Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan said he was "quietly confident" of victory in a general election this month and that as prime minister, he would drive an anti-corruption and anti-poverty campaign in the south Asian nation.

Sri Lanka is looking for an executioner to fill the vacant position of state hangman, prison officials said yesterday, after President Maithripala Sirisena ended the island's moratorium on capital punishment.

A suicide bomber kills 85 people at an election rally in southwestern Pakistan in the second election-related attack, officials say, amid growing tensions over ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return ahead of the July 25 vote.

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam are arrested after flying back to the country to face lengthy prison sentences, in a high-stakes gamble to galvanise their beleaguered party ahead of a July 25 election.

Sri Lanka announced yesterday it would start hanging drug criminals, ending a near-half century moratorium on capital punishment as

The United States says it is tightening the distribution of visas to Myanmar and Laos after both countries refused to accept their citizens deported from the country.

Troops shot dead three stone-throwing protesters including a 16-year-old girl in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday, as tensions rose ahead of the anniversary of the death of a rebel commander.

Maryam Nawaz Sharif, daughter of Pakistan's ex prime minister Nawaz Sharif, yesterday told reporters that she and her father would return to Pakistan within 10 days to appeal against a court verdict that gave Sharif 10 years behind bar.

India will further smoothen the process of granting visa for foreigners and is implementing the Immigration Visa Foreigners’ Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) in a mission mode for their safety and convenience, the country's Home Minister Rajnath Singh says.

A Pakistani court sentences ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison over his family's purchase of upscale London flats in a major blow to his party ahead of a general election in July.

The Pakistani opposition party led by former cricket star Imran Khan is gaining ground in opinion polls ahead of a July 25 general election, with one survey showing it pulling ahead of the ruling party and another showing it only slightly behind.

Turkey will sell four corvette ships to Pakistan's navy, Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu

Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have fled from neighbouring Myanmar.

The Indian High Court bestows the status of "legal person or entity" to animals in northern state of Uttarakhand saying "they have a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person."

Malaysia wants to deport the undocumented migrants detained in the ongoing crackdown which includes almost 250 Bangladeshis.

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB, while also ruthlessly muzzling critics, according to current and former government officials.

As India braces for state-level and fresh parliamentary elections in the coming months, the country's Election Commission has launched an Android-based app to report any irregularity during the democratic exercise.

The transit camp in Myanmar's Rakhine state stands ready to welcome back 150 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh every day.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is going to streamline the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme and develop its security software for implementation across the region.

Six people have been killed in a landslide in Phakant, Myanmar's Kachin state that hit the staff quarters of the Township Development Affairs Committee, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reports.