A storm off India's west coast has strengthened to become a powerful cyclone and could hit India's western state of Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan this week, the weather department said..The cyclone, named Biparjoy, is expected to make landfall on Thursday afternoon between Mandvi

At least 25 people were killed and over 140 injured as a heavy downpour, strong winds and thunderstorms lashed the southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, toppling walls, uprooting trees and pylons, leaving many areas without power

An explosion took place inside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least eleven people during the funeral of the Taliban's provincial deputy governor who died in an attack earlier this week, officials said

Myanmar lawyers defending political detainees in junta-run courts are being harassed and even jailed by military authorities, Human Rights Watch said today, warning that intimidation was forcing many to stop taking cases

Coverage of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has disappeared from all mainstream news channels in the country after the media regulator asked networks to block out people involved in rioting last month, a Reuters survey showed on Monday.

Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said yesterday.

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Pakistan’s Lahore today extended PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s bail in three cases linked to May 9 violence, including the vandalism of Jinnah House and Askari Tower..At least eight people were killed and as many as 290 were injured on May 9 after the PTI chief

Report flags high volumes of the drug heading into Bangladesh, India

The president of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s party was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore yesterday on charges of corruption, a government official said.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today said the fencing of India’s border with Myanmar needs to be completed for a permanent solution to the cross-boundary issues..There are fears that the porous border is being used for drug smuggling and for movement of militants, Shah told reporters in Im

Nepal today got India’s green signal for selling power to Bangladesh using the Indian transmission line..The trilateral arrangement was agreed to by India for the first time, giving a boost to sub-regional cooperation in opening up power trade, reports our New Delhi correspondent..Th

The bail for Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been extended until June 19 in the Al Qadir Trust graft case, his lawyer said yesterday.

An Islamabad accountability court today granted PTI Chairman Imran Khan bail in the Al-Qadir Trust case till June 19 against surety bonds worth Rs 500,000..The PTI chief arrived at the Federal Judicial Complex shortly after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) directed him to approach a relevant

A joint investigation team (JIT) of Pakistan probing the attack on Lahore Corps Commander House (Jinnah House) on May 9 has summoned PTI Chairman Imran Khan today..Khan has been asked to appear before the JIT at 4:00 pm at the Qilla Gujjar police headquarters..He has been called for

Nonagenarian Kanchha Sherpa is the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first humans to summit the world's highest mountain

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake — with its epicentre being the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region — jolted parts of Pakistan on Sunday morning, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case on May 9 and subsequent violent protests, during which unruly supporters and workers stormed and torched state installations almost across the country, unleashed a mass exodus of leaders from the former ruling party.

Thirty-three supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan have been handed over to the army to face trial in military courts on charges of attacking armed forces’ installations, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said yesterday.

Former lawmaker of the Netherlands Harry van Bommel yesterday urged Pakistan to formally declare the atrocities it committed during the Liberation War as genocide.

A 14-member delegation from Myanmar arrived in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar this morning to discuss Rohingya repatriation issues.