The Taliban authorities yesterday ordered a nationwide ban on university education for females, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush Afghan women’s right to education and freedom.

All 33 suspected militant prisoners who seized a Pakistan police station over the weekend were killed and their hostages freed in a clearance operation by special forces today, the defence minister said.

Pakistani security forces retook a counter-terrorism interrogation centre on Tuesday two days after it was seized by Islamist militants, security sources said, adding that all hostages, some slightly wounded, had been rescued.

A junta court will hear the final arguments in the 18-month-long trial of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi next week, a legal source said Tuesday, before reaching its final verdicts against the Nobel laureate..Suu Kyi has been a prisoner since the military toppled her government in February 2021

Indicating it is closely following reports that militants have seized control of a counterterrorism centre in Bannu, the United States on Monday offered unconditional support to Pakistan in its battle against the TTP and similar groups, saying that defeating terrorism was a shared goal of both countries.

Three sailors from the capsized Thai navy ship HTMS Sukhothai have been found alive early Tuesday morning, according to a Twitter post by media outlet Khaosod English. That leaves 28 sailors still missing.

At least 13 people were injured in a blast near the Umar Farooq Chowk in Balochistan's Khuzdar district in Pakistan last night, police officials said.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday won a confidence vote in parliament, cementing his mandate a month after an inconclusive election result forced him to ally with the graft-tainted party of his former political rivals.

Thai military frigates and helicopters were yesterday searching for 31 sailors after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others having been hauled from choppy waters.

China reported its first Covid-related deaths in weeks yesterday amid rising doubts over whether the official count was capturing the full toll of a disease that is ripping through cities after the government relaxed strict anti-virus controls.

Pakistani authorities yesterday opened talks to try to resolve a stand-off with Islamist militants who were holding several security personnel hostage after seizing control of a counter-terrorism facility in the country’s northwest a day earlier.

More than 30 Pakistan Taliban militants were holding several officers hostage on Monday after breaking free from custody and seizing a police station, officials said.

Thai military frigates and helicopters were on Monday searching for 31 sailors after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others having been hauled from choppy waters.

North Korea's state media KCNA said on Monday the country conducted an "important, final phase" test on Sunday for the development of a spy satellite, which it seeks to complete by April 2023.

Following repeated appeals of the distressed Rohingyas to save their lives, Sri Lankan Navy yesterday rescued 104 Myanmar nationals, who have been adrift in the Andaman Sea for about two weeks with little or no food and water.

China, which chairs a high-stakes UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, was due to present a long-awaited compromise text yesterday in an attempt to seal the “peace pact with nature” that the planet sorely needs.

Four Pakistani police officers were killed and another four critically wounded yesterday when suspected militants attacked a police station in the country’s volatile northwest, police said.

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan’s high-altitude Salang pass, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said yesterday.

Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet yesterday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in Covid-19 cases that has hit urban centres from north to south.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said the government has been monitoring the use of Myanmar mobile network in Rohingya refugee camps and formed a committee to discourage it.