One of Britain's leading diplomats has warned that a row between the United States and Afghanistan over last week's presidential elections could serve to undermine the
Ahead of his fourth visit to China since taking office, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari voiced public support for Chinese policy in its restive autonomous region of Xinjiang. Saying he
On Friday, Kafayat Ullah, a key aide to Pakistan's most notorious Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, told the Associated Press over telephone that Mehsud has been killed in a
In a seminar on Thursday, Bangladesh's Law Minister Shafique Ahmed announced that the government of Bangladesh was seeking a return to the 1972 Constitution. Referring to the Fifth
While delivering a sermon during Friday prayers at Tehran University, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Iran was in crisis. Referring to the political chaos following the disputed
On Thursday at least 50 people were killed and over 125 wounded in multiple terrorist attacks in Iraq. Suicide bombers struck at Tal Afar, in northern Iraq, killing 34 people
In what is being regarded by civil society figures in Bangladesh as a momentous decision, on Thursday the Bangladesh parliament passed a key ordinance reactivating its hitherto nascent National Human
On the second day of its long-anticipated offensive into Taliban-controlled territory, the US military has sustained its first casualties. One US marine was killed and several others injured during combat
Twelve people have so far been arrested in the wake of three days of riots in Dhaka which left two people dead and hundreds injured and also resulted in a
"I won't refrain from securing the rights of the Iranian people... because of personal interests and the fear of threats." Such were the wordsof former Iranian
In an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has saidthat, due to a "reassertion of leadership" in the middle east on
In the past five days, four members of the illegal Islamist terrorist organisation Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrestedin Chapainawabganj in northwest Bangladesh. The men were all
