Pakistan seeing sharp rise in sex crimes, says Imran Khan

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that sexual offences have risen sharply in the country.
3 January 2022

Sri Lanka in dire straits

Sri Lanka’s food prices rose by a record 22.1 percent in December, official figures showed yesterday, as the country struggles to finance urgent imports to tackle an acute shortage of essentials.
1 January 2022

Bangladesh, India resume Padma water level measurement

Bangladesh and India have resumed monitoring the water level of the Ganges and Padma rivers at different points under the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty 1996.
1 January 2022

Parents selling children shows desperation of destitute Afghans

In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.
31 December 2021

EU for arms embargo on Myanmar

The European Union yesterday called for an international arms embargo on Myanmar’s junta and for toughening its own sanctions following last week’s massacre of more than 30 people.
30 December 2021

Myanmar court jails Suu  Kyi aides for sedition

A Myanmar junta court yesterday sentenced two close aides of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to two years in jail for sedition, a legal
30 December 2021

Don’t ‘punish’ ex-employees

The Taliban’s supreme leader has ordered fighters not to punish members of Afghanistan’s former regime for past “crimes”, days after a video of an army commander being beaten went viral on social media.
30 December 2021

Myanmar Massacre: Two Save the Children staffers killed

Save the Children yesterday confirmed that two of its staff were killed in a Christmas Eve massacre blamed on junta troops that left the charred remains of more than 30 people on a highway in eastern Myanmar.
28 December 2021

Afghan women protest against Taliban killings of former soldiers

A crowd of women marched through the Afghan capital yesterday, accusing Taliban authorities of covertly killing soldiers who served the former US-backed regime.
28 December 2021

Myanmar court delays Suu Kyi verdict

A Myanmar junta court yesterday again postponed giving its verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial for illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, a source with knowledge of the case said.
27 December 2021

‘Horrified’ UN calls for new year truce

The new United Nations special envoy to Myanmar yesterday said she was “deeply concerned” by escalating violence in the country and called for a new year ceasefire between the military and its opponents.
27 December 2021

Sri Lanka shuts three foreign missions as dollar crisis worsens

Sri Lanka yesterday announced the closure of three overseas diplomatic missions in a bid to save foreign currency reserves, as the country’s
27 December 2021

Taliban force curb on women travel

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.
26 December 2021

Afghan women must be escorted by male relatives while travelling: Taliban

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.
26 December 2021

Taliban govt scraps Afghan election commission

The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission, a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration, a spokesman for the Islamist government said yesterday.
25 December 2021

30 killed, ‘bodies burnt’ Say reports; rights groups condemn brutal killings

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar’s conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group.
25 December 2021

Myanmar junta 'rejected' Indian foreign secretary's request to meet Suu Kyi

Myanmar's military junta did not allow a meeting between visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Indian media reported today.
24 December 2021

Passport Office Gate: Suicide bomber killed in Kabul

A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports.
23 December 2021

Suicide bomb attack at Kabul passport office, several injured

A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports.
23 December 2021

Taliban in Afghanistan disrupt Pakistan army from fencing int'l border

Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan disrupted the erecting of a security fence by the Pakistani military along the border between the two countries, Afghan officials said on Wednesday.
23 December 2021