Pakistan vows to defend ally Saudi Arabia ‘to any extent’
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India, Pakistan summon diplomats after naval collision
17 September 2026
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Nepal flood reconstruction bill to be $4.78 billion: Foreign ministry
11 September 2026
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Nepal hydropower tunnel: ‘Miracle’ as 2 pulled alive after 9 days
5 September 2026
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Nepal flood losses estimated at $2.56 billion
4 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
How engineers in a WhatsApp group are guiding Nepal's tunnel rescue efforts
4 September 2026
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Myanmar vows safe returns for ‘its citizens’ from Malaysia
4 September 2026
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Nepal’s deadly floods halt electricity exports to Bangladesh
3 September 2026
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Deadly flash floods: Nepal demands compensation from US, China, India
3 September 2026
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Sri Lanka-US agents bust Pakistan drug network
3 September 2026
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Car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan kills 12, wounds dozens
At least 12 civilians were killed, including three children, and dozens injured Tuesday evening after two explosive-laden vehicles were detonated at an army compound in northwest Pakistan, officials said, with the attack quickly claimed by a militant group
5 March 2025
Woman suicide bomber targets Pakistan troops
A woman suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Pakistani paramilitary troops in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan yesterday, killing at least one soldier and injuring four others, officials said.
3 March 2025
Pakistan NGO chief critical of election has home sealed
Pakistan authorities have sealed the home of an NGO chief who authored a report alleging widespread rigging in national elections last year, he told AFP on Saturday.
22 February 2025
Northwest Pakistan: Militants kill 4 members of security forces
Gunmen killed four members of the Pakistani security forces and their driver in an attack in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police told AFP yesterday.
2 February 2025
Sri Lanka records highest deflation in 65 years
Sri Lanka’s consumer prices fell by 4.0 percent in January, the highest deflation rate since July 1960, official data showed yesterday, as the South Asian nation emerges from its worst economic meltdown.
31 January 2025
Pak outlaws disinfo with 3yr jail term
Pakistan criminalised online disinformation yesterday, passing legislation that enshrines punishments of up to three years in prison, a decision journalists say is designed to crack down on dissent.
28 January 2025
Pakistan army foils militant attempt to take post
Militants in an explosive-laden vehicle were thwarted in their attempt to overrun a Pakistani security post near the border with Afghanistan, the army said yesterday.
28 January 2025
Sri Lanka revokes power purchase deal with Adani
Sri Lanka has revoked a power purchase agreement with Indian conglomerate Adani Group following allegations of corruption, energy ministry sources in Colombo said on Friday..President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's administration opened probes into the company's local projects after billionair
24 January 2025
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