UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday urged the world to “stop the madness” of climate change as he visited Himalayan regions struggling from rapidly melting glaciers to witness the devastating impact of the phenomenon.

Sri Lanka has granted 48 hours for a Chinese vessel to conduct marine research off the island’s west coast under supervision, the foreign ministry said yesterday, despite Indian concerns that it could be a spy ship.

The Maldives has started negotiations with India to remove its military presence, President-elect Mohamed Muizzu said in an interview published by Bloomberg News yesterday, as New Delhi and Beijing both vie for influence in the region.

A Pakistani court yesterday declined bail to detained former prime minister Imran Khan in a case in which he has been indicted on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer said.

A Pakistani court indicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his deputy in an Official Secrets Act case yesterday, his party said, in another blow for the jailed former cricket star ahead of a general election expected in January.

Pakistan’s three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home yesterday from four years of self-imposed exile in London, aiming to kick start his party’s campaign for next year’s election and targeting former premier Imran Khan as the biggest rival.

A Pakistan court granted bail yesterday to former prime minister and graft convict Nawaz Sharif, removing the threat of arrest when he returns to the country from self-imposed exile this weekend.

A shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the latest to hit a region where entire villages have been flattened and over 1,000 killed by a series of tremors this month

Gunmen killed six labourers in an overnight raid in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said yesterday, in the region’s latest bout of violence.

Afghanistan's disaster management ministry on Friday revised downward the death toll from multiple earthquakes to around 1,000 from an earlier figure of over 2,400, a spokesman said

At least seven people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide blast tore through a minority Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan today, the Taliban government said.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said he is “stronger and fitter than ever” since being jailed two months ago, according to a statement released by his family yesterday.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Wednesday, hitting an area where more than 2,000 people were killed after a series of similar tremors on the weekend

A Pakistan's special court formed under the Official Secrets Act on Monday decided to indict former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case on October 17

The Supreme Court in military-ruled Myanmar has rejected appeals against six corruption convictions for the jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to media reports.

Powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors in years in the quake-prone mountainous country

Desperate rescuers scrabbled through the night searching for survivors of an earthquake that flattened homes in western Afghanistan, with the death toll of 120 expected to rise Sunday as the extent of the disaster becomes clear

The death toll from an earthquake in western Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to around 120 with 1,000 more injured, disaster relief authorities said, as desperate families dug into the night to free relatives trapped in the rubble

The president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has marked his victory with a pledge to end the foreign military presence in his small but strategically placed atoll nation.

Pakistan police busted an organ trafficking ring run by a disgraced doctor and a motor mechanic, who conducted at least 328 illegal kidney transplants, authorities said