Pakistani authorities have arrested two senior police officers for negligence of duty over former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Almost three years after Bhutto was killed in the city of Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, city police chief at the time and Khurram Shahzad, a senior policeman, were arrested on Wednesday for their failure to protect Bhutto.

At least five civilians have been killed by US-led foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, amid growing discontent over the rising number of civilian fatalities in the war-wracked country.

Sudan’s president said the country would adopt an Islamic constitution if the south split away after a referendum due next month, in a speech on Sunday.

Afghan authorities say a day-long gun battle between the Taliban and security forces in northern Afghanistan, which left several troops dead, has ended. The deadly clash broke out earlier on Sunday following the seizure of an army recruiting center. Four armed militants wearing vests wired with explosives stormed the recruiting center in Konduz Province, killing […]

At least 19 members of Afghanistan’s security forces have been killed in an attack on an army recruitment center in the north of the war-ravaged country. Local officials in the northern Kunduz province say four attackers stormed the recruitment facility early on Sunday and at least one of them was able to detonate his explosives.

The Taliban on Friday rejected the review of President Barack Obama’s year-old war strategy in Afghanistan, saying that it has failed on both the military and the civil administration fronts.

Torture has been routinely used in prisons in Indian-administered Kashmir, a US cable released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks has suggested. The cable, released on Thursday, says that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had briefed US diplomats on widespread torture in 2005.

Four non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes have claimed the lives of at least 26 people in northwestern Pakistan amid public protest. The unauthorized airstrikes took place in the Khyber Agency tribal region on Friday.

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE – The PPP-led government suffered another setback as it plunged to another crisis Tuesday when JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced Tuesday that his party had decided to quit the coalition government.

Deoband: The new Hijri year 1432 came with sad news for all at Darul Uloom Deoband and its alumni spread all across the world. Maulana Marghoobur Rahman, Mohtamim (Rector/ VC) of Darul Uloom Deoband, India passed away on Dec 8 in his hometown Bijnor UP, India at 10:45 AM. He was suffering from various diseases […]