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Haqqani was recently summoned to the Pakistani capital to explain his actions.

The killing occurred when Sadia decided to return home in order to patch things up with her family.

About three million people were murdered during the nine-month civil war and hundreds of thousands of women were raped.

According to reports by the WORLD Health Organisation, there has been a four-fold increase in polio cases in Nigeria.

PTA’s Ban on ‘Obscene’ Words Garners Backlash: Top Tweets Trending on Twitter

The hype and expectation circling the still elusive 100th international century for Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, is a clear indication of the pathetic state of sports, in general, in India.

It was not the acclaim of an international prize that motivated a 11-year-old Pakistani girl to oppose the Taliban's decision to ban education for girls in her neighborhood. Malala Yousufzai, now 13, attracted attention from around the world and focused it on the sorry state of affairs in the Swat Valley, which is located close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, simply because she wanted a better life, where nobody would stop her from learning or watching her favorite Indian television series.

The PTA has banned a list of words they consider obscene from use in mobile texts and have instructed service providers to block them or face the consequences. The blockade started on Nov. 21, purportedly under a 2009 bill titled Protection from Spam, Unsolicited, Fraudulent and Obnoxious Communication Regulations.

The BCCI dismissed former player Vinod Kambli's claims of possible corruption in India's 1996 World Cup semi-final loss to Sri Lanka but Sports Minister Ajay Maken has demanded a probe.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a list of 586 Urdu words and 1,109 English words as offensive or pornographic. It has directed the cellular operators to block these words .

U.S. presidential hopeful Herman Cain believes the Taliban is involved in the new Libyan government, the candidate indicated Friday.

Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has banned certain words from text messages.

There is controversy over the very existence of the memo.

For over two decades, India has maintained hundreds of thousands of armed forces in this border state where a violent insurgency, partially fueled by training and funds from Pakistan, raged for several years.

Ever since she can remember, Katherine Cummings knew she had been born into the wrong body.

Superbugs capable of evading even the most powerful antibiotics are increasing their grip in Europe with rates of drug resistance in one type of bacteria reaching 50 percent in the worst-hit countries, health officials said Thursday.

George Harrison inadvertently became the greatest promoter of Indian culture and Hinduism to the Western world during the 20th century.

The number of honor killings in India is unknown since many of these deaths are masqueraded as “suicides” or “accidents.

Given the increasing presence of women in high levels of politics around the world, I am wondering what the “standard protocol” for such greetings should be?

Pakistan's Baluchistan province has rejected a mining lease application from Chilean copper producer Antofagasta and Canada's Barrick Gold , raising questions over the future of their Reko Diq copper-gold project.

Xun Wang, the ex-managing director of a U.S. company's Chinese subsidiary, pleaded guilty to conspiring to export material to Pakistan for use in a nuclear reactor.