Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s senior minister and leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Sirajul Haq, was elected on Sunday as the new chief (ameer) of the party.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the second launched against an IEC office in the capital this week as they seek to derail the April 5 election it calls a Western-backed “sham”.

Three years on the start of the Syrian conflict, more than nine million of Syrian citizens have been forced to leave their homes, fleeing death and giving their country the title of the world’s leading country of forced displacement, a report by a UN refugee agency said.

Two separate bomb attacks targeting security forces in Pakistan killed 19 people on Friday, officials said, the latest violence to hit peace talks between the government and Taliban militants.

A South Korean girl band has removed a verse from the Noble Qur’an from the lyrics of a track in its latest album after facing Muslim anger who considered it blasphemous to use the Qur’an for purposes other than worship.

The peace agreement between the Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will be signed on March 27, Philippine presidential advisor confirmed Friday.

Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday that it would not stop members of the Muslim Brotherhood — listed among terrorist organizations in the Kingdom — from coming to perform Haj and Umrah.

Though the government and Taliban negotiating committees claim that the “fruits” of the much-hyped peace talks, aimed at cutting a negotiated end to 11-year long insurgency in the country, will surface in “weeks,” political and security analysts cast doubts on the outcome of the year-long talks.

NATO has said it will start reconnaissance flights over Poland and Romania to monitor the situation in neighbouring Ukraine where Russian forces have taken control of Crimea.

A group of Greek Orthodox nuns held for three months by rebels in Syria after being taken from their convent in Maaloula have arrived back in Damascus.