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12 die in munitions blasts at Pakistan police station
At least 12 people, mostly policemen, were killed by multiple explosions caused by a fire in a munitions cache in a Pakistan police station on Monday, officials said
24 April 2023, 18:50 PM
Blasts kill 8 in Pakistan
Two explosions rocked a counter-terrorism office in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing at least eight people, police said.
24 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Memories of Punjab separatism and the rise of Amritpal
When Sikh separatist preacher Amritpal Singh was finally apprehended outside a Guruwara in Rode village in north Indian state Punjab's Moga district this morning, the contrived symbolism of the place could not be lost sight of
23 April 2023, 07:43 AM
Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh arrested from Punjab
After being on the run for just over a month, wanted radical Sikh separatist preacher Amritpal Singh was arrested today from north Indian state Punjab's Moga district, police said
23 April 2023, 05:23 AM
Pakistan foreign minister to visit India for Shanghai group meet
Pakistan's foreign minister will attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in India next month, his ministry said today, in what will be the first visit by a top Pakistani government official to India in nearly a decade.
20 April 2023, 08:16 AM
Pak SC warns govt of ‘serious consequences’
Pakistan’s Supreme Court (SC) yesterday warned the government of “serious consequences” if it failed to release the funds required for conducting polls in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
19 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Pak govt, judiciary in new standoff
Pakistan’s government yesterday rejected a panel set up and headed by the chief justice that is due to rule on a draft law clipping his powers, claiming conflict of interest, the latest standoff amid months of economic and political turmoil.
13 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Three Nepali climbers missing on Everest
A search was underway for three Nepali climbers who fell into a crevasse while ascending Everest yesterday, the first such accident on the world’s highest mountain this climbing season.
12 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Agartala-Akhaura rail link likely to be opened by year-end: Indian minister
"We are expecting this project to be inaugurated by the end of this year and in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina," he told media at Nischintapur
12 April 2023, 06:47 AM
4 cops killed by militants in Pakistan
Four policemen were killed yesterday in a gunbattle with militants in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, police said, hours after four people died in a bomb blast in the region’s capital.
11 April 2023, 18:00 PM
PM of Pakistan-administered Kashmir sacked by court
Pakistan administered Kashmir's Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas was sacked from his office by a court today in a contempt case, the court order said..Ilyas comes from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been locked in a political wrangl
11 April 2023, 10:42 AM
Four killed in blast targeting police vehicle
Four people were killed and fifteen injured in a bombing targeting a police vehicle in a marketplace in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta yesterday, a hospital official said.
10 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Imran Khan's PTI issues scathing white paper on PDM's rule
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf launched a white paper on Sunday to mark the first year of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)
10 April 2023, 06:52 AM
Pakistan finance minister cancels US trip to IMF, World Bank meetings
Pakistan's finance minister has cancelled a visit to Washington for spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, government officials said today, citing domestic political turmoil as the reason..Minister Ishaq Dar was scheduled to attend the meetings from April
7 April 2023, 09:20 AM
Pak parliament rejects SC order
Pakistan’s parliament yesterday rejected a Supreme Court order to conduct provincial snap polls, in the latest move in a power struggle between the government and the top court amid political and economic instability.
6 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Taliban signals UN female ban
The United Nations told some 3,300 Afghan staff not to come to work in Afghanistan for the next two days after the Taliban authorities signalled on Tuesday that they would enforce a ban on Afghan women working for the world body.
5 April 2023, 18:00 PM
India, Bhutan express commitment on trilateral cooperation in hydropower sector with Bangladesh
"On the proposed trilateral hydropower cooperation among Bhutan, Bangladesh and India, both sides (India and Bhutan) expressed their commitment towards greater sub-regional cooperation, including in the energy sector which would lead to increased inter-linkages between the economies for mutual benefit of all stakeholders"
5 April 2023, 07:44 AM
UN says Afghan women staff banned from work by Taliban
After the Taliban signaled the ban on Tuesday, the UN told nearly 3,300 of its staff members in Afghanistan not to come to work for the next 48 hours
5 April 2023, 06:48 AM
Nepal gets new finance minister
Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday named centrist politician and economic expert Prakash Sharan Mahat as finance minister, a presidential statement said, as the country tackles falling revenue collection and high interest rates.
1 April 2023, 18:00 PM
New law to curtail CJ’s powers passed
Pakistan’s parliament has passed a new law to curtail the powers of the Supreme Court’s chief justice, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said yesterday, a move
31 March 2023, 18:00 PM