Alluding to the martyrdom of Mawlana Mohammad Adil Khan, a prominent Pakistani scholar and president of Jamia Farooqia Karachi, Sunni scholars in Iran denounced his assassination urging on identifying and trying the terrorists.

Maulana Dr Adil Khan, a religious scholar and head of Karachi’s Jamia Farooqia seminary, was shot dead along with his driver in a suspected targeted attack in the city on Saturday, officials said.

Referring to the 76-month prison sentence for Mawlana Fazlu-Rahman Koohi, a prominent Sunni scholar in Iranian Baluchistan, Mufti Mohammad Qasem Qasemi called officials to review the sentence and release him.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire from midnight on October 10, and plan to start “substantive” talks over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday, after nearly two weeks of fierce fighting in the disputed territory.

The French president’s recent claims about Islam amount to a dangerous provocation, Turkey’s president said on Tuesday.

Mawlana Fazlu-Rahman Koohi, a prominent Sunni scholar of Iranian Baluchistan was sentenced to 76 months in prison by a Court in Mashhad.

Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another of firing directly into each other’s territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks as their conflict over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh threatened to descend into all-out war.

Former ministers L. K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi will not be present in the special court in Lucknow on Wednesday when the Babri Masjid demolition verdict is expected to be delivered, NDTV news channel said on Tuesday.

Criticizing the national and provincial officials for violating the rights of religious and ethnic communities in Iran, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid termed it a great injustice.