Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly yesterday, with 180 lawmakers reposing “full confidence” in his leadership as the premier.

US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea it would face a nuclear response and the “end” of the leadership there if Pyongyang uses its own arsenal.

Defence Ministers of India and China today held talks in New Delhi as the two leaders had “frank” discussions about the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly on Thursday, with 180 lawmakers reposing "full confidence" in his leadership as the premier

Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Asim Munir, who is in China on a four-day official visit, called on the commander of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) yesterday.

China yesterday slammed a speech by Britain’s foreign secretary that warned Beijing against any attack on Taiwan and raised human rights concerns, accusing London of “clinging to the past”.

India has hosted a closed-door dialogue on Myanmar where participants called for reduction of violence by all sides in the country.

Singapore hanged a prisoner yesterday after he was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, despite rights groups decrying “many flaws” in the case.

Exhausted, elated and cradling her newborn daughter in a rundown government hospital, young mother Manu Bala had just helped make India the world’s most populous nation.

Ten police and their driver were killed in India’s central Chhattisgarh state yesterday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, an attack police blamed on Maoist rebels.

China is pushing ahead with the largest-ever expansion of its nuclear arsenal, modernising the atomic deterrent with an eye on any future conflicts with the United States, experts say.

A Gujarat High Court judge today recused herself from hearing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s appeal against the order of the Surat sessions court which refused to stay his conviction in a four-year-old criminal defamation case, Rahul’s lawyer said

Government and think-tank representatives from Myanmar and its neighbours, including India and China, held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a secretive effort to de-escalate a bloody crisis in the army-run Southeast Asian nation, two sources said

Ten police and a civilian were killed in India's central Chhattisgarh state today when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, an attack police blamed on Maoist rebels

Singapore hanged a prisoner on Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, despite rights groups decrying "many flaws" in the case..Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged in defiance of a plea by the United Nations Human Rights Office for Singapore to "urgentl

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday appealed to the High Court in the western state of Gujarat seeking a stay of conviction in a defamation case, challenging a lower court’s ruling against his plea, his lawyer said.

The United Nations Human Rights Office pressed Singapore yesterday to “urgently reconsider” its scheduled execution of a man over one kilogram of cannabis.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday the country supports the development of industrial uses of generative artificial intelligence technologies such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Two explosions in a counter-terrorism ammunition depot in northwest Pakistan killed at least 13 people and wounded over 50 on Monday, police said

At least 12 people, mostly policemen, were killed by multiple explosions caused by a fire in a munitions cache in a Pakistan police station on Monday, officials said