UN human rights experts urged Pakistan to take urgent measures against faith-based killings and protect the country's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, whose faith is now outlawed.
Police in the Pakistani province of Punjab filed charges of blasphemy against 68 Shi'ite lawyers after they staged a protest against the police beating of one of their colleagues.
Sherpas who guide tourists up Mount Everest go on strike following the deadly avalanche—as destabilization of the Himalayan glaciers portends more such disasters.
Sri Lanka's foreign ministry announced that it will not cooperate with a UN investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.
Sri Lankan authorities arrested two prominent human rights activists who were seeking information on the "disappeared" for alleged violations of anti-terror laws.
Militant group Ahrar-ul-Hind, demanding implementation of Sharia law, claimed a suicide blast at a court complex in Islamabad that left 11 dead and 25 injured.
Gunmen attacked a Sufi religious gathering in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, leaving eight dead—the latest in a wave of such attacks by Deobandi fundamentalist militants.
The main opposition party in Sri Lanka is demanding the government conduct an investigation into alleged crimes carried out in the long war against the Tamil Tigers.
Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf died at age 87 while awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
Another leader in Bangladesh's main Islamist party was charged with crimes related to the 1971 war, in what the opposition calls a plan to eradicate its leaders.
Protests swept through Bangladesh after the government executed Abdul Quader Mollah of Jamaat-e-Islami party for crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
Outrage is mounting in India against the killing of journalist Sai Reddy—at the hands of Maoist guerillas, even though police had portrayed him as a Maoist sympathizer.
