Sri Lankan activists and journalists are demanding the government end a weeklong shutdown of several social media sites now that anti-Muslim violence in the island's central hills has eased

Pakistan's top court has indicted a minister in a contempt case for scandalizing the court in speeches made after the court disqualified former premier for concealing assets

Pakistan swears in newly elected Senate members, including for the first time a woman from marginalized Hindu minority

Pakistani police say they have arrested a man and his accomplice for throwing a shoe at former premier Nawaz Sharif in the eastern city of Lahore

Rights activists in Pakistan are expressing concern over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents, saying it could lead to the persecution of minorities, particularly adherents of the Ahmadi faith

Pakistani court orders electoral commission to register Islamist party backed by a radical cleric who carries a U.S. bounty on his head for alleged involvement in terror attacks in India

Calm was beginning to return to violence-hit Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka's Kandy region, with many shops reopening as army reinforcements largely put an end to Buddhist mob attacks that hit the area

Residents say Buddhist mobs have swept through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka's central hills, destroying stores and restaurants despite a curfew, a state of emergency and a heavy deployment of security forces

Tibetan monitoring groups say a man has set himself on fire and died in western China's Sichuan province in the first self-immolation protest among Tibetans this year

Residents say anti-Muslim rioting has flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka despite a state of emergency, as the government ordered popular social media networks blocked to stop the violence from spreading