A spokesperson of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) announced on Friday the party’s decision to withdraw from the federal government saying that they had reservations over the policy issues undertaken during the past four months, a private news channel reported.

A 40-day long ceasefire between the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella organization for various insurgent groups operating in Pakistan, with security forces ended Thursday without any official declaration from either side.

Syria’s state-run news agency says two car bombs have killed at least 25 people and wounded about 107 others in the central city of Homs.

At least 15 people were killed and 35 others wounded on Wednesday in Islamabad after a bomb exploded at a bustling fruit and vegetable market, officials said.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has threatened to take unilateral action against Palestinians, if they press ahead with moves towards statehood.

The Palestinians are ready to sign up the “state of Palestine” for additional international agencies and treaties if US peace efforts collapse after an April 29 deadline for a deal, a senior official said.

The Egyptian prosecutor-general on Sunday referred Mohamed al-Zawahri, the brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, and 67 others to criminal court on charges of founding and running an Al-Qaeda-linked organization.

ZAHEDAN- Four Iranian freed border guards have been received by some Sunni and Baluch influential men and security officials at a frontier point near the provincial capital Zahedan.

Afghanistan’s presidential election closed on Saturday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared for a vote that will bring the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by conflict for decades.

Leading Muslim imam Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari in Delhi’s Jama Masjid has announced his support for the ruling Congress party in looming elections, giving the beleaguered party a big boost of Muslim votes.