The Pakistani Taliban killed at least five police officers and wounded six others in multiple attacks in the country’s northwest, police said yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s wildlife and railway authorities announced yesterday a series of low-tech measures, including adjusting timetables to reduce night-time train collisions, following the worst wildlife accident that killed seven elephants.

Pakistani forces have managed to free 155 hostages from the besieged train, with an unknown number of passengers still onboard

Armed militants yesterday held hundreds of train passengers hostage in an ongoing siege claimed by a separatist group behind rising violence in southwestern Pakistan.

Sri Lanka yesterday signed a deal with Japan to restructure $2.5 billion in loans, marking the first agreement with bilateral creditors who had pledged debt relief to the cash-strapped nation last year.

At least 12 civilians were killed, including three children, and dozens injured Tuesday evening after two explosive-laden vehicles were detonated at an army compound in northwest Pakistan, officials said, with the attack quickly claimed by a militant group

A woman suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Pakistani paramilitary troops in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan yesterday, killing at least one soldier and injuring four others, officials said.

Pakistan authorities have sealed the home of an NGO chief who authored a report alleging widespread rigging in national elections last year, he told AFP on Saturday.

Gunmen killed four members of the Pakistani security forces and their driver in an attack in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police told AFP yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell by 4.0 percent in January, the highest deflation rate since July 1960, official data showed yesterday, as the South Asian nation emerges from its worst economic meltdown.

Pakistan criminalised online disinformation yesterday, passing legislation that enshrines punishments of up to three years in prison, a decision journalists say is designed to crack down on dissent.

Militants in an explosive-laden vehicle were thwarted in their attempt to overrun a Pakistani security post near the border with Afghanistan, the army said yesterday.

Sri Lanka has revoked a power purchase agreement with Indian conglomerate Adani Group following allegations of corruption, energy ministry sources in Colombo said on Friday..President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's administration opened probes into the company's local projects after billionair

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan called off reconciliatory talks with the government yesterday, a week after a court handed him a 14-year jail term on graft charges, his party’s chairman said.

A winter drought is ravaging crops in Pakistan’s breadbasket, farmers said yesterday, with the region parched by a 40 percent drop in rainfall.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 14 years’ imprisonment in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.

The first Bangladeshi all-women winter expedition to Nepal's Langtang region concluded on January 11, marking a significant step for gender equality in adventure sports.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan yesterday, as she attended a summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world that has been snubbed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

Three soldiers and 19 militants were killed in the latest clashes in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region, the military said Tuesday.

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said yesterday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes.