India News: Parting ways with her husband, Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik, tennis star Sania Mirza opted for ‘khula’, sparking in the process a fresh conversation around this mode of dissolving marriages in the Islamic canon. Khula denotes divorce proceedings initiated by a Muslim woman and is based on her agreeing to forgo her mehr (money paid by the groom to the bride at the time of marriage) and subsequent maintenance in the form of financial aid. Read more on [].
Unidentified gunmen have killed nine foreign nationals in southeastern Iran near the Pakistani border, the semiofficial Iranian Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.