Aid officials, rights workers and community leaders in Sri Lanka say Tamils are being driven out of areas in the northeast by killings and kidnappings carried out by pro-government militias.
Thousands of Sikh protesters rioted across India’s Punjab region following the slaying of dissident Sikh guru Sant Ramanand, who was attacked at a gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Vienna.
US satellite photos released this week show Pakistan has expanded two sites crucial to its atomic program—apparently in an effort to bolster its nuclear arsenal. Pakistan denied the charges.
As celebrations break out in Colombo over the Sri Lankan armed forces’ taking of the last strip of coastline controlled by the Tamil Tigers, reports warn of a grave humanitarian crisis.
Sri Lankan government forces are accused of shelling a hospital, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 50 others at Mullivaikal, in the besieged zone controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
Alleged Mumbai terror attack suspect Mohammed Ajmal Kasab pleaded not guilty in an Indian court to 86 charges stemming from his participation in the November 2008 attack.
The lawyer for the accused gunman on trial for the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks moved to suppress his client’s confession, arguing it was the product of torture.
Naxalite guerillas killed 17 in India’s “red corridor” of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa as voters went to the polls in elections for India’s Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament.
Six paramilitary troops were killed in India’s Orissa state as Naxalite guerillas attacked a bauxite mine. Days earlier, a Naxalite ambush on a jungle patrol in Chhattisgarh left 10 troops dead.
In another win for the opposition, Pakistan’s Supreme Court suspended its February decision barring former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding elected office.
At least 20 have been killed as gunmen seized a police academy in Lahore. Meanwhile, Obama warned Islamabad: “If we have a high-value target within our sights…we’re going after them.”
Pakistan is failing to control the Lashkar-e-Taiba group in the disputed territory of Kashmir and between 40 and 50 terrorist camps are operational in the region, Indian army chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor said March 25, the same day the army… Read moreLashkar-e-Taiba rocks Kashmir
