A bomb blast ripped through a crowded market in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing three people and wounding over 20, police said.

The Taliban’s prime minister yesterday called on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise their government, as aid-dependent Afghanistan faces economic collapse. 

Housewife Maira Tayyab has considered begging for money to feed her family in inflation-hit Pakistan, while shop owner Mohammad Hanif finds his thoughts turning to crime.

Unresolved differences about engagement with Myanmar’s military rulers are causing discord among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), diplomats and government officials said, as a ministers’ meeting set for this week was pushed back.

Representatives of Myanmar’s junta are expected to challenge the jurisdiction of the World Court to hear allegations the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority in a fresh round of hearings from Feb 21, the attorney general of Gambia, which brought the case, told Reuters on Friday.

Myanmar junta has ordered all military personnel not to answer letters related to arrest warrants or summons from the International Criminal Court (ICC) or the Argentinian judiciary on the human rights violations of the Rohingya and other communities.

Two brothers, who were separated during the India-Pakistan Partition in 1947 were reunited after 74 years in Kartarpur Corridor in Pakistan, NDTV reported citing local media on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed fears on Tuesday that the government would have to go to the Interna­tional Monetary Fund (IMF) again if the country’s exports did not increase sharply.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said the Narendra Modi-led government was “a real and present threat to peace” in the region, adding that all minorities in India were at the target of extremist groups operating under the patronage of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday. 

At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by tens of thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall, authorities said Saturday.

The Taliban yesterday appealed for emergency humanitarian aid without “political bias”, saying recent snow and flooding had worsened the plight of the Afghan people. 

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday met Myanmar’s military ruler Min Aung Hlaing amid criticism of the first visit by a head of government since the army seized power from an elected government last year. 

India today ruled out the possibility of holding the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, saying “there is still no consensus that would permit holding of the summit”.

Attacked by goons, as she claims, Reham Khan, activist and former wife of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, has slammed him over the country’s law and order situation.

Firing of lethal and non-lethal weapons by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border has remained consistent during the period from 2015 to 2021, The Indian Express reported today quoting latest Indian Home Ministry data.

A team of Afghan intelligence agents poured around 3,000 liters of liquor into a canal in Kabul, the country’s spy agency said on Sunday, as the new Taliban authorities crack down on the sale of alcohol.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that sexual offences have risen sharply in the country.

Sri Lanka’s food prices rose by a record 22.1 percent in December, official figures showed yesterday, as the country struggles to finance urgent imports to tackle an acute shortage of essentials.

Bangladesh and India have resumed monitoring the water level of the Ganges and Padma rivers at different points under the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty 1996.