REUTERS NEWS PICTURES SERVICE - PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013
RNPS - PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013 - Pakistani Police Inspector Shazadi Gillani (C) talks to a member of her team at a police station in Abbottabad September 18, 2013. When Gillani, the highest ranking female police officer in Pakistan's most conservative province, wanted to join the force she had to defy her father, forego marriage and pay for her own basic training. During the next 19 years, Gillani and her faithful sidekick Rizwana Zafar, brought up as a boy after becoming her frustrated father's ninth daughter, have battled bandits, earthquakes and militants. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS TPX)
Controversial Indian scheme aims to end baby girl murders
A second chance for unwanted infants or a licence to abandon girls?
Anti-corruption activists fail to win better access to UN meetings
The activists, attending the UNCAC conference in Panama, lobbied for observer status at a number of meetings to which they are currently denied entry, but nine countries voted for the meetings to remain closed to outsiders
Disaster-prone villages in south Pakistan trained in early warning
The U.S. government backs a project to equip villages in southern Pakistan, often hit by floods and storms, with knowledge and tools to manage disaster risk
Lawyers, families urge Pakistan to free Bagram detainees
PAKISTAN-BAGRAM/:Lawyers, families urge Pakistan to free Bagram detainees
ANALYSIS-Saudis have few options as they push tougher foreign policy
IRAN-DEAL/SAUDI (ANALYSIS)=2:ANALYSIS-Saudis have few options as they push tougher foreign policy
REUTERS NEWS PICTURES SERVICE - PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013
RNPS - PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013 - Azra, 68, looks at her dead pet bird in a cage at her home, which was previously burnt by a mob, in Badami Bagh, Lahore March 11, 2013. Hundreds of Pakistani Christians took to the streets across the country demanding better protection after the Christian neighbourhood was torched in the city of Lahore in connection with the country's controversial anti-blasphemy law. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW RELIGION TPX ANIMALS)
Karzai accuses U.S. of cutting Afghan military supplies in security row
Karzai accuses his U.S. ally of withholding military supplies to press him to sign a bilateral security deal that will shape the U.S. military presence after most foreign troops leave in 2014, an accusation swiftly denied by Washington
A HIV patient displays the wounds on his legs at Pakistan Society in Karachi
A HIV patient displays the wounds on his legs as he waits to receive medical treatment at Pakistan Society, a non-governmental organization (NGO) Drop-In Centre, in Karachi November 30, 2013. People around the world will observe World AIDS Day on December 1. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: HEALTH)
HIV patient Khursheed sits near a locker room at Pakistan Society in Karachi
HIV patient Khursheed, 30, sits near a locker room during his rest hour at Pakistan Society, a non-governmental organization (NGO) Rehabilitation Centre, in Karachi November 30, 2013. People around the world will observe World AIDS Day on December 1. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY)