Pakistan: Doctors demonstrated in Karachi over non-payment of salaries
Aug 24, 2025, at 11:59 pm
The doctors of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), one of the largest public healthcare facility under the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) in Pakistan, recently demonstrated over non-payment of salaries, media reports said.
Aug 24, 2025, at 11:27 pm
Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Sunday met Bangladeshi interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on his visit to Dhaka, when he stressed the need to revitalise regional cooperation through the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc).
Pakistan: Man arrested in Saddar after he chops off his wife's leg over minor dispute
Aug 24, 2025, at 09:52 pm
A Pakistani man has been arrested in Saddar region of Pakistan after he chopped off his wife’s leg over a minor dispute, media reports said.
Ex-Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe admitted to hospital a day after he was jailed
Aug 24, 2025, at 06:31 pm
Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been admitted to a hospital, a day after he was charged with misusing government funds for foreign travel.
Karachi witnesses massive protests over 50-hour-long power outage
Aug 23, 2025, at 07:02 pm
Pakistan's Karachi city witnessed massive protests in recent times after several areas remained without power following heavy rains on August 19.
Pakistan-Bangladesh bond: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrives in Dhaka, scheduled to meet top leaders
Aug 23, 2025, at 05:10 pm
Pakistani foreign minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar arrived in Dhaka on Saturday, marking the close bond shared between the two neighbours.
Bridge collapses in China, 12 dead
Aug 22, 2025, at 05:19 pm
At least 12 people died, and four remain missing after a steel cable snapped during bridge construction in northwest China's Qinghai Province on Friday, media reports said.
Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested over alleged fund misuse
Aug 22, 2025, at 03:26 pm
Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Friday arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe over alleged misuse of state funds.
Pakistan: Unidentified armed men kill four people in Panjgur
Aug 20, 2025, at 06:17 pm
At least four people died and another was injured after allegedly unidentified armed men opened fire on a house in Paksitan's Panjgur town on Monday.
Aug 20, 2025, at 05:46 pm
A Bangladesh court on Wednesday showed actor Siddiqur Rahman arrested in a case filed over the death of Parvez Bepary, who was killed during the quota reform protest in Badda region on July 19 last year.
Deadly bus crash in Afghanistan: 76 deportees from Iran killed
Aug 20, 2025, at 05:17 pm
A large number of Afghan people, who were recently deported from Iran, were among those killed after a bus in which they were travelling crashed and caught fire in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Pakistan: HRCP report shows alarming spike in violence against minorities
Aug 20, 2025, at 04:37 pm
The participants in the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday showed a rise in violence against religious minorities last year.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit Pakistan for Strategic Dialogue after India trip
Aug 19, 2025, at 06:52 pm
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will arrive in Pakistan on August 21 to attend the sixth Pakistan-China Strategic Dialogue, after concluding his trip to India.
You will live in this country without fear: Bangladesh Army chief tells Hindus on Janmasthami
Aug 19, 2025, at 05:24 pm
Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman recently joined the Janmasthami celebration in Bangladesh when he said there should not be any kind of discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, race, or community.
Flash flood, severe rain leaves 300 people dead in Pakistan
Aug 16, 2025, at 06:59 pm
The severe rain and resultant flash flood in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have left 324 people dead, with the majority of the deaths reported from Buner, media reports said.
BLA rejects US govt's decision to designate Majeed Brigade a foreign terrorist organisation
Aug 16, 2025, at 04:29 pm
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has rejected the US government's decision to designate the Majeed Brigade as a foreign terrorist organisation.
Pakistan: 300 booked, 25 held after mob attack Ahmadi worship places in Faisalabad
Aug 16, 2025, at 10:02 am
Police have registered two cases against 300 people on terrorism charges after they allegedly set an Ahmadi community worship place on fire in Pakistan's Faisalabad city on Wednesday.
UN Women marks four years since Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
Aug 15, 2025, at 02:08 pm
UN Women Afghanistan Special Representative Susan Ferguson addressed the widescale erosion of human rights of women in the country in a briefing to reporters in New York on Thursday, just ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Taliban takeover.
Pakistan: Three killed, 60 injured in aerial firing during Independence Day celebrations in Karachi
Aug 14, 2025, at 02:36 pm
Karachi/IBNS: Three people were killed and over 60 people injured in an aerial firing during the celebrations of Independence Day in Pakistan's Karachi, media reports said.
Pakistan: Balochistan government night travel in the province
Aug 13, 2025, at 06:13 pm
Pakistan's Balochistan government has imposed a ban on the movement of public transport vehicles during the night in the province, media reports said.
Pakistan: Terrorists blow up gas pipeline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Aug 13, 2025, at 05:42 pm
Suspected terrorists blew up a gas pipeline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district in Pakistan, which resulted in the suspension of gas supply to the Punjab region, media reports said.
Aug 13, 2025, at 05:01 pm
PM Shehbaz Sharif has threatened India on the Indus River issue and said it could not snatch “even one drop” of water belonging to Pakistan.
EFSAS chief calls Asim Munir's nuclear attack remark 'irresponsible'
Aug 13, 2025, at 03:11 pm
Kashmiri political activist and Director of the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), Junaid Qureshi, has labelled the nuclear threat remark by Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir as 'irresponsible'.
Pakistan: Minor house help tortured to death in Gujranwala
Aug 12, 2025, at 07:02 pm
A 13-year-old domestic worker was allegedly tortured to death by her employers in Pakistan's Gujranwala city, media reports said on Tuesday.
Nine Pakistani soldiers killed in Balochistan attack
Aug 12, 2025, at 06:32 pm
At least nine Pakistani soldiers died and six others were injured in an attack in the South Asian country's restive southwestern Balochistan province, media reports said.
Bangladesh signs MoUs with Malaysia amid deteriorating ties with India
Aug 12, 2025, at 05:27 pm
Bangladesh and Malaysia have signed five Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and three Exchange of Notes in diverse areas of cooperation on the first day of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus's visit to the country, media reports said.
Pakistan: 12-year-old boy killed in mortar shell explosion
Aug 12, 2025, at 04:55 pm
A 12-year-old boy was killed and two others were injured after a mortar shell exploded close to the Pakistan-Iran border on Monday.
Aug 12, 2025, at 01:45 pm
A former Pentagon official has criticised Pakistan army chief Asim Munir for his recent nuclear rhetoric and compared him with 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden.
Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir now threatens to target Mukesh Ambani's Jamnagar refinery
Aug 12, 2025, at 11:04 am
Tampa/IBNS: After nuke threat to India, now Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir has threatened to target billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led RIL's refinery in Gujarat's Jamnagar, media reports said.
US designates Balochistan Liberation Army as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Aug 12, 2025, at 10:01 am
The United States on Monday designated the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its alias, the Majeed Brigade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).