India has registered nearly an 800% spike in the number of so-called honour killings reported.

A suicide bomber smashed a truck packed with explosives into housing for a paramilitary force protecting Pakistan’s largest city today, killing at least one person.

Militants stormed a government building in Indian-controlled Kashmir today, setting it on fire with 70 staff trapped inside, police said.

An Islamic militant wanted in connection with the abduction and beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was killed in a police raid in Karachi today.

Government forces today killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of India’s most senior elected official in Kashmir, ending a 24-hour stand-off, police said.