An agreement for Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions in exchange for the easing of sanctions has sparked a diplomatic row, with the the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, calling the deal a “historic mistake”.

The Long March of Baloch families for safe recovery of their loved ones which started on October 27 from Quetta culminated in Karachi on Friday with an appeal to the United Nations to intervene to end abductions and dumping of mutilated bodies of Baloch political workers.  

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide blasts in Karachi in which seven people were killed on Friday, Express News reported Saturday.

Various religious parties hold rallies and protest demonstration against the Raja Bazaar, Rawalpindi, incident across Pakistan.

The Secretary General of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Dr Mahmoud Hussein, has denounced the recent statements by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who described the Muslim Brotherhood as the most organised group in Egypt to hijack the 2011 revolution that toppled Mubarak.

John Kerry, US secretary of state, and six other foreign diplomats, will join talks in Geneva aimed at reaching a nuclear deal with Iran.

Seven major Islamist rebel groups battling President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria have announced a merger to form an “Islamic Front” and pledged to build an Islamic state in a post-Assad Syria.

A US drone killed six people in northwest Pakistan Thursday in only the second such strike outside the country’s lawless tribal districts, threatening to inflame tensions between Washington and Islamabad.

Senior Afghan officials have arrived in Pakistan to initiate peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, officials from both countries have said.

At least 29 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bomb attacks in mostly Shia areas of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.