A string of bombings left at least 93 people dead and over 150 wounded in one of the bloodiest days of violence that Balochistan has seen for years.

More than two million Muslims from around the globe gathered on the banks of Turag River outside the Bangladeshi capital on Friday, January 11, for the world’s second largest Muslim gathering after hajj.

A prominent Islamic scholar, Shaikh Mohammad Ali Amini, visited Darululoom Zahedan on Saturday, Jan. 5 where he presented discourses for students and teachers separately inside the seminary.

Rebel fighters in Mali have captured at least 12 government soldiers along with their vehicle and equipment, reports say.

Eight people have been killed and four others injured in two attacks carried out by US assassination drones in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan.

Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, urged on the legal rights of the Iranian Sunni community reminding the authorities to respect Sunnis’ sanctities and religious freedom. He was talking to hundreds of citizens in Khash city of the Baluchistan region in Iran.

The longest-serving chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) of Pakistan and former lawmaker Qazi Hussain Ahmed died of cardiac arrest late Saturday night in the federal capital. He was 74.

Armed militants attacked a passenger train and killed four people including a FC personnel and injured around a dozen in Bolan district of Balochistan, Pakistan, on Saturday night, an official said.

Ten people were killed including Taliban warlord Mullah Nazir and several others injured in multiple US drone strikes carried out in the South and North Waziristan tribal regions on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

The Taliban has likened the planned withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan to America’s pullout from Vietnam, calling it a “declare victory and run” strategy in a statement on Wednesday.