A defense lawyer says a Pakistani death-row inmate has requested that a court suspend the "un-Islamic" practice of hanging prisoners because it is "too painful"

Lawmakers are choosing India's next president in an election likely to be won by a Hindu ally of the ruling party

India's top court has stayed for three months a ban introduced by the Hindu nationalist government on the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter

India's home minister says the Islamic State group has been unable to gain its feet in the country despite it being home to the world's second largest Muslim population

Australia's prime minister has told Parliament that he telephoned Afghan President Ashraf Ghani "to restate Australia's resolve to assist and support Afghanistan in its fight against Islamist terrorism."

India has banned the sale of cows for slaughter to protect an animal many Hindus consider holy, but states and industries say the ban will hit beef and leather exports and deprive millions of people of a cheap source of protein