Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is expected today to address thousands of supporters at his first public appearance since being shot earlier this month in an assassination attempt he blamed on his successor.

The Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks and gyms as well as schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity, a group of UN experts said Friday.

More than a dozen Afghan women protested briefly in Kabul yesterday, calling for their rights to be recognised on the eve of the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

After weeks of intense speculation and rumours, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday chose Lt Gen Asim Munir as the new chief of army staff (COAS).

In his final public address as Pakistan's army chief, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa yesterday said the 1971 war with Bangladesh was a political failure of Pakistan and not a military one.

The Taliban-led Supreme Court in Afghanistan on Wednesday said fourteen people had been lashed at a football stadium in the east of the country.

India has reiterated its commitment to continue with the developmental projects in Rakhine area of Myanmar and border area for the benefit of the people of that country.

A Bangladeshi fisherman was injured as Myanmar's border guards opened fire at the Teknaf border of Cox's Bazar Monday, local authorities said.

At least 20 people were killed, including 11 children, when a minibus crashed into a deep and water-logged ditch in southern Pakistan, police said yesterday.

A Pakistan court has said the intelligence reports had revealed that there were fears of an attack on former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, adding that “the government and the state have the responsibility to look into this aspect.”

A Bangladesh national suffered serious injuries in a mine blast on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Fultoli in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban early yesterday.

Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan sought a report from the provincial police chief after a police mobile patrol came under gunfire in Lakki Marwat on Wednesday morning.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the European Union should expand its cooperation with Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN), saying it was crucial to deepen ties in the face of the war in Ukraine, addressing a meeting of business leaders in Singapore on Monday.

Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, told DW in an exclusive interview that the government in Islamabad was trying to kill him because he threatens its grip on power.

Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan told supporters via video-link yesterday that they should keep up an anti-government march, a week after he suffered wounds in a gun attack, and he dismissed a police report that a lone shooter tried to kill him.

The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital’s public parks and funfairs, just months after ordering access to be

Afghan women were stopped from entering amusement parks in Kabul on Wednesday after the Taliban's morality ministry said there would be restrictions on women being able to access public parks.

Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blocked roads near the capital yesterday, disrupting traffic and forcing schools to close, as they protested against a bid to assassinate their leader at a recent anti-government rally.

The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

After Pakistan Supreme Court warned that it would initiate suo motu proceedings if the Punjab police failed to register an FIR regarding the assassination attempt on former prime minister Imran Khan, the provincial police finally registered the case under terrorism charges, with detained suspect Naveed being nominated as the prime accused.