Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has appealed for new recruits from North African Arab countries in its fight against what it said was France’s Crusader campaign in Mali, a U.S.-based intelligence monitoring website reported on Sunday.

One of the prime characters of the Lyari gang war, Arshad Pappu, along with his brother was killed in Lyari, one of the oldest localities of Pakistan’s financial nerve Karachi, early on Sunday, police said.

Addressing hundreds of Sunni students, the leading Sunni scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Isma’eelzahi, urged Muslims have experienced a history with ups-and-downs; now they have been sure that there is no any option but to return to the Islamic civilization and principles.

Sharing their experience after embracing their new religion, Muslim reverts in India have come together to discuss their conversion stories and tackle problems they are facing, Two Circles website reported Sunday, March 10.

Christians demonstrated in cities around Pakistan on Sunday to protest after a Muslim mob torched more than 100 Christian homes following allegations of blasphemy.

SANANDAJ- A Kurdish Sunni student, Asma Cheshmeh-Kaboudi, of PhD has been banned to continue her studies in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, of Iran.

ZAHEDAN- Hundreds of Sunni students of universities took part in their annual national convention inside Grand Makki Masjid of Zahedan, southeast Iran, on Thursday March 7, 2013.

At least nine people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul as US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel visits the country, officials have said.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions, days ahead of a new government bid to have him deported.

At least 45 people have been killed by a bomb explosion in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.