Pakistan in talks with Khan’s party as protests loom
AFP, Islamabad
3 October 2026 • South Asia
Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead
AFP, Nuwakot
2 October 2026 • South Asia
Pak airstrikes kill 10 in Afghanistan
AFP, Kabul
2 October 2026 • South Asia
Japan tightens rules for foreigners wanting permanent residency
AFP, Tokyo, Japan
1 October 2026 • South Asia
Taliban govt says Pakistan strikes kill 4 civilians in Afghanistan
AFP, Afghanistan
25 September 2026 • South Asia
Pakistan confirms Afghan strikes after resident says Kandahar hit
AFP, Afghanistan
24 September 2026 • South Asia
2 more sisters of Imran Khan held
AFP, Islamabad
22 September 2026 • South Asia
Pakistan launches deadly strikes on Afghanistan
AFP, Kunar
22 September 2026 • South Asia

Pak ex-PM Imran Khan calls off talks with govt

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan called off reconciliatory talks with the government yesterday, a week after a court handed him a 14-year jail term on graft charges, his party’s chairman said.
23 January 2025

Pakistan drought dents winter harvest

A winter drought is ravaging crops in Pakistan’s breadbasket, farmers said yesterday, with the region parched by a 40 percent drop in rainfall.
23 January 2025

Land graft case: Imran handed 14-year jail term

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 14 years’ imprisonment in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.
17 January 2025

Scaling peaks and breaking barriers

The first Bangladeshi all-women winter expedition to Nepal's Langtang region concluded on January 11, marking a significant step for gender equality in adventure sports.
14 January 2025

Malala in Pakistan to attend girls edu meet

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan yesterday, as she attended a summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world that has been snubbed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
11 January 2025

3 Pakistani soldiers, 19 militants killed in NW clashes

Three soldiers and 19 militants were killed in the latest clashes in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region, the military said Tuesday.
7 January 2025

One killed in Pakistan as Kabul retaliates

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said yesterday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes.
28 December 2024

Pak unrest: Military court jails 60 more civilians

A Pakistani military court sentenced 60 civilians to 2–10 years in prison for attacks on military facilities after former prime minister Imran Khan’s 2023 arrest, the military’s media wing said yesterday.
26 December 2024

Pak air strikes kill 46 in Afghanistan

Pakistan air strikes in an eastern border region of Afghanistan killed 46 civilians, the Taliban government said yesterday.
25 December 2024

Pak Taliban kills 16 Pak soldiers

The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan yesterday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more.
21 December 2024

Pak military courts convict 25 PTI men

Pakistan military courts have convicted and sentenced 25 people for involvement in pro-Imran Khan unrest last year, the armed forces said yesterday, with the majority handed decade-long prison terms.
21 December 2024

Pakistan Taliban claim raid killing 16 soldiers

The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more
21 December 2024

Pakistan’s missile program is ‘emerging threat’

A senior White House official on Thursday said nuclear-armed Pakistan is developing long-range ballistic missile capabilities that eventually could allow it to strike targets well beyond South Asia, making it an “emerging threat” to the United States.
20 December 2024

Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 102 Rohingya refugees

Sri Lanka’s navy said yesterday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.
20 December 2024

Pak province aims to collect weapons to stem clashes

Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said yesterday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen in the historically lawless region said they would not give up their arms.
20 December 2024

Sri Lanka navy rescues boat of 100 Rohingya refugees

Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port
20 December 2024

Gunmen kill six Pak soldiers near Afghan border

Gunmen attacked a Pakistani army base near the border with Afghanistan and killed six soldiers, the army reported yesterday.
7 December 2024

Pakistan Unrest: Imran threatens civil disobedience movement

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement days after his party led a deadly protest march in Islamabad.
6 December 2024

Imran Khan booked over Rangers’ deaths in Islamabad

Imran Khan was booked in a murder case over the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle
3 December 2024

13 more killed in Pakistan

Sectarian feuding in northwest Pakistan killed 13 more people, a local government official said yesterday, as warring Sunnis and Shias defied repeated ceasefire orders in recent conflict claiming 124 lives.
30 November 2024