Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah unseated former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his own constituency, Election Commission data showed Saturday, with his party also seemingly headed for a landslide victory nationally.

Balendra Shah looked set to win by a landslide in parliamentary polls, but with counting still far to go

A three-year-old party led by rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah looked set to sweep Nepal’s general election yesterday, trouncing established rivals in a result analysts likened to a “tsunami”.

Counting for the House of Representatives continues

Shah's rise challenges Nepal's traditional political elite

Nearly six months after a wave of unprecedented youth-led protests and the deaths of 77 people forced Nepal’s then prime minister to quit, people began voting yesterday in a general election that will choose a new parliament in the Himalayan nation.

Here are five key dates to explain the dramatic political developments in the Himalayan nation of 30 million people

Afghan and Pakistani troops battled along their border, Afghan residents and officials told AFP yesterday, with the fighting coming alongside multiple strikes including the former US air base at Bagram.

Fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban military entered its third day yesterday as foreign governments expressed increasing concern and called for urgent talks.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers had said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan bombed their forces in major cities

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Afghan forces killed 55 Pakistani soldiers and captured several others, while putting the death toll among Afghan troops at 13

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong?

Both sides report heavy losses, issue conflicting tolls

Airstrikes, retaliation and the TTP factor expose the collapse of a once-calculated relationship between Islamabad and the Taliban

Pakistan security sources said strikes involved air and ground attacks against Taliban posts, headquarters, and ammunition depots

Oli hopes to regain control of parliament in the March 5 elections

Opposition continues protest, wants family doctor on board

Militants killed five police officers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, as the South Asian nation grapples with a rising wave of violence.

A court-appointed lawyer has claimed that jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has been left with just 15 percent vision in his right eye after authorities allegedly ignored his complaints for three months, adding another layer of contention over his imprisonment.

58-year-old was allegedly born in Bangladesh and was trafficked and sold in Pakistan some 35 years ago