Saturday 06 March 2010
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India
An Afghan soldier with US troops in Marjah, Afghanistan
An Afghan soldier with US troops in Marjah, Afghanistan
Reuters
By Judith Prescott

Officials in Pakistan claim a top Taliban commander has been killed in a gunbattle. Six soldiers die in one of the deadliest days of fighting in Afghanistan so far. Bangladesh's High Court tells police to stop harrassing women who do not wear the full-face Muslim veil. Tens of women and children are killed in a stampede at a temple in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh.

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