/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_7501.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Traditional grocery stores survived COVID by quickly recognising the changing needs of customers they already knew well.
![In 2016, the BBC had named Baloch as one of its 100 'inspirational and influential women' [Courtesy: Karima Baloch's Twitter]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/twitter-one.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Karima Mehtab Baloch received several death threats before she went missing on Monday and was found dead a day later.
![Tensions have been high at the LoC for the last two years, with frequent violations of a 2003 ceasefire agreement by both countries [M.D. Mughal/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20319464754087.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
A 50-year-old woman killed, three others, including a four-year-old child, wounded in the incident.
Rights groups call for an independent investigation amid a rise in attacks and threats to Pakistani dissidents abroad.
![The two countries frequently accuse each other of sponsoring armed groups or planning attacks against the other [File: Anjum Naveed/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1873409f2e75431aa3e47bd2578552fd_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Foreign Minister Qureshi warns that Pakistan would strike back ‘a notch above’ if it was attacked by India.