Four explosions rocked Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula in the wee hours of the day slated for the first national election since the government declared victory over the Tamil Tigers.
An Indian court rejected a request by suspected Mumbai gunman Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab to be tried in an international court as he could not receive a fair trial in India.
A 20-hour gun battle at a hotel seized by militants who had earlier killed an officer at a police checkpoint in Indian-controlled Kashmir ended after police killed two militants.
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings urged an investigation of possible war crimes after authenticating a video of Tamil Tiger members being executed by Sri Lanka’s military.
Six months after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war some 245,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) remain in camps, where aid donors are increasingly concerned over harsh conditions.
India’s Naxalite guerillas have broached a ceasefire and dialogue with the government after an audacious attack on a police patrol in Maharashtra that left 17 dead.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court suspended a hearing on whether to re-arrest Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group said to have been behind last year’s Mumbai attacks.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan declared that former president Pervez Musharraf violated the constitution when he declared emergency rule in November 2007.
Under UN auspices, Nepal has started freeing an estimated 3,000 child soldiers from camps holding former Maoist guerilla fighters.
Thousands of protesters marched on an army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir, following the apparent murder of a young woman by an Indian soldier.
At least two soldiers were killed and three others wounded by a suicide blast in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud claimed responsibility.
Security forces fired on protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, wounding at least seven in the worst clash since unrest broke out last week over the deaths of two young women.
