French and Malian troops have taken control of the historic Malian city of Timbuktu, after rebel occupiers fled the ancient Sahara trading town and torched several buildings, including a priceless manuscript library.

Two Pakistan Air Force security guards and a shopkeeper have been killed in an attack carried out by gunmen in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan province, officials say.

The outstanding Sunni scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, made it clear in a mass gathering of Sunni worshippers in Zahedan that nations can get progress and efflorescence only through unity, urging solidarity can not be obtained by slogans and mere wishes.

Mali forces backed by French troops are advancing towards the northern key town of Timbuktu after seizing the rebel stronghold of Gao, French officials have said.

At least 21 policemen were killed and 18 others, mostly civilians, were wounded in two separate suicide attacks Saturday in a crowded area of the northeast Afghan city of Kunduz and southern Kandahar city, provincial authorities said.

French and Malian troops have entered the key central Malian towns of Diabaly and Doutenza, both of which have been in the hands of al-Qaeda-linked rebels for weeks.

Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the headquarters of the Kabul traffic police on Monday, local officials said, in the second coordinated attack on a government building in less than a week.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hameed urged on implementation of justice and equality in all fields counting injustice main cause of all wars, insecurity and protests across the world in his latest Friday speech on January 18, 2013.

A fire broke out in a plaza on Abbot road near Lahore’s Lakshmi chowk in the early hours of Sunday killing six people including a child,  whereas officials reported rescuing 43 victims who were trapped in the fire, DawnNews reported.

The hostage crisis in Algeria had been ended by the Algerian military with loss of life, according to Philip Hammond, UK defence secretary. At least seven captives were reported to have been killed and 16 foreign hostages freed after the Algerian military stormed a gas installation in the desert where they were being held by […]