Religious groups and political parties convened by the Jamaat-e-Islami asked the Pakistani government to repeal a new "un-Islamic" law that protects women from domestic abuse.
Pakistani authorities prepared for civil unrest after the execution of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, convicted assassin of a liberal governor who advocated secular reform.
Taliban militants attacked a student poetry recital in honor of Pashtun independence hero Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan at a university that bears his name, leaving 20 dead.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
The Kashmir-based United Jihad Council claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the Indian air force base at Pathankot, near the border with Pakistan.
A military campaign against the Taliban in Pakistan's Tribal Areas has left a million displaced over the past year—and is now compounded with anti-hashish operations.
ISIS claimed responsibility for blasts that targeted Shi'ites as they gathered in Dhaka for a procession marking the holy day of Ashura.
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of a former police guard for killing politician Salmaan Taseer over his support for a woman convicted of blasphemy.
An Indian anti-terror court convicted 12 members of a Muslim student group in connection with the deadly bombings of seven commuter trains in Mumbai in 2006.
Despite early pledges to seek a nuclear-free world, Obama is launching a "modernization" of the US arsenal that actually makes atomic war more likely.
Up to 28 were killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in Xinjiang, as Chinese authorities take measures to discourage observance of Ramadan in the mostly Muslim region.
In a deal with village elders, women are being denied the vote in northwest Pakistan's local elections—as clerics call for military action against "immodest" dress.
