Pakistan's Federal Shariat Court ordered that former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and other ex-high officials be added to the treason case against deposed strongman Pervez Musharraf.
The death of at least a dozen peasant women in a Chhattisgarh sterilization program comes in the context of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Naxalite guerillas.
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal convicted opposition politician MA Zahid Hossain Khokon to death for crimes committed during the 1971 war with Pakistan.
A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami to death for crimes committed during the 1971 war with Pakistan.
India's Maoist rebels issued an appeal to the Naga Regiments to resist deployment as a paramilitary counter-insurgency force to guerilla-held regions of the country.
India has opted to buy Israel's Spike anti-tank guided missile, beating a rival US deal—an advance for the Tel Aviv-Delhi "anti-terrorist" alignment.
A former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader, Ghulam Azam, who was imprisoned for war crimes last year, died of a heart attack in a prison hospital.
Pakistan's Lahore High Court upheld the death sentence for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of "blasphemy" in a case emerging from an argument among farm workers.
Renewed fighting between India and Pakistan across the Line of Control in Kashmir follows devastating floods in the divided region, which have deepend local anger.
Survivors of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms filed a class action lawsuit against India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a US district court under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
India's Mars orbiter arrives at the red planet just days after NASA's latest probe. These missions are less about "science" than geopolitics on Earth—the New Cold War with China.
A Pakistani court ordered police to open an investigation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and cabinet members for killings of protesters in Islamabad's Red Zone.
