At least 132 people were killed in an overnight earthquake that struck a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said Saturday, as security forces rushed to assist with rescue efforts

Bhutan said yesterday it would stage only the fourth general election in its history in January, with the incoming prime minister expected to prioritise happiness on par with the economy.

A bomb blast targeting a Pakistan police van in northwestern Pakistan yesterday killed five civilians and wounded 21 people, officials said.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal last night at 23:47 (local time), according to its National Seismological Centre.

Pakistan will hold delayed national elections on February 8 next year, the electoral commission said yesterday, as the country grapples with overlapping political, economic and security crises.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday urged the world to “stop the madness” of climate change as he visited Himalayan regions struggling from rapidly melting glaciers to witness the devastating impact of the phenomenon.

Sri Lanka has granted 48 hours for a Chinese vessel to conduct marine research off the island’s west coast under supervision, the foreign ministry said yesterday, despite Indian concerns that it could be a spy ship.

The Maldives has started negotiations with India to remove its military presence, President-elect Mohamed Muizzu said in an interview published by Bloomberg News yesterday, as New Delhi and Beijing both vie for influence in the region.

A Pakistani court yesterday declined bail to detained former prime minister Imran Khan in a case in which he has been indicted on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said.

A Pakistani court indicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his deputy in an Official Secrets Act case yesterday, his party said, in another blow for the jailed former cricket star ahead of a general election expected in January.

Pakistan’s three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home yesterday from four years of self-imposed exile in London, aiming to kick start his party’s campaign for next year’s election and targeting former premier Imran Khan as the biggest rival.

A Pakistan court granted bail yesterday to former prime minister and graft convict Nawaz Sharif, removing the threat of arrest when he returns to the country from self-imposed exile this weekend.

A shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the latest to hit a region where entire villages have been flattened and over 1,000 killed by a series of tremors this month

Gunmen killed six labourers in an overnight raid in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said yesterday, in the region’s latest bout of violence.

Afghanistan's disaster management ministry on Friday revised downward the death toll from multiple earthquakes to around 1,000 from an earlier figure of over 2,400, a spokesman said

At least seven people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide blast tore through a minority Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan today, the Taliban government said.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said he is “stronger and fitter than ever” since being jailed two months ago, according to a statement released by his family yesterday.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday, hitting an area where more than 2,000 people were killed after a series of similar tremors on the weekend

A Pakistan's special court formed under the Official Secrets Act on Monday decided to indict former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case on October 17

The Supreme Court in military-ruled Myanmar has rejected appeals against six corruption convictions for the jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to media reports.