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An aircraft which crashed in bad weather near Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Friday was a Pakistani commercial airliner, local television channels have confirmed.

Taliban militants attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing at least 380 prisoners, including at least 20 insurgents described by police as ‘very dangerous’ authorities and the militants said.

A massive earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, US and Indonesian monitors reported, prompting a Indian Ocean-wide tsunami alert.

At least 100 Pakistani soldiers were buried in a remote area in the north when an avalanche hit their camp, the military said on Saturday.

Twenty-three Indian fishermen were arrested and four of their boats seized for fishing 'illegally' in Pakistani territorial waters, an official said.

The United States has posted a $10 million reward for help in the arrest of a Pakistani Islamist leader, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, suspected of masterminding attacks on India's financial capital and its Parliament.

Supporters of Burma's Opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers on Sunday after her party said she won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time.

Pakistan's interior minister on Saturday revealed that the police foiled a plot to attack Parliament during a presidential address and said a finance ministry official had been arrested.

Kashmiri leader Shabir Choudhry has accused Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik of being a “habitual liar” who is misleading Pakistan’s memogate enquiry commission.