Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat provincial chief Maulana Shamsur Rehman Muavia was assassinated in a drive-by shooting near Ring Road when he was on his way home after Friday prayers.

The Red Cross said it has collected the bodies of 281 people killed during two days of violence in the capital of the Central African Republic.

As the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan approaches, there is an air of uncertainty about the post-2014 situation in that country.

Nelson Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, has died aged 95.

Prominent Qatar-based cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi resigned from the governing body of Egypt’s Al-Azhar on Monday in protest at the head of the institution’s support for the country’s military-backed government.

The United States has suspended shipments of equipment out of Afghanistan through Pakistan due to protests against US drone strikes that posed a risk to truck drivers.

School-age refugees who have fled Syria’s civil war to neighboring countries are cut off from education and are increasingly becoming primary providers for families who lack resources for basic survival, the United Nations said Friday.

The Bashar al-Assad regime and the Syrian National Coalition, Syria’s Western-backed political opposition, committed this week to peace talks aimed at pursuing the lofty goal of a mutually agreeable transitional government that can end the two-and-a-half-year war.

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan, PPP-Shaheed Bhutto head Ghinwa Bhutto and other political leaders on Tuesday visited the hunger strike camp established for recovery of missing Baloch persons outside Karachi Press Club.

Afghan elders at a grand assembly in Kabul have called for a security deal with the US to be signed this year.