Up to 70 people on board an IranAir passenger jet have been killed and more than 30 injured after it crashed in the country’s northwest, IRNA, the Iranian news agency, says quoting an Iranian Red Crescent official.

More than 100,000 people rallied in Karachi on Sunday against proposed amendments in blasphemy laws.The massive rally, organized by religious parties, was addressed by Jamat-ud-dawa  Molana Ameer Hamza, Jamat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan’s Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair, JI Karachi amir Muhammad Hussain Mehnati and others.Describing the proposed […]

People in southern Sudan have begun voting in a landmark referendum on independence from the north as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned that southern Sudan is not ready for independence.

A hit Malaysian Islamic reality TV show is widening its search for the best young Muslim leader by inviting contestants from around the world to take part in the programme.

Two civilians were killed and eight injured in overnight clashes with police in a provincial town, the Tunisian government said on Sunday, in the latest in a series of riots across the north African country.

Sudan’s president has warned that south Sudan would struggle as an independent nation were it to vote to secede from the north. Speaking just days before a referendum, which is expected to see southerners vote to establish a separate country, Omar al-Bashir told Al Jazeera that he was concerned about possible instability in the south […]

NATO says three US-led troops have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan, amid a surge in militant attacks against foreign forces in the country. The Western military alliance said two soldiers were killed in the east, while the other was slain in the south. NATO has withheld all other details about the […]

Three US-led NATO troops have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, raising the death toll for foreign soldiers to six only five days into 2011. Two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the east and the third died in a similar attack in the south, AFP reported on Wednesday.

The governor of Pakistan’s powerful province of Punjab, Salman Taseer, has been killed by his own bodyguard in the capital Islamabad, police sources say. Taseer, a senior member of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari, was killed by his own guard in the capital Islamabad on […]

KERMANSHAH: The Iranian authorities have cancelled legal leave of Shaikh Saifullah Hussaini, he has been shifted from “Hajiabad Bisetoun” jail to the central jail of Dizelabad, Kermanshah in the western province of Iran.