Mashhad- Rectors and teachers of Sunni seminaries in Khorasan region, eastern Iran, have refused to accredit the state-run Planning Council for Sunni Seminaries in a letter to the concerned authorities.

An Afghan soldier shot and killed four French troops on Friday in eastern Afghanistan and a helicopter crash killed six more NATO service members in the south, officials said, marking a particularly deadly 24 hours for coalition forces.

A helicopter operated by the US-led NATO alliance has crashed in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, leaving at least three people dead, Press TV reports.

A video footage showing American soldiers urinating at the dead bodies of Taliban fighters is sparking a storm of anger and condemnations from Muslims around the world.

The Western military alliance, NATO, says two more US-led of soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan’s troubled south.

Zahedan/Chabahar- Prominent Sunni scholar, Mawlana Abd-ur-Rahman Chabahari has announced his severe and complete rejection of the disputable state-organized Planning Council for Sunni Seminaries in previous days.

The Taliban say they will step up “political efforts” to secure peace in Afghanistan in response to US moves to open new talks with the group, but a spokesman for the movement said it did not intend to give up its armed struggle as a precondition for negotiations.

Suspected Baloch separatists have ambushed a convoy of paramilitary troops in the Turbat area of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, killing 14 soldiers, security officials said.

ZAHEDAN- Shaikh Habibullah Marjani, a teacher of Darululoom Zahedan, Iran, has been released after more than 8 months imprisonment on Monday, 9th January 2012.

In their first public gesture toward peace talks with the United States, the Afghan Taliban are planning to open a political office in the Gulf country of Qatar, a move seen as would help reach an end to the decade-long war in Afghanistan.