Pakistan’s government and the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan held talks yesterday over planned protests by his supporters that threaten to bring Islamabad to a standstill.

A total of 3,685 forensic samples are undergoing DNA testing, including more than 1,300 collected from recovered bodies

The United Nations yesterday said airstrikes killed at least 10 civilians in Afghanistan, mostly children, after Pakistan said it targeted militants.

Japan toughened requirements for foreigners wanting to obtain permanent residency, as part of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push to tighten immigration controls.

Malaysia's 101-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for observation, his aide told AFP, following the death on Monday of his wife of seven decades

Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Thursday that Pakistani airstrikes on several provinces killed four civilians, days after another deadly bombardment and a militant attack in Pakistan.

Pakistan's minister of information said its forces had struck 10 targets in Afghanistan

Pakistani bombardment has killed three civilians in eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban authorities said yesterday, with Islamabad saying its forces had targeted “terrorist hubs” along the border.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s party said yesterday that his three sisters had been arrested ahead of the party’s scheduled protests September 27.

The massive August 26 flood in Nepal has thrown the tiny forensic lab in the Himalayan country into the centre of global attention

The death toll from an explosion and gun attack at a police headquarters in northern Pakistan rose to at least 31, including 16 police personnel, a senior police official told AFP yesterday, with fighting ongoing.

Pakistan’s military spokesman said his country will “go to any extent” to defend ally Saudi Arabia, as the kingdom comes under increased attack from Yemen’s Houthi forces.

At least 16 people were killed and 57 wounded after a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into a police facility in northwest Pakistan yesterday as officers and their families were praying in a mosque inside, officials said.

1991 agreement requires both countries' naval vessels to stay at least three nautical miles apart

The August 26 catastrophe, a tsunami-like flood that began on the China-Nepal border, killed more than 1,400 people and left some 5,600 missing

Rescuers pulled two survivors from a tunnel linked to a hydropower station on Nepal’s Trishuli River yesterday, nine days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through its valley, killing at least 1,325 people and leaving over 5,500 missing.

In the first four months of early recovery, the estimated cost to build roads and temporary shelters, provide drinking water and restore power would be around $52.6 million

The messaging group, set up by engineers before the flood, has become a valuable tool alongside helicopters and heavy machinery in the race to find survivors

Myanmar yesterday pledged “safe and dignified” returns for its citizens displaced abroad, after the United Nations and rights groups raised concerns about the upcoming repatriation of 1,500 people from Malaysia.

In November 2025, Nepal and Bangladesh agreed to increase electricity exports by 20 MW under their existing 40 MW deal