Pakistan's finance minister has cancelled a visit to Washington for spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, government officials said today, citing domestic political turmoil as the reason..Minister Ishaq Dar was scheduled to attend the meetings from April

Pakistan’s parliament yesterday rejected a Supreme Court order to conduct provincial snap polls, in the latest move in a power struggle between the government and the top court amid political and economic instability.

The United Nations told some 3,300 Afghan staff not to come to work in Afghanistan for the next two days after the Taliban authorities signalled on Tuesday that they would enforce a ban on Afghan women working for the world body.

"On the proposed trilateral hydropower cooperation among Bhutan, Bangladesh and India, both sides (India and Bhutan) expressed their commitment towards greater sub-regional cooperation, including in the energy sector which would lead to increased inter-linkages between the economies for mutual benefit of all stakeholders"

After the Taliban signaled the ban on Tuesday, the UN told nearly 3,300 of its staff members in Afghanistan not to come to work for the next 48 hours

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday named centrist politician and economic expert Prakash Sharan Mahat as finance minister, a presidential statement said, as the country tackles falling revenue collection and high interest rates.

Pakistan’s parliament has passed a new law to curtail the powers of the Supreme Court’s chief justice, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said yesterday, a move

Four policemen were killed by a roadside bomb as they scrambled to protect a police station under siege by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday

Pakistan’s National Assembly yesterday passed the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure), Bill 2023, which aims to deprive the office of the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) of powers to take suo motu notice in an individual capacity. The bill, presented by

Pakistan’s human rights commission yesterday rebuked feuding political parties for undermining democracy as the world’s fifth-most populous country battles an economic crisis.

A suicide attack on Monday not far from Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said

Myanmar's junta chief, flanked by tanks and missile launchers, vowed no let up in a crackdown on opponents and said Monday elections would be held, weeks after the military conceded it did not control enough territory to allow a vote.

Nepal has suspended three air traffic controllers and launched an investigation after two passenger planes nearly collided mid-air last week, officials said yesterday.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha was officially nominated yesterday for re-election as his party’s first candidate for the country’s next leader in polls set for May 14.

An anti-terrorism court in northwest Pakistan has convicted and sentenced a Muslim man to death after he was accused of posting blasphemous content in a WhatsApp group.

Sri Lanka’s president yesterday warned of more economic pain to come for the crisis-hit nation, with strict austerity measures needed to restore its ruined finances after an IMF bailout deal.

At least 13 people were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by a strong earthquake felt across thousands of kilometres, but the region yesterday appeared to have dodged the mass casualties usually associated with a tremor of such scale.

At least nine people were killed and 44 injured in northwest Pakistan by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck in neighbouring Afghanistan late on Tuesday, a Pakistani government official said

Pakistan’s parliament is set to meet in a special joint session today to “take important decisions” to enforce the state’s authority, media reported, in the midst of prolonged anti-government defiance by former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Former cricket star

Sri Lanka must not allow entrenched corruption to undermine a bailout for its bankrupt economy, the IMF said yesterday after signing off on a $3 billion loan for the crisis-hit nation.