A suicide bomber attacked a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing five people, including one Briton.
Pakistan on Tuesday executed nine convicts, including four brothers, in the latest hangings since it lifted a moratorium on death penalty last year following the Peshawar carnage.
The perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attack, who shot dead 166 people, had confessed to details that should have been enough to hang him, but Pakistan enjoyed his anti-India rhetoric and let him spread his tentacles. A revealing excerpt from Khaled Ahmed's Pakistan's Terror Conundrum.
India today said none of its nationals was killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified luxury hotel in Afghanistan's capital. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi had said that four foreigners -- one each from New Zealand, Canada, Pakistan and India -- were killed in the attack on Serena Hotel which is used by UN staff and foreign diplomats.
The apex court asked the government to trace the missing persons within two weeks.
Pakistan and Britain have decided to set up a joint working group to deal with terrorism, much on the lines of the anti-terror mechanism Islamabad recently agreed upon with India.
The UAE government has revoked the ban that people who left their jobs or cancelled their resident visas faced.
The boat, whose capacity was 100 people, was overloaded.
Saudi security forces clash with militants in Riyadh and Medina killing two.
Thai govt to tame Muslim youths with football
Intelligence reports submitted to the interior ministry say that jihadi elements, including the al-Qaeda, are planning abductions of senior officials and top leader to seek the release of detained militants.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes just two days after a second round of a four-country meeting in Kabul aimed at reviving talks with the Taliban
At least 40 people were killed and hundreds injured on Wednesday when Egyptian security forces, backed by bulldozers, stormed two makeshift camps filled with ousted President Mohammed Morsi's supporters, even as the Muslim Brotherhood claimed that 300 died in the "massacre".
The request must be delivered at least eight weeks in advance to relevant authorities.
Hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad steamrolled over one of Iran's best known statesman to win the presidency on Saturday in a landslide election victory that cements conservative control over nation's politicial leadership.
Though women won full political rights a year ago, some of them have been intimidated during campaigning.
The head of the murdered American hostage Paul Johnson was found in a freezer in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Fifteen of these groups took part in sectarian violence, while the rest are jehadi outfits fighting against Western interests, the Daily Times quoted officials as saying.
Five people were killed and several wounded in the shootout Monday.
An American national, who was blacklisted and deported from Pakistan in 2011 after he was allegedly caught spying on sensitive installations, has been arrested after he arrived at the airport in Islamabad.
Egyptian police have detained a suspected mastermind behind last month's deadly attacks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, an Interior Ministry official said on Friday.
US and Iraqi forces freed a Briton and two Canadian hostages, including one of Indian origin, in a military operation Thursday.
The blast caused smoke to rise above the city and triggered an alarm in the US Embassy.
At least 37 people were killed in an attack near two hotels in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to Reuters news agency.
The Pakistan Boxing Federation lambasted the country's interior ministry for their lethargic attitude
Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts blew themselves up in the middle of a group of 500 special forces policemen protesting the disbanding of their unit.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the horrific suicide bombing attack on a shia mosque in Saudi Arabia, which took lives of at least 21 people.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had asked the agencies to hunt down terrorist agencies.
The Iraqi military said that the site of a meeting was struck killing several of the group's leaders.
The decision comes weeks after killing of two Chinese nationals who entered the country on business visa.
They were trampled in Mina valley near Mecca as they jostled to stone a pillar representing the devil.
Shahbaz was allegedly involved in the corruption of Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project and Rs 4 billion Punjab Saaf Pani Company scams.
German fans responded with shock and dismay after the national team suffered their first elimination in the first round of the World Cup for 80 years.
France's highest administrative body ruled that Sikhs can wear their turbans in drivers' licence photos.\n
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