Pakistan has lost 49,000 security personnel and civilians to the so-called war on terror since 2001, media reports said on Wednesday.

Baghdad– Heba al-Shamary (name changed for security reasons) was released last week from an Iraqi prison where she spent the last four years.

Having a special symbolism for the two-year uprising, a mosque in the western Syrian city of Deraa has become a main focus of fighting between President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces and opposition troops.

The national meeting of Sunni students of different universities was held in Darululoom Zahedan on Thursday, March 7, 2013 under the motto “The era of Islamic awakening, human generosity, freedom and social justice”.

Ten years after the US intervention in Iraq, unfair trials and torture are still common, says Amnesty International. The former occupying powers have also not dealt with the abuses for which they were responsible.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hameed Isma’eelzahi left Iranshahr heading to Nikshahr city next day (Monday, 18 Feb.) in his latest journey to some central and southern regions of Baluchistan, Iran.

Ten years ago this week, British forces entered Iraq’s second city, Basra, as part of the U.S.-led invasion of the country.

The leading Sunni leader and chairman of the Coordination Council of Sunni Seminaries of Sistan-Baluchistan, Shaikh-ul-Islam Abdol-Hameed, visited head cities and towns of central and southern Baluchistan from Saturday 16 Feb. to Thursday 21 Feb. 2013.

The Croatian capital has served for months as a transit point for Saudi-financed weapons for Syrian rebels, a local newspaper said on Friday, but the report was swiftly denied by the government.

The country’s largest and most resource-rich province is also the most impoverished. Almost half of the population of Balochistan qualifies for financial support under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).