Tunisian Prime Minster, Hamadi Jebali, vowed to resign yesterday, if his proposal to appoint a nonpolitical Cabinet by mid-week is rejected.

An explosion rocked the largest city in northern Mali early Monday following heavy clashes between Islamist militants and French and Malian troops.

Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan, alluded to the 34th anniversary of “Islamic Revolution” in Iran putting rule of one political wing or party against the interests of the country.

A suicide bombing at an army checkpoint in the northern Malian town of Gao has killed only the attacker, military officials say.

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