Protests have spread from Dhaka to Chittagong, Bangladesh, on April 27 in response to a building collapse that has killed more than 300 factory workers, Al Jazeera reported.

A bomb killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen when it exploded April 26 outside the election office of Bashir Jan, a candidate for the secular Awami National Party, in Karachi's western Mominabad neighborhood, AFP reported.

A prominent leader of the Hazara Democratic Party in Pakistan survived a suicide attack in Quetta on April 23 that killed six people, Reuters reported.

Nine people were taken hostage by the Taliban on April 21 when a helicopter owned by an Afghan company made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan's Logar province, officials said April 22, AFP reported.

Taliban militants launched two attacks in Afghanistan on April 21, killing at least 9 people, AP reported.

A roadside bomb that exploded as a military convoy passed killed four soldiers and wounded four others in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence officials said April 21, AP reported.

Taliban insurgents killed 13 policemen at a checkpoint in the southeastern Afghanistan province of Ghazni, the governor of Andar district said, AFP reported.