Pakistan on Sunday released 172 Indian fishermen who had been held for violating territorial waters in the Arabian Sea, officials said.

"As a goodwill gesture, we released 172 Indian fishermen today," Muhammad Hassan Sehto, superintendent of Malir district jail in Karachi, where the fishermen were held, told AFP.

A newly built house in northern India collapsed early on Sunday killing 13 residents as they slept, the latest in a string of building cave-ins, police said.

The roof of the house suddenly gave way in Uttar Pradesh state, trapping the residents, four of whom managed to escape from the rubble with the help of neighbors, a police officer said.

A police officer has been arrested and charged with assault in Alabama after an encounter in which an Indian man visiting relatives was slammed to the ground and seriously injured.

The incident, which occurred on February 6 in Madison, Alabama, was captured on the police car's dashcam video and widely seen on the Internet.

India's foreign secretary will travel to Pakistan as part of a regional tour in coming months, an official said Friday, the first high-level visit since relations between the arch rivals soured last year.

S. Jaishankar will travel to Islamabad where "India will push its agenda" during bilateral meetings with officials, foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said at a briefing.

Uzbekistan is urging young people to shun "alien" Valentine's Day traditions such as sending cards, saying they should instead enjoy the love poetry of a 15th-century warrior-prince.

The Central Asian country has turned February 14 into "national poetry day," as the government attempts to combat what it calls the "pernicious influence" of Western mass culture.

A passenger train derailed in southern India on Friday after a boulder fell on the tracks, killing at least ten people with more bodies still trapped in the wreckage, officials said.

Scores of passengers were also injured in the crash that occurred Friday morning near Anekal, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the southern city of Bangalore.

Two young children were killed in Pakistan's Kashmir region on Thursday after picking up an explosive device that they thought was a toy, police said.

Police said the incident occurred in Kharal Maldilan village in the disputed Himalayan territory's Bagh district, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the capital Muzaffarabad.

An Indian military helicopter crashed late Wednesday in restive Kashmir killing two pilots, reports said.

The aircraft, identified as an Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH), came down in mountainous Bandipore district, some 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar, killing a lieutenant colonel and a major, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

India's Narendra Modi on Tuesday suffered his first major election setback since becoming prime minister last May, as anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal won a landslide victory in Delhi state polls.

Modi's Hindu nationalist party won just three of the 70 seats in the Delhi assembly in elections held over the weekend, dealing a setback to his efforts to consolidate power and push through much-needed economic reforms.

Pakistani and Indian officials Monday failed to reach agreement on the resumption of trade across their de facto border in the disputed territory of Kashmir, Pakistani officials said.

Trade was suspended after Indian authorities Friday detained a Pakistani truck driver accused of drug trafficking.