Afghanistan will hold parliamentary elections on September 18.

In an alleged attempted “honour killing”, a man poured acid on his daughter and threw her into a canal for planning to marry a man from another religion Tuesday, police said. The girl is in critical condition in hospital. Gulistan, 18,...

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have “strongly” deplored the attacks in India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 82 people and left over 900 injured.