Pakistan yesterday welcomed an offer by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to ease tensions with nuclear-armed rival India over ongoing unrest in Kashmir, which both claim as their own.

Pakistan has banned all Indian content on television and radio networks, media regulators said yesterday, its latest salvo after recent scuffles in the disputed Kashmir region spilled into the world of Bollywood and celebrity.

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday issued notice to Nawaz Sharif and his family members in the ' Panama Papers' leaks case, acting on petitions seeking his disqualification over alleged corruption and illegally possessing assets abroad.

Pakistan will ban all Indian content on television and radio channels from Friday, its media regulator says, stepping up media tit-for-tat bans that followed a spike in tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Accusing politicians of causing a great harm to the country, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak recently endorses Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s statement that Islamabad’s roads were probably being built through revenue earned from Chittagong’s jute fields.

Wily Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah wishes a Test face off with magician Indian offie Ravichandaran Ashwin in a battle of two fast wicket-taking spinners.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged BRICS leaders yesterday to take a strong united stand against the "mothership of terrorism" in the South Asian region, in a thinly veiled reference to Pakistan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brands Pakistan a "mother-ship of terrorism" at a summit of the BRICS nations, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian arch-rival.

Expressing warmth and lauding the strong ties between the two countries, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the BRICS summit with a tweet in Bangla.

President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow on a two-day visit.

Pakistan's government has imposed a travel ban on a leading journalist after he sparked an uproar by reporting that civilian officials had

Myanmar's border guard yesterday buried nine officers killed in mysterious raids in the western state of Rakhine, as the military tightened control over a region long scarred by violence between Buddhists and Muslims.

Pakistan's National Assembly yesterday passed legislation closing a loophole that allowed people who killed in the name of "honour" to go free, mandating life imprisonment even if the victim's relatives forgive the murder.

Pakistan's media regulator has launched a crackdown on companies airing Indian television channels and content, officials said yesterday, after an escalation of violence in the disputed Kashmir region between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

The Indian army says that its soldiers foiled an attack on an army camp and killed three suspected rebels in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Even as his government continued to insist that India had not conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hit out at India for its 'aggression'.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says Bangladesh will stay beside India if the neighbouring country is attacked following the ongoing tension with Pakistan.

Indian police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national counter-terrorism agency says.

Regretting that the regional environment is “not conducive” to host the 19th Saarc Summit, current chair of the regional grouping Nepal says member states must ensure their territories are not used for cross-border terrorism.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has offered to act as mediator between India and Pakistan to defuse rising tensions over disputed Kashmir. The offer comes after Pakistan's ambassador meets with the UN chief and urges him to personally intervene, while India says it does not want to aggravate the situation.