PAKISTAN

Drug abuse, including heroin, is sweeping across Punjab, India.

The Egyptian satirist paid about $2,000 and left a prosecutor's office amid throngs of supporters.

A popular Egyptian satirical show host was issued an arrest warrant Saturday for allegedly insulting Islam and President Mohamed Morsi.

Syria's conflict is worsening every day, and the West can help. But U.S. interventions and weapons shipments have a history of backfiring.

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani children are at risk for contracting polio after the Taliban threatened local health workers.

Over the past year, a number of mosques have been attacked, vandalized and defaced.

A suicide bomber rode to a security check post in Sadar, Peshawar, and detonated explosives in his vest; 22 people were also injured.

Not everyone is happy with the $3 million book deal that Malala Yousafzai has received to write her life story.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head, plans to pen her life story.

PPP officials have tried to downplay the apparent rift between father and son.

Last month, Esquire published the tale of “the man who killed Osama bin Laden.” But according to CNN and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, it’s “complete B.S.”

U.S. officials are likely eager to squelch the general perception that Washington wants to heavily influence political policy in Pakistan.

To Indians, Bhagat Singh is a combination of Robin Hood, George Washington and Robert the Bruce.

Authorities in the Indian states of Bihar and Maharashtra imposed restrictions on the sale of a cough syrup.

Samsung will initially ship 10 million Galaxy S4 units and as many as 70 percent will be powered by the Snapdragon 600 processor.

Ex-Presisdent Musharraf will ultimately have to face some very serious charges, including conspiracy to murder.

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf returned to his homeland Sunday, ending his long self-exile.

Sikhs and Hindus are both besieged minorities in Pakistan, a country that was artificially created in 1947 by the partition of India.

The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution strongly criticizing Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes.

Yakub Memon, one of the 1993 Mumbai bomb attack masterminds, had his death sentence upheld on Thursday.

A U.S. district court in New York unsealed on Wednesday the indictment of an alleged al Qaeda operative who was charged last month, paving the way for a trial.