Jail authorities in Pakistan were on Tuesday set to hang a paraplegic who developed tubercular meningitis while on death row after being convicted of murder, which according to rights group will be the 300th execution since the controversial moratorium was lifted in the country. Abdul Basit, 43, who...

Amnesty International India Tuesday asked the Assam government to release a journalist from custody and guarantee him a fair trial after he was accused of having links with banned militant outfits. Kokrajhar-based 44-year-old Jaikhlong Brahma was detained Sep 2. He was sent to judicial custody by a ...