The United States has started the withdrawal of military equipment from Afghanistan as at least 25 containers crossed the Torkham border point heading to the Pakistani port city of Karachi for shipment, local media reported on Sunday.

Jamiat Ulema Islam (Fazlur Rehman) leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has said that the party’s chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman is in Qatar as he is invited in the US-Taliban talks.

Exploiting the public fear of the militant group, criminal gangs in Pakistan are using Taliban’s name to extort money from businessmen, traders and citizens in the south Asian Muslim country.

French warplanes have carried out air strikes in Mali’s far north as they try to secure the final rebel stronghold of Kidal after a three-week offensive.

IRAN, ZAHEDAN- A prominent Sunni scholar, Molawi Abdullah Brahui, was assassinated by unknown miscreants on Friday, 1st Feb. 2013 in Zahedan city.

The spokesman for the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Ehsanullah Ehsan has said that the organisation was willing to hold talks with the government and security forces

Students with a particularly devout Muslim appearance in northern Mali are facing summary execution by Malian forces as French troops continue their airstrikes against Islamist rebels.

Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, witnessed a surge of violence on Thursday when a total of 17 men were killed in different parts of the city. Mufti Abdul Majeed Deenpuri, the vice president of Binoria seminary, his colleague Mufti Saleh and student Hassan Ali were killed in a brazen attack on Shahra-e-Faisal near Nursery.

Suicide bombers have attacked an army post in Pakistan’s northwest, killing 13 soldiers and 11 civilians, officials said, in an assault claimed by the Taliban.

At least two people have been killed and six others wounded in two separate bomb explosions in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi.