The court also acquitted three other men charged over the kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter.
Over the past week,India's migrant workers spilled out of big cities in an exodus unlike anything seen in India since 1947 when British colonial rule ended.
Shaniera Akram was working in PR in Melbourne in 2011 when she met former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram,whose wife had passed away two years earlier. Married in 2013,the couple live in Karachi.
When the ABC's Sophie McNeill began her dream job as Middle East correspondent in 2015,the region was ablaze. The next three years left her distressed at the rest of the world’s lack of interest.
Businesses in Iran's capital remained open even as other countries in the region grounded planes,sealed their borders and moved toward full lock-downs.
Women and men joined the event in Islamabad for what is known in Pakistan as the Aurat March,using the Urdu word for women.
Australia is on the verge of letting all of its foreign aid deals expire,sparking calls for a major overhaul of the development program.
The remains of a teenager who had been missing for two days have found in the lions'enclosure at a safari park in Pakistan,officials said.
Donald Trump was cheered by more than 100,000 Indians at the opening of the world's biggest cricket stadium on Monday,promising"an incredible trade deal"at his biggest rally abroad.
Trump predicted that the crowds will make his domestic campaign rallies,typically attended by 10,000 to 20,000 people,"look like peanuts from now on".
The Pakistani political activist and writer talks on her career and the men who have influenced her.