Pakistan’s military has stepped up operations along the Afghan border in recent weeks after a spate of militant attacks that has dashed any hope the frontier might see more peace and stability after the end of the war in Afghanistan.

A special Southeast Asian envoy to the crisis in Myanmar yesterday said he was seeking to visit the country next month and appealed to its military junta to give its blessing for him to talk with a shadow government it has labelled “terrorists”.

Liton Bhumij’s family in Bangladesh had begun to lose hope of finding the 25-year-old with special needs, when an activist found him at a tea garden in Assam’s Cachar -- years after Liton accidentally entered Indian territory in 2017.

Fortify Rights has urged ASEAN to support the establishment of a UN Security Council-mandated global embargo on the sale of weapons and military technology to Myanmar.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday dispelled the impression that Pakistan was more inclined towards China than any other country, clarifying that the country’s strategic direction was to “maintain relations with everyone”.

A mob lynched a man because he had allegedly burnt pages of the Holy Quran in central Pakistan and dozens of people have been arrested, police and officials said on Sunday.

Sri Lanka’s president banned strikes in the health and electricity sectors yesterday as trade union action that has crippled state-run hospitals entered its sixth day.

Two international journalists who were on an assignment for the UN refugee agency have been detained in the Afghan capital, the UNHCR said yesterday.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said yesterday.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said Wednesday.

South Korean Hyundai Motor Company today regretted the offence caused to Indians by “unauthorised Kashmir-related social media posts” by its distributor in Pakistan and said the action was against firm’s global policy.

South Korea's Hyundai Motor faced calls on Monday for a boycott of its cars from Indians incensed over a tweet from the account of its Pakistan partner that expressed solidarity for the people of the disputed territory of Kashmir.

At least 19 people were killed by an avalanche on Monday while crossing a remote mountain pass from Afghanistan to Pakistan, a Taliban official said.

Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned to a junta court yesterday after skipping a previous hearing because she felt unwell, a source with

Sri Lanka marked its independence day yesterday with an appeal to its diaspora to send money home to overcome the island’s worsening economic

The United Nations has demanded the Taliban provide information on two more women activists allegedly detained by the group this week from Kabul

The United Nations has about $135 million in the bank in Afghanistan but is unable to use it because the Taliban-run central bank cannot convert it to the afghani currency, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.

At least 10 miners died in Afghanistan after being trapped underground when a coal mine collapsed in the northern province of Baghlan, an official said yesterday.

Insurgents in the Pakistani province of Balochistan attacked two military bases overnight, killing seven soldiers while losing 13 of their own men, the army said