Taliban Thugs have killed no less than 30 Pakistani and Afghan Muslims in attacks in both countries.
Islamists have kidnapped the son of the assassinated Pakistani politician who defended a Paki against blasphemy laws.
Islamists in Thailand have murdered 6 in that country.
India has set the date for the execution of the 1991 assassins of Gandhi.
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Officials say at least nine insurgents were killed in the fighting Saturday.
Authorities say the attacks began in Arando village in Pakistan's northwestern district of Chitral, near Afghanistan's Nuristan province. Militants then attacked more areas near the border.
Cross-border raids have raised tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent months as they battle protracted insurgencies by Taliban and al-Qaida-linked insurgents.
Pakistani authorities have launched a major operation to find the abducted son of a Pakistani governor assassinated earlier this year for opposing the country's controversial blasphemy law.
Witnesses say Shahbaz Taseer was abducted in Lahore's upscale Gulberg area early Friday, when kidnappers intercepted his car and took him away in their vehicle.
No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, but relatives say the Taseer family has been receiving threats from extremist groups.
Taseer is the son of former Punjab province Governor Salman Taseer, who was killed by his bodyguard in January in Islamabad after publicly supporting a woman accused of committing blasphemy.
On Friday, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said the kidnapping of Shahbaz Taseer underscores the inability of Pakistani officials to provide security to those known to be at high risk.
The alleged assassin of Salman Taseer, Mumtaz Qadri, is on trial. He surrendered to police shortly after Taseer's death and confessed to the crime, saying he killed the governor for criticizing Pakistan's blasphemy law.
The abduction of Shahbaz Taseer is the second high-profile kidnapping in Lahore this month. About two seeks ago, American aid expert Warren Weinstein was seized at his home after eight gunmen overpowered his security guards.
Police have arrested three people suspected of belonging to the gang that kidnapped Weinstein. Authorities have also released a sketch of a suspect in the case.
So far, the kidnappers have not contacted authorities or made ransom requests.
Afghan officials say a car bomb has exploded near a southern bank, killing four people and wounding more than 20 others.
Authorities say 10 soldiers and at least four police were among the wounded Saturday in the blast in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province.
Control of security in Lashkar Gah passed from foreign to Afghan forces in July as part of the first wave of a transitional process that is due to see all foreign combat forces leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Later Saturday, Afghan officials say two blasts in the southern city of Kandahar wounded at least 20 people.
Indian officials say three men convicted of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi 20 years ago will be hanged September 9.
President Pratibha Patil rejected the men's clemency petitions earlier this month.
Prison officials say the men have been informed about the date of the hanging.
A lawyer for the men told an Indian newspaper that he will seek a stay of the hangings and a set-aside of the death sentences.
The men were sentenced to death in 1999 for their part in the assassination, but had appealed to the president for mercy.
Twenty-six people were tried, convicted and sentenced to death in the case. However, India's Supreme Court subsequently changed the majority of the sentences to life in prison.
Mr. Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 as he campaigned in southern India for reelection. He was killed by a woman suicide bomber who exploded a bomb wrapped around her waist as she knelt to touch Mr. Gandhi's feet.
Soon after the assassination, the Tamil Tigers said they killed Mr. Gandhi to protest India's involvement in Sri Lanka's civil war.
Police in Thailand's violent south say suspected Muslim militants killed six people and wounded another Friday in coordinated attacks.
Authorities said the first attack took place overnight, when the suspected militants shot and killed a worker at a rubber plantation in southern Narathiwat province.
Officials said the suspected insurgents then bombed a truck carrying six defense volunteers who were responding to the shooting. Authorities said five of the volunteers died when the bomb – buried in the road – detonated. The sixth defense volunteer suffered severe injuries.
Southern Narathiwat province is one of three Muslim-dominated provinces bordering Malaysia.
More than 4,600 people have been killed in violence in southern Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces since a Muslim insurgency began there in January of 2004.
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