A Pakistan court has sentenced 10 men to life in prison for the attack on women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai.
More than 120 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar, in north-eastern Pakistan.
Pakistan’s police force have arrested 50 villagers in the eastern town of Kot Radha Kishan in relation to the lynching of a Christian couple for allegedly desecrating pages of the Quran.
Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzi and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have jointly been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Zulfiqar Shah describes why the Scottish independence referendum provides an opportunity for the UK to looks to its former colonies and consider its obligations towards democracy in countries of the former British Empire.