The United States has placed a Pakistani political group called the Milli Muslim League (MML) on its list of foreign terrorist organisations, saying it was merely an alias for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), blamed for 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. The Milli Muslim League is controlled by LeT chief Hafiz Saeed.

Four Christians were shot dead in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, police said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The incident occurred in a Christian-majority neighbourhood in the city of Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province. Christians make up less than two percent of Muslim-majority Pakistan's 200 million people.

Dozens of civilians, including children, have been killed in an Afghan air attack on a gathering at a religious school in the northern province of Kunduz, eyewitnesses and an official said. A religious school in the Dasht-e-Archi district of the Kunduz province was targeted by air raids late on Monday, resulting in the death of at least 70 people, including top Taliban commanders, a district official told Al Jazeera on the condition of anonymity.

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe faces a no-confidence motion today that could go down to the wire and lead to political instability in the island nation, even if the government manages to scrape a win.

Facebook's chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg says the social media company is aware that its tools have been used to spread anti-Rohingya propaganda and "incite real harm" in Myanmar.

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai yesterday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said. Malala made a surprise return visit to Pakistan last week more than five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating girls' education. An airport official confirmed her departure.

Afghanistan's legislative elections will be held on October 20, officials said yesterday, following three years of delays. The polls were repeatedly pushed back due to security fears and logistical issues within the fragile unity government. If held, candidates will contest the 249 seats in the National Assembly for five-year terms.

A Nepali Sherpa is hoping to summit Mount Everest for a record-breaking 22nd time next month, during the busy climbing season that each year sees hundreds of climbers reach the top of the world.

India's national space agency has lost contact with a satellite days after it was launched into orbit with much fanfare, authorities say.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan’s Swat Valley for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend say.

Myanmar's parliament elects a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's new president, allowing her to maintain a tight grip on top-level decision-making.

Pakistan has defended its record on nuclear safety after the United States sanctioned seven Pakistani companies over alleged links to the

Pakistani police arrests 12 people — including members of a village council, elders and relatives — for ordering a man to rape a girl in revenge for the rape of his sister.

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, says in an interview.

The Pakistan government has rejected former dictator Pervez Musharraf's request for security on returning to the country to face a

India’s top court has agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the prevailing practices of polygamy and 'nikahhalala' among Muslims and asked the government and the Law Commission to give their view on the issues.

The bodies of the rest three Bangladeshis, who died in the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal’s Kathmandu, arrive in Dhaka.

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen will lift a 45-day state of emergency on Thursday and the government will bring bribery charges

Prithula Rashid, the co-pilot of the ill-fated US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal, killing 51 persons including 28 Bangladeshis, will be buried in Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ graveyard.

One of the injured victims of the US-Bangla plane crash, Shahin Bepari, is brought to Dhaka while another survivor Imrana Kabir Hashi is flown to Singapore.