Authorities in Pakistan have evacuated at least 500,000 people from at-risk areas in the south as the worst floods in living memory threatened the country’s farming heartland.

At least 31 people have been killed in the Pakistani city of Karachi after clashes broke out following the killing of a local politician, local media has reported.

A curfew has been enforced in Indian-administered Kashmir following clashes between residents and security forces that left nine people dead.Five people died on Sunday after security forces opened fire on pro-independence protesters while another four were killed after a crowd attacked a police station.

ZAHEDAN: The Iran government has banned on abroad travels of the leader of Sunni community of Iran and the head of Darululoom Zahedan University Shaikh Abdul Hameed.

Rescue workers in Pakistan are attempting to reach thousands of people stranded by the worst floods in the country’s history, as the death toll rose to more than 430.

The Taliban claim that US-led forces in Afghanistan created the explosion against a civilian bus to blame the group for the killing of innocent people of the country.

Remarks by David Cameron, the British prime minister, that Islamabad should not “promote the export of terror” have angered Pakistani officials.Cameron made the comments on Wednesday during a visit to promote increased trade with India, which has tense relations with neighbouring Pakistan.

A passenger plane carrying about 150 people has crashed into the Margalla Hills near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. The accident occurred as the plane was attempting to land on Wednesday morning in bad weather.

At least 25 civilians have been killed and another 27 injured in a roadside bombing in southwestern Afghanistan. The explosion struck a bus travelling on a highway in Nimroz province around 7 am Wednesday (02:30 GMT), officials said.

Taliban sources have told Al Jazeera they are holding one of the two US servicemen who went missing in eastern Afghanistan’s Logar province, and say the other is dead.