Women working in Afghan government departments must cover up -- even with a blanket if necessary -- or they may lose their jobs, the Taliban’s religious police said yesterday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday he would like to have a televised debate with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to resolve differences between the two neighbours.

The United Nations children’s agency would pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organisation said, with salaries unpaid for months as the country is plunged into economic crisis due to sanctions on the Taliban administration.

Pakistan’s government has introduced a new cybercrime law that could see social media users jailed for up to five years for posting “fake news” about the military, judiciary or public officials.

India’s home minister said he favoured students wearing uniforms in school rather than any religious attire, but that his position might change

The Taliban are creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, the official tasked with overseeing the military’s transformation said yesterday.

Myanmar’s military government has criticised calls for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ special envoy to the conflict-torn country to meet bodies that oppose last year’s coup, which the junta has declared as “terrorist” groups.

A special court in India today sentenced senior opposition politician and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years in jail and slapped on him a fine of Rs 60 lakh in connection with the Rs 139 crore fodder scam in which a government treasury was allegedly embezzled.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla today said his country and Bangladesh “are working on finalising agreements on rivers other than the Ganges water-sharing and exchanging best practices in areas of river embankments and addressing salinity of rivers”.

The Myanmar junta has rejected a regional special envoy's request to meet with a group of ousted lawmakers - which it had branded a terrorist group - amid attempts to break a year-long political stalemate since the coup.

Myanmar's junta is set to replace Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN's top court Monday as it seeks to dismiss a case over the alleged genocide of Rohingya Muslims.

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said another former premier, Najib Razak, must be stopped as he is "not one bit remorseful" after his court convictions over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fund scandal.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday admitted that the government made a mistake by allowing PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for medical treatment.

Sri Lanka’s state-run petroleum company has run out of cash to buy oil, and fuel shortages across the country could get worse, the energy minister said yesterday. 

Myanmar’s military junta is to take part in hearings at the top United Nations court in The Hague next week despite a complaint from political opponents that this could give it international recognition without legal standing. 

An Indian court sentenced 38 people to death yesterday over a string of bomb blasts in 2008 that killed dozens in the city of Ahmedabad, in one of the country’s biggest mass death sentences. 

India has complained to Singapore about a remark its prime minister made on the number of Indian parliamentarians facing criminal charges, an Indian official said yesterday, in a rare instance of friction between the Asian allies. 

Sri Lanka’s High Court yesterday acquitted two top officials accused of “crimes against humanity” for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. 

Hong Kong parents rushed children as young as 3 years old to vaccination centres this week as the government lowered the age limit for the shots and the deaths of two toddlers exacerbated concerns in a city struggling to cope with a Covid-19 surge.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over an Indian girl, who was detained by Tentulia police yesterday near the border for trespassing into Bangladesh, after a company commander-level flag meeting with India's Border Security force (BSF) this afternoon.