Independent human rights commission issues dire warning ahead of polls as jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeals his 10-year prison sentence He was sentenced over purchases of luxury apartments in London

A Pakistani government official says the death toll from a suicide bombing at an election rally in the country's southwest has risen to 128

Ahead of Pakistan elections, many extremists, militant and sectarian figures join campaign bandwagon

Police have arrested one of the four church priests accused of raping a woman in southern India

Christians, a tiny minority in Islamic Pakistan, have given a warm welcome to newly appointed Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Coutts in the southern port city of Karachi

Rohingya women pregnant from Myanmar military rapes suffer severe stigma; some aborted, others agonized over giving away unloved babies, one stuffed a scarf in her mouth to silence her screams of labor

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus

A suicide bomber has targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least 19 people

An Afghan official says a suicide bomber has targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least 19 people.

Afghan official: Suicide bombing in eastern Nangarhar province kills 10, including Sikhs, Hindus