Pakistan's ex-PM Sharif re-elected head of ruling party despite scandal surrounding his dismissal by top court

Myanmar authorities have taken foreign diplomats and UN representatives on a tour of conflict-torn northern Rakhine state, where a security crackdown has led to an exodus of a half-million Rohingya Muslims

A Sri Lankan court has remanded a Buddhist monk who, alongside other hard-line Buddhists, stormed a U.N. safe house for Rohingya Muslims, forcing the refugees to flee for protection

Five weeks after a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar began, the U.N. says the number of arrivals in Bangladesh has now topped a half a million

Pakistan's interior ministry has asked the country's elections overseeing body to ban from politics a new party backed by Islamist Hafiz Saeed who carries a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head for alleged involvement in 2008 terror attacks in India

Hospital official says at least five people killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing outside a Shiite mosque in Afghan capital Kabul

Afghan police say a suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a Shiite Muslim mosque in central Kabul

Hospital official says 4 killed, 20 wounded in suicide bombing outside Shiite mosque in central Kabul.

AP PHOTOS: Buffaloes, goats, ducks and other animals decorated, then sacrificed at Hindu festival to the goddess Durga in India