Twin roadside blasts killed at least seven people in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Saturday.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants killed six paramilitary personnel and abducted eight others during an attack on a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, security officials said yesterday.

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is worried about its declining population and has announced cash incentives to families to produce more children.

Pakistan has previously said it would consider any attempt to change the flow of cross-border waterways an ‘act of war’

A bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan yesterday, officials said, in the latest major attack claimed by separatist militants.

Peace mediator Pakistan has shared with the United States a revised proposal from Iran to end the war in the Middle East, a Pakistani source told Reuters yesterday, warning that the sides “don’t have much time” to narrow their differences.

Four years after Imran Khan’s ouster as prime minister of Pakistan, a leaked classified diplomatic cable published by US‑based investigative agency Drop Site now points to possible US involvement.

Reuters ⁠could not immediately ⁠verify ​the ​report

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 277 passengers and 11 crew members caught fire while landing at Kathmandu airport Monday, but no one was hurt in the accident.

Militants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 15 and wounding three, officials said yesterday.

Militants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 12 and wounding five, officials said on Sunday

Pakistan Finance Minister Aurangzeb says economy was showing signs of recovery, including rising exports and remittances, despite the war in Iran

Swearing-in ceremony scheduled for tomorrow in Kolkata 

Sri Lanka raised fuel prices by nearly four percent on Sunday, further fuelling inflation, which more than doubled last month due to the Middle East war.

About 40 militants on motorcycles and other vehicles stormed the mining project site of Pakistani company National Resources Private Limited (NRL) in the Darigwan area of Chagai district on Wednesday

Senior Border Security Force officer Manoj Barnwal told AFP that "the use of reptiles" was discussed in a February meeting with the Home Ministry

Countries in South Asia, home to a fifth of the world's population and some struggling economies, have unveiled a number of measures to tackle the energy crisis triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which has squeezed supplies and raised prices

Heavy rain and storms have killed at least 121 people over two weeks across Afghanistan and Pakistan, disaster officials in both countries said yesterday.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Afghanistan's ⁠Hindu Kush region on Friday

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing was elected president yesterday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, formalising his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government in a coup.