Afghanistan's interior minister and intelligence chief have resigned in the wake of attacks that came perilously close to disrupting the country's peace jirga in Kabul last week. The resignations of Amrullah Salih, head of the National Security Directorate of Afghanistan, and Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar deal a blow to the Afghan president's efforts to piece together a workable cabinet and could have far-reaching consequences.
Turkey has demanded that Israel accept an international inquiry into last week's deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza. The call, from the Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, came as the fallout from the botched operation overshadowed the opening of a 20-state conference on Asian security in Istanbul.
Pakistan's budget for the fiscal year 2010-2011 calls for $5.2 billion for defense -- an increase of at least 17 percent.
At a summit with the EU in Brussels, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani failed to make noticeable headway on Pakistan's chief aim -- securing free trade with the bloc.
Khurshid Khan, an eminent 60-year-old lawyer and deputy attorney general of Pakistan, has adopted an extraordinary measure to "heal the wounds" of the terror-stricken minority Sikh community in that country.
U.S. officials say Al-Qaeda's third-in-command, whose role spanned from operations to fund-raising, is believed to have been killed in a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda confirmed the death in a message posted on Internet forums.
Relatives are burying the victims of the terror attacks at two mosques of the minority Ahmadi community in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore.
The U.S. and EU have condemned attacks in which suspected Islamist gunmen slaughtered at least 80 people belonging to a Pakistani minority sect.
Unidentified assailants have gunned down four policemen in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.
Pakistani police say gunmen have killed at least 20 people in attacks on two mosques where a minority Islamic sect worships in the northeastern city of Lahore.
Pakistani officials say an air strike has killed 15 militants in an attack on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Watchdog Amnesty International has warned that human rights abuses continued to plague the world in 2009, with torture or ill treatment, unfair trials and imprisonment, and restrictions on free speech among the most common violations.
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