Former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf’s rocky return to his homeland continues on Monday as the country’s Supreme Court hears an application to have him stand trial for treason.

At least 11 children have reportedly been killed in a NATO airstrike in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.

A bomb in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province has killed five Americans – three soldiers and two civilians serving with the Nato-led forces – and an Afghan doctor.

Hundreds of thousands of people have held protests in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has confirmed that a US foreign service officer has been killed in southern Afghanistan.

Suicide bombers disguised as soldiers have stormed an court in western Afghanistan, killing at least 46 people in an attempt to free Taliban fighters standing trial, officials say.

Taliban’s reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could contest the presidential elections, due in 2014, President Hamid Karzai told A German newspaper on Tuesday.

The Taliban militant group claims it has shot down a US drone in the Afghanistan’s eastern province of Parwan.

Pakistani youth would prefer Islamic law or military rule over democracy, a British Council survey suggests.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has said that he will release all political detainees, as tensions ease following recent agreements with South Sudan.