Geneva, [Switzerland], Sept 17 (ANI): Political activists from Pakistan have requested Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak about the human rights violations in Sindh and other provinces during the upcoming UN General Assembly session.
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept 17 (ANI): In a regressive step, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has made it mandatory for female students of government-run schools to cover themselves up in the province's educational institutions.
Kabul [Afghanistan], Sep 16 (ANI): At least one person was killed and five others suffered injuries in a magnetic improvised explosive device (IED) blast that targeted university students in the central Afghan province of Ghazni, the police said on Monday.
Ar-Rai [Syria], Sept 16 (Sputnik/ANI): At least 11 people were killed and over 20 suffered injuries in a car bomb explosion in the Syrian village of Ar-Rai in the west of the northern province of Aleppo, a local source told Sputnik on Sunday.
Ghotki (Sindh) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Hundreds of protesters ran amok in Pakistan's Sindh province after the principal of a school, belonging to the minority Hindu community, was falsely accused of blasphemy and booked in the matter.
Paktika [Afghanistan], Sept 15 (ANI): In a joint counter-terrorism operation by the Aghan and the US forces, 110 Taliban terrorists were killed or injured in the South-eastern Paktika province on Sunday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], Sept 15 (ANI): As many as 12 Taliban terrorists, including senior group commander Mawlawi Noorudin, were killed in an airstrike carried out on the outfit's hideout in the relatively peaceful province of Samangan on Sunday, the country's army said.
Halmahera [Indonesia], Sept 15 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale struck off the coast of Halmahera island of Indonesia on Saturday.
Nuristan [Afghanistan], Sep 14 (ANI): Police in Afghanistan's Nuristan province on Saturday detained a suicide bomber who was allegedly planning to stage an attack in the region.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], Sept 14 (ANI): Over 900 more people have been affected by dengue fever in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which is in the grips of the mosquito-borne disease outbreak.
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 13 (ANI): India on Friday advised Pakistan to look into its own cases of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the provinces of Balochistan, Sindh and other regions instead of peddling false narrative on the Kashmir issue at the UNHRC.