Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life

The Taliban leader in a new verbal decree banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported yesterday.

Sri Lanka's parliament approved a domestic debt restructuring plan on Saturday that is crucial to continue a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

India’s Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane met Myanmar’s senior leadership, including the defence minister, and discussed a number of issues including maintenance of tranquillity in border areas, illegal trans-border movement, drug trafficking, and smuggling

Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said today, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics

Pakistan’s army has sacked three senior officers, including a lieutenant general, for failing to avert last month’s violent attacks on military assets by former prime minister Imran Khan’s supporters to protest his arrest, the army’s spokesperson said yesterday.

Two Pakistanis were killed today while one was "critically injured" as the Indian Army opened fire at a group of shepherds at the Line of Control, the Pakistan army's media relations wing said

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has quit the ruling party, he said late Wednesday, amid a deepening rift within the government ahead of September presidential elections.

Education officials in Muslim-majority Pakistan have withdrawn an order that banned university students from celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi after the original notice sparked outrage on social media.

A Lahore anti-terrorism court in Pakistan today issued non-bailable arrest warrants for PTI chief Imran Khan and several other former and current party leaders

Bhutan will lower the nightly fees it charges tourists who stay more than four days, in an attempt to boost visitor numbers that are still a fraction of the level before the Covid-19 pandemic

The death toll in Nepal from weekend floods and landslides rose to six, officials said yesterday, as rescuers continue to search for 28 missing people.

As hundreds of Pakistanis are feared dead in a boat tragedy off the coast of Greece, a report in a UK newspaper claimed that Pakistani nationals were forced to stay below the deck by the crew which maltreated them during the journey

Cyclone Biparjoy slammed into the Indian coast with powerful winds, sowing fear and prompting evacuations, but began weakening in the early hours of today as it moved north

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.