The reconstituted Pakistan Supreme Court Monday dismissed five out of six challenges to the October re-election of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf while still serving as chief of Pakistan's army. The...

Pakistani bar leaders have expressed dismay at the shutdown of Geo-TV and another independent Pakistani television channel, declaring the closures an unconstitutional violation of free speech contrary to Article 19 of the now-suspended national charter...

Singaporean human rights group SG Human Rights called Sunday for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to split off the human rights section of its proposed new charter into a separate treaty. Chapter 14...

Khieu Samphan, the president of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) from 1976 to 1979 during the communist Khmer Rouge regime has defended the late Khmer Rouge dictator Pol Pot in a new book, denying that he...

The Iraqi parliament Saturday ordered an investigation into the delay of a referendum on the future of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after Kurdish leaders accused the Arab-dominated Iraqi central government of...

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is likely to face 8 1/2-year old corruption charges again in the likely event that an amnesty ordinance issued by President Pervez Musharraf is thrown out...

UN officials reported Friday that chairwoman of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief Asma Jahangir has been released from her two-week house arrest...

Canadian opposition parliamentarians Dennis Coderre (Liberal) and Paul Dewar (NDP) Friday called for Canada's government to stop allowing detainees captured by Canadian forces in Afghanistan to be transferred to Afghan custody, alleging that once transferred, suspects are...

Former Iraq Deputy Health Minister Hakim Zamili and another top ministry official will be put on trial for allegedly assisting Shi'ite militias, the Iraqi government said Saturday. A spokesman said that the trial shows...

Lawyers in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, went on strike Saturday in protest at President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. Members of the Karachi Bar Association and other local bar associations followed an earlier strike call from the Pakistan Bar Council...