Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country.

US-led forces have targeted a mosque in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 25 civilians during the airstrike, Afghan officials say.

MULTAN: A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of the famous Baba Farid Shakar Ganj sufi shrine in central Pakistan’s Pakpattan district during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, officials said.

TEHRAN: The Iranian authorities have confiscated passports of some of the top Sunni scholars in Tehran’s international airport on Thursday, 21st October. The security authorities have prevented them to leave the country for Turkey.

ZAHEDAN: Shaikh Mohammed Islam Mullazahi, an old teacher of Darululoom Zahedan and the head of financial affairs of the seminary was stabbed by unknown persons on Tuesday evening, 20th October in “Beheshti” street of Zahedan, east of Iran.

The official web site of the Sunni community of Iran, SunniOnline, has been attacked by unknown hated elements in a large-scale for the second time within ten days.

TEHRAN: The extremist groups and some authorities have curbed Sunnis in Tehran province to offer Friday prayers with congregation after forbidding them before to offer Eid prayers in the capital of Iran.

ZAHEDAN, IRAN: Due to the detention of passport of Shaikh Abdul Hameed, the eminent Sunni scholar and the chairman of Union of Sunni seminaries of Sistan-Baluchistan by the Iranian authorities respected Shaikh has cancelled his trip to Qatar where he wanted participating in the Eighth Conference of Doha Interfaith Dialogue.

TEHRAN: The Iranian authorities have arrested Haji Abdul Raheem Shah Bakhsh, the son-in-law of the prominent Sunni scholar, Shaikh Abdul Hameed in Tehran.

Pakistan has freed a top Taliban commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who can play a major role in secret talks with the US through the Pakistani army.