Sheikh Abdul Hameed demanded the Iranian government to review the discriminatory policies which Sunni sect has been suffering in Iran for many years.

ISTANBUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he will press for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist, as peace overtures intensified heading into a London conference.

MIRAMSHAH: A suspected US drone has crashed in North Waziristan, sources said Sunday.

Kurdistan: Sheikh Asaad Siddiqi and Sheikh Saeed Zulfiqari, the great Sunni scholars and prominent personalities in Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces had passed away.

Khorasan: the Iranian authorities have arrested a group of Sunni scholars and thrown them in prison.

TEHRAN: Seven people were killed and another 12 injured on Saturday when a train travelling from the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad to Tehran derailed, an official told state-run television.

ISLAMABAD – Angry with the Obama administration’s position on arch-rival India, Pakistan’s Army has rejected a US request to launch a new offensive against Taliban in the northern tribal belt.

One attack took place near the presidential palace where Karzai was swearing in cabinet ministers [AFP]

Talesh: According to reports Sheikh Quraishi, the head master of Talesh school and Imam of the Mohammadi Masjid in Talesh province, is arrested by Iranian intelligence on Sunday 10/01/2010 and then he was taken to the custody in Talesh. Intelligence  agents searched  his home with no warrant and took his belongings from his room such […]

On Thursday, the rumours circulated widely that the Americans had got their man – the leader of Pakistan Taliban had been killed in a drone attack. From Peshawar to Islamabad, officials speculated Hakimullah Mehsud was dead.