At least two people in Sri Lanka died while waiting in long queues for fuel, officials said yesterday, as widespread shortages cause misery and hardship across the island nation.

The Pakistani government will petition the Supreme Court to seek a ruling on whether defectors from Prime Minister Imran Khan's party could lose their seats ahead of a no-confidence vote against him, his interior minister said on Friday.

The UN Security Council yesterday voted to establish formal ties with Taliban-run Afghanistan, which has yet to win widespread international recognition.

India today announced a USD one billion line of credit to Sri Lanka to help the island nation tide over an acute financial crisis.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is in danger of losing his coalition partners in a no-confidence vote sought by the opposition, a key ally has said, flagging a “tilt” by his partners in government towards their opponents.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine must not make the world forget Afghanistan, the UN refugee chief said late on Tuesday, warning that ignoring its humanitarian needs could be very risky.

A huge crowd tried to storm the Sri Lankan president’s seaside office yesterday as anger flared over runaway prices brought about by the worst financial crisis in the island’s modern history.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Faisal Javed Khan said on Monday that the voting on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran will take place after March 27.

Pakistan on Saturday demanded a joint probe into a missile India said it accidentally fired into its territory, rejecting New Delhi's decision to hold an internal inquiry into the incident and calling on the international community to play a role.

India’s counter-terror body National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested six persons who were allegedly part of a gang involved in illegal trafficking of Rohingyas from Bangladesh into Indian territory.

India today said it has ordered a high-level inquiry into an “accidental firing” of a missile which landed in Pakistani territory.

In what appeared to be a direct threat to the opposition that submitted a no-confidence resolution against Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in the country’s National Assembly a day earlier, the PM yesterday thundered that he had been waiting for this day, claiming confidently that the “definite failure” of the move and regaining of parliament’s confidence will help him “grab the thieves by their necks” and go after them once this “battle of nerves” is over.

Six Bangladeshi fishermen returned home from Myanmar today 37 days after their detention in the neighbouring country.

A delegation of senior opposition lawmakers submitted a no-confidence motion against Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan with the National Assembly Secretariat today (March 8, 2022), PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said.

At least 100 new species -- from monkeys to mussels -- were found in Myanmar in a decade, according to conservationists who said discoveries during the country’s fleeting period of openness revealed “astonishing biodiversity”.

The death toll from a suicide attack at a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan rose to 62 overnight as police yesterday said they would try to identify the bomber from two severed feet found at the scene.

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile yesterday, Seoul’s military said, continuing this year’s record-breaking blitz of weapons tests with a launch just days before South Korea’s presidential election.

Officials vowed Saturday to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack in Pakistan a day earlier claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. The assault killed 63 people and wounded nearly 200.

The Islamic State says a lone Afghan suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people.

At least 56 people were killed and 194 wounded yesterday by a suicide bomb at a Shia mosque in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, the deadliest attack in the country since 2018.