Weeks of relative calm in Kabul were shattered by a suicide attack on an educational centre in a mainly Shi’ite area in the west of the Afghan capital that killed at least 48 people and wounded 67. read more

A suicide bomb targeted a Shia mosque in Afghanistan killing at least 29 people during Friday prayers read more

The suicide attack claimed by the Taliban, occurred at around 5 am local time when a car bomber targeted the security convoy in the west of the city, Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai said. read more

The suicide bombings in the city of Sweiba were apparently timed to coincide with attacks by a militant group linked to the Islamic state in a number of villages in the province, also called Sweida. read more

The attack in Mastung in southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, claimed by the Islamic State group, was one of the deadliest in Pakistan’s history. read more

Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz were arrested by anti-corruption officials on Friday after their arrival in Lahore from Abu Dhabi. read more

Earlier in the day, a bomb blast killed four people in the northern town of Bannu when it struck the campaign convoy of Akram Khan Durrani. read more

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs. The attacker struck a market located hundreds of metres from the provincial governor’s compound where Ghani was holding meetings, governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP. On Tuesday hundreds of members of India’s Sikh community took to the streets and protested the killings of these Sikhs and Hindus who lived in Afghanistan. Brandishing black flags and chanting they marched near Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi on Monday. (HT Correspondent)read more

The Sikh community, which now numbers fewer than 300 families in Afghanistan, are split about their future in the country. Some believe they cannot live there anymore while others say they will not be cowed down by the militant Islamic State. read more

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs and some of them Hindus. read more

At least 20 people, including 17 Sikhs and Hindus, were killed in a blast in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad on Sunday. read more

Afghanistan has a tiny Sikh and Hindu minority and today numbers only around 1,000 people. They have been targeted in the past by Islamic extremists. read more

A suicide bomber struck in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 14 people in the second attack in as many days targeting Taliban fighters, security forces and civilians celebrating a holiday ceasefire. read more

Two blasts ripped through the town of Damboa in Nigeria’s Borno state targeting people returning from celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, in an attack bearing all the hallmarks of Boko Haram. read more

The Taliban said no decision has been made for extension of ceasefire and operations will start from Monday. read more