ISIS and the Taliban both claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack at a police academy in Quetta, while Pakistani authorities blamed the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi network.
Dalits ("Untouchables") in India's Gujarat state launched a protest mobilization to oppose a wave of terror by Hindu fundamentalist vigilantes given a free hand by authorities.
After a deadly ISIS siege of a Dhaka cafe, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the absurd statement that the attackers "don't have any religion."
Thousands of people attended the funeral of slain qawwali singer Amjad Sabri in Karachi, the day after he was shot dead in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
Police opened fire on peasant protestors at the site of a coal-fired power plant project in the Chittagong district of Bangladesh, killing at least four.
Pakistan's government succeeded in persuading thousands of protesters occupying downtown Islamabad to stand down by pledging not to reform the country's blasphemy laws.
Inter-caste violence and protests mount in India as corporate interests seize untitled peasant lands, increasing economic pressure on rural communities.
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.
The Bangladeshi government imposed a social media blackout ahead of the execution of two opposition figures convicted of war crimes committed during the 1971 independence war.
ISIS claimed responsibility for blasts that targeted Shi'ites as they gathered in Dhaka for a procession marking the holy day of Ashura.
Over 40 Indian writers have returned their awards to the National Academy of Letters in protest of a wave of deadly attacks on secularist and rationalist writers and activists.
Rival factions of India's longest running ethnic insurgency are divided on whether to accept a peace deal with the government—as Delhi turns up military heat on the hold-outs.
