ZAHEDAN: The twelfth annual competition which consist of debates & writing articles has started on Tuesday, 25th May 2010, in DarulUloom Zahedan University.

Somalia’s al-Shabab, the armed anti-government group, has attacked the presidential palace in Mogadishu, leaving at least 14 civilians dead, officials and witnesses say.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked 800 web pages and URLs to limit access to “blasphemous” material, extending a crackdown that has already banned access to Facebook and YouTube, an official said Saturday.

US-led soldiers and civilian contractors sit in a shelter during a ground and rocket attack at Kandahar military base on May 22, 2010. Gunmen have attacked the main military base for US-led forces in southern Afghanistan as anti-US sentiment in the war-weary nation reaches new heights.

MIRANSHAH/ ISLAMABAD: The death toll of missile strike by US drones in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) has reached to 10, a private TV reported. According to sources, 10 people including women and a minor girl were killed in US drone attack.

A South African cartoonist has received death threats after printing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammed. South Africa’s Council of Muslim Theologians tried and failed in court to block publication of the image by the Mail & Guardian, a weekly newspaper in Johannesburg.

At least seven German soldiers have been killed in northeastern part of Afghanistan, increasing the number of foreign troops killed in the country, the Taliban claim.

At least seven Taliban fighters have been killed and nine Nato troops wounded in an assault on Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Nato says.

At least 18 people have been killed, including eight Afghan civilians and six Nato troops, in a suicide car-bomb attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say.

ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber attacked a police van in Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including a DSP and three other policemen, a doctor said.