Saudi Arabia has welcomed Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family a day after they fled an mass uprising in their country.A statement released by the country’s monarchy said the decision to welcome Ben Ali was based on appreciation of the “exceptional circumstances” in Tunisia.

Thousands of demonstrators in Pakistan have gathered in major cities to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about the country’s blasphemy law.The demonstrators in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi chanted slogans against the recent statements made by the Pope in which he asked the death penalty to be scraped for those who insult Islamic sanctities.

A group of unidentified gunmen in southwestern Pakistan have set ablaze 20 NATO tankers carrying oil to US-led soldiers stationed in war-hit Afghanistan.According to some witnesses, unidentified armed men on Friday night opened live ammunition on tankers at a time when the drivers were inside a roadside restaurant near Dera Murad Jamali in Balochistan province […]

The top US military official has cast doubts about the time of a withdrawal from Afghanistan and the number of American forces to leave the violence-wracked nation.The head of the Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen reiterated that the Pentagon does not know how many soldiers will be pulled out in July and predicted […]

At least eight Afghan security officers have lost their lives while twenty-nine others have been wounded after a massive explosion rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul.The attack took place during the morning rush hour on Wednesday as a motorcycle bomb targeted a minibus carrying Afghan security personnel near the parliament building in western Kabul, a Press […]

KURDISTAN: The Iranian authorities last week detained two members of “Maktab-e-Quran Movement of Kurdistan” from Baneh city of Kurdistan, western Iran.“Sunnionline” quoted from a Kurdish web wire that last week on Tuesday, 4th January, after 1:00 A.M the policemen and security officials of “Baneh” searched out homes of Usman Abdi and Yassen Qaderi, the members […]

KABUL: A Nato airstrike in central Afghanistan killed three Afghan police officers who were mistaken for insurgents, the coalition said Monday, in an operation that could cause new friction between the international force and a government struggling to find stability.

Up to 70 people on board an IranAir passenger jet have been killed and more than 30 injured after it crashed in the country’s northwest, IRNA, the Iranian news agency, says quoting an Iranian Red Crescent official.

More than 100,000 people rallied in Karachi on Sunday against proposed amendments in blasphemy laws.The massive rally, organized by religious parties, was addressed by Jamat-ud-dawa  Molana Ameer Hamza, Jamat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan’s Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair, JI Karachi amir Muhammad Hussain Mehnati and others.Describing the proposed […]

People in southern Sudan have begun voting in a landmark referendum on independence from the north as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has warned that southern Sudan is not ready for independence.