Seven NATO oil tankers have gone up in flames and a truck driver has been killed in another militant attack in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.

The deputy commander of the Pakistan Taliban confirmed the two sides were in peace talks.

Malaysia government has launched a new portal on Islam to serve as a source of reference for Muslims to get information and guidance on matters related to the teachings of Islam, the Malaysia Star reported on Tuesday, December 6.

Pakistan Military has pulled out its troops from at least two of the three centers meant to coordinate military activity across the Afghan border.

A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi’ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in a smaller blast in a key northern city, in Afghanistan.

International delegates are gathering in the German city of Bonn for a conference on the future of Afghanistan, but the absence of the Taliban and Pakistan from proceedings has raised questions about what the talks can achieve.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release.

The head of Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD), Abdelilah Benkirane, was was appointed on Tuesday by King Mohammed VI to forming a new government following his party’s victory in last Friday’s elections.

Pakistanis have once again taken to the streets of the southern port city of Karachi to protest against a deadly US-led NATO cross-border airstrike on two military checkpoints which killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers.

NATO helicopters have attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 24 troops, wounding 12 and prompting Pakistan to halt a vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.