TEHRAN: Following the issuance of an illegal order to halt Sunnis in Tehran from establishment of Eid prayers, Sunni members of the Iranian Parliament asked president Ahmadinejad to follow up the case.

MASHHAD: The Iranian authorities have released a famous Sunni scholar of Khorasan province, Shaikh Muhammad Mowahhid Fadheli, Khateeb of Sunnis in Taibad city on bail. He was freed on Sunday, August 21, 2011.

Rebels overran Muammar Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli Tuesday, raising their flag and ripping the head off his statue as they celebrated a symbolic, if not yet real, end to the strongman’s iron-fisted 42-year rule.

Sustained automatic gunfire and a series of explosions rang out in Tripoli overnight as rebels launched efforts to permanantly free the Libyan capital from Muammar Gaddafi’s grasp, according to reports from witnesses and rebels.

Libyan rebels have reportedly taken control of the centre of the oil-rich eastern town of Brega, just 50km east of Tripoli.

Ethnic and criminal violence blamed on gangs has killed 65 people in Pakistan’s financial capital of Karachi, with police the latest victims shot dead in a brazen ambush, officials said Saturday.

A coordinated attack Friday on a British compound in Kabul involving two suicide bombers and a five-hour long firefight between Afghan security troops and attackers who penetrated the complex killed at least 10 people, Afghan officials said.

Libyan opposition forces have pushed further to isolate Tripoli, moving toward a western town that links the capital and Sirte — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown and a stronghold for his military.

ZAHEDAN- Shaikh Abdul Hameed has criticized state-taken steps and suspicious propagandas against the International Movement of Tablighi Jama’at in the country in his latest Friday speech.

Libyan revolutionary forces have entered the coastal city of Zawiyah, which is located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Tripoli, according to the latest reports.