The suicide bomber who killed more than 80 police officers at a mosque inside a sensitive compound earlier this week entered wearing a uniform and helmet, a provincial police chief said yesterday.

As Indian tycoon Gautam Adani's woes deepen and force him to drop a share sale, foreign investors and Indian regulators are abandoning any pretence that the conglomerate's troubles are contained and domestic markets will be spared contagion.

The crisis around Indian tycoon Gautam Adani deepened today with the total loss of value to his indebted empire topping $100 billion after it abruptly cancelled a stock sale.

Police chief of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said today that the police was "closing in" on the terror network behind the suicide attack on a mosque in the Peshawar Police Lines area, revealing that the "bomber was clad in a police uniform".

Shares in Indian tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate plunged again on Wednesday as a rout in his companies deepened to $86 billion in the wake of a U.S. short-seller report, with the billionaire also losing his title as Asia's richest person.

Inflation has risen to a 48-year high in crisis-hit Pakistan, where the International Monetary Fund is visiting for urgent talks, according to data released on Wednesday by the country's statistics bureau.

Distraught relatives yesterday thronged hospitals in Pakistan’s Peshawar to look for their kin a day after a suicide bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing 100 people, mostly policemen.

Forty-nine children died when their overloaded boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, police said Tuesday after divers spent three days dragging bodies from freezing waters.

Distraught relatives thronged hospitals in Pakistan's Peshawar on Tuesday to look for their kin a day after a suicide bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing 100 people, mostly policemen.

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in Pakistan yesterday, killing over 61 people, most of them police.

Police officers were among at least 47 killed and 150 wounded in a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistan police headquarters on Monday, prompting the government to put the country on high alert.

At least 41 people were killed after a passenger coach fell into a ravine at Lasbela district in Pakistan's Balochistan province this morning, according to officials.

The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to restrict women from tertiary education.

At least 166 people have died in a wave of bitterly cold weather sweeping Afghanistan, an official said Saturday, as extreme conditions heaped misery on the poverty-stricken nation.

Nepal’s top court yesterday barred combative deputy prime minister Rabi Lamichhane from office for failing to regain citizenship in the Himalayan republic after giving up his US passport.

The IMF will send a team to Pakistan next week to discuss reviving a desperately needed bailout programme, with a foreign exchange crisis bringing imports almost to a standstill.

India has issued a notice to Pakistan for modification of a 62-year-old World Bank-brokered treaty on the cross-border Indus river waters following Islamabad's "intransigence" on its implementation, official sources said today.

An aide to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Wednesday for criticising election officials, police said, the

India has invited Pakistan's foreign minister to a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) that it is hosting in May, Indian media reported on Wednesday, signalling a possible thaw in relations between the nuclear-armed rivals.

At least 15 people were injured when a bomb blast derailed a passenger train in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan yesterday, a government official said.