Police in Pakistan say gunmen riding on a motorcycle have shot and killed a human rights activist in the northwestern city of Peshawar

China ruling Communist Party has ordered local government to better regulate the construction of large outdoor religious statues amid increasing restrictions on religious expression of all kinds

Sunni extremists demolish mosque belonging to Pakistan's minority Ahmadi sect in eastern city of Sialkot

India's governing Hindu nationalists have criticized the archbishop of New Delhi for airing his view that a turbulent political atmosphere is posing a threat to the country's democratic principles

The archbishop of New Delhi has waded into Indian politics, urging Catholics to pray for democracy and marginalized people

After centuries of traversing the Himalayas, life is changing for Kashmir's Bakarwal nomads, who have seen cities close in on them, hostility from locals and this year, a horrific gang-rape and death of a child _ a crime committed to drive them away

Pakistan's military says security forces have raided a militant hideout, triggering a shootout in which an intelligence officer and a notorious militant wanted for over 100 deaths of minority Shiites were killed along with two other suspects

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party ended Congress party rule in a key southern state on Thursday, but its poll victory was marred by questions over who has the right to form the government

India has announced that its troops will halt counterinsurgency operations in disputed Kashmir during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first such declaration in 18 years

A humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's Kachin state is unfolding as thousands of people make jungle treks to escape an army offensive against rebel troops that is rolling into a second month