PAKISTAN

Border tensions are running high between Pakistan and Afghanistan as both nations accuse each other of cross-border missile attacks and territory breaches.

Power outages lasting 18 to 20 hours a day are not unusual across Pakistan.

Dadaab lies near Kenya's border with Somalia, and members of the Somali rebel group al Shabab have carried out attacks and kidnappings in Kenya in the past.

Since 2001, Pakistani media estimates, at least 800 Hazara have been slaughtered in the country.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has never conducted an official memorial during the games to honor the Munich victims.

While Bangladesh has a secular legal structure for most matters, things like marriage, divorce and inheritance are subject to religious dictums.

Surjeet?s release from prison caused some confusion last week, when it was reported that another Indian prisoner in Pakistan with a similar name, Sarabjit Singh, was going to be freed from death row.

In Pakistan, a case of mistaken identity has led to an embarrassing U-turn for administration officials.

The president even told his senior aides that he had ?the least power to prevent? the potential collapse of Pakistan.

The chaos and turbulence in Pakistan can also be illustrated by the fact that the job of Prime Minister was abolished on no less than five occasions.

The issue that forced out his predecessor ? the refusal by Gilani to probe Zardari for alleged corruption ? may doom Ashraf as well, if the courts again demand he take such action.

Known as 'Ghaus-e-Azam' by Muslims and 'Kahnoow' by the Hindus, Jeelani is revered by both faiths in Kashmir.

The 62-year-old Ashraf resigned from his post as water and power minister in February 2011 under a cloud of corruption allegations, although he denied any wrongdoing on his part.

In the latest development in Pakistan following the political mayhem triggered by an apex court order disqualifying ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, the ruling Pakistan People's Party Friday named former information technology minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as its choice for the post of prime minister.

South Asian taxi drivers not only have a very hard and thankless profession, but they are caught in a vortex of prejudice in which they are both the victim and perpetrators of racism and discrimination.

Arsalan was acused of having received 342 million Pakistani rupees ($3.6 million) from real estate magnate Malik Riaz Hussain in order to influence cases in the court.

Shahabuddin is a prominent member the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), who most recently served as textiles minister under Gilani

Afghans have been fleeing their homeland in massive numbers since 1979 when Russian tanks invaded their mountainous nation

President Asif Ali Zardari, who is intimately involved in the intrigue surrounding Gilani?s removal from office, has cancelled a trip to Russia in order to deal with the emergency.

France's BFM-TV said the man had asked to speak to the same elite police unit that shot Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah, who died in a hail of bullets just 100 yards from the scene of today's siege.

Pakistan is one of three countries in the world where polio is still endemic.