Kyrgyzstan has voted in a referendum on a new constitution amid fears of renewed inter-ethnic violence. Voting ended at 8pm local time (1400GMT) on Sunday. The country’s election commission said 58 per cent of registered voters cast their ballots. Results are due on Monday.

Another deadly US drone attack has killed at least six people and injured several others in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, officials say.

SARGODHA: An Anti Terrorism Court in Sargodha on Thursday sentenced five Americans accused of contacting militants in Pakistan over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks to 10 years each in prison, Pakistani media reported on Thursday.  “Each of them have been sentenced to 10 years in jail on terrorism charges,” Nadeem Akram Cheema told AFP […]

LAHORE: A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material.

At least 15 US-led troops have been killed in Afghanistan in two days amid a surge in Taliban attacks against the foreign forces in the war-torn country.

BALUCHISTAN: Shaikh Abdul Hamid criticized sectarian and ethnic discrimination practices on Baluch people and Sunni community in Iran. Shaikh was talking to a ceremony in the southern region of Sistan-Baluchistan province.

ZAHEDAN- A rebuttal statement has been issued from the Office of Sheikh Abdul Hamid, Imam and preacher of Friday for Sunnis in Zahedan, (may God protect him) over the claims which have been put by some extremist websites on the political position of Shaykh. These web sites accused him to have extremist political opinions.

At least nine Nato soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, military officials have said.

KHURASAN/ TAYBAD: According to the official web site (Anwar Web) of Anwar-ul-Uloom KhairAbad, Taibad in the province of Khorasan Razavi, the fifth ceremony for graduate students was held.

Six people have been killed in a deadly bomb attack in southern Afghanistan as the United Nations voices concern over the deteriorating situation in the country.