Soldier killed in roadside blast in NW Pakistan
Sep 13, 2020, at 03:34 pm
ISLAMABAD,/Xinhua:One soldier was killed in a roadside blast in Pakistan's northwest tribal district of North Waziristan, the Pakistani military said in a statement on Saturday evening.
Nepal resumes visa services for limited foreigners after one-month hiatus
Sep 13, 2020, at 03:14 pm
KATHMANDU/Xinhua: Nepal's Department of Immigration decided to resume all the visa services starting from Sunday after suspending the services over a month ago, a senior official of the department said.
Pakistan: Journalist arrested in Karachi for criticising Army, later released
Sep 13, 2020, at 01:58 am
Karachi/IBNS: Pakistani authorities have arrested a journalist here for criticising the country's Army on Friday, media reports said.
Pakistan: Karachi building fire leaves four dead
Sep 13, 2020, at 12:34 am
Karachi: At least four people were killed as a fire broke out at a three-storey building in Pakistan's Karachi city on Saturday.
Taliban spokesman says ceasefire in Afghanistan to happen when gov’t adopts Islamic system
Sep 12, 2020, at 11:51 pm
Doha/Sputnik: A lasting ceasefire in Afghanistan will be reached once the governmental system in the country becomes Islamic, Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman for the Taliban's political office, said on the sidelines of the ongoing peace talks in Doha on Saturday.
Pakistan: Woman cyclist Samar Khan alleges she faced harassment in Islamabad
Sep 12, 2020, at 03:55 pm
Islamabad: Highlighting the insecurity of women in Pakistan, award-winning cyclist Samar Khan, who is also the Goodwill Ambassador for World Wildlife Fund (WWF), said that she was harassed while cycling in Islamabad.
Sep 12, 2020, at 03:51 pm
London: The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) and Jammu Kashmir National Independent Alliance are planning to organize a demonstration in front of the Pakistan High Commission in London on Sept 14 to protest against the illegal detention of activist Tanveer Ahmad in Pakistan.
Mike Pompeo to hold separate meetings with Kabul, Taliban delegations in Doha : State Dept.
Sep 12, 2020, at 03:13 pm
Washington/Sputnik: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold on Saturday separate meetings with the delegations of the Afghan government and the Taliban Islamist movement on the sidelines of the intra-Afghan talks in Doha, the US Department of State said.
China never interferes in U.S. internal affairs: Chinese FM
Sep 12, 2020, at 03:09 pm
Moscow/Xinhua: China has never interfered in the internal affairs of the United States, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday at a press conference after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Bangladesh: Police recover severed human leg from dustbin in Dhaka
Sep 12, 2020, at 02:34 pm
Dhaka: Police on Friday recovered a severed human leg from a dustbin in Bangladesh capital city Dhaka.
Afghanistan: Blast rocks wedding ceremony in Khost, four killed
Sep 12, 2020, at 02:23 pm
Kabul: A motorcycle, which was embedded with explosive devices, rushed through a wedding ceremony in Khost province of Afghanistan and left at least four people killed.
Pakistan: Woman gang-raped in Lahore, 12 suspects arrested amid nationwide outrage
Sep 12, 2020, at 12:25 am
Lahore: Police have arrested 12 suspected people over the alleged gang-rape of a woman on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway in Pakistan's Punjab region, media reports said.
Old habits die hard: China's tryst with border disputes and expansionism
Sep 11, 2020, at 11:23 pm
Earlier in September, US President Donald Trump said the country was ready to help both India and China fix their border dispute as the two most populous nations engaged in activities deemed 'attempted transgression' by both New Delhi and Beijing.
Motorbike bombing at wedding party kills 4, wounds 8 in E Afghanistan
Sep 11, 2020, at 06:38 pm
Khost, Afghanistan/Xinhua: Four people were killed and eight others injured as a motorbike bomb struck a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province on Thursday, provincial police spokesman Haider Adel said Friday.
UN denounces Kabul attack targeting Afghan Vice President
Sep 11, 2020, at 06:30 pm
New York: The United Nations has strongly condemned Wednesday's attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, targeting the official convoy of the country's First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh.
Taliban kills 16 afghan servicemen in Nangarhar province: Source
Sep 11, 2020, at 06:19 pm
Kabul/Sputnik: The Taliban Islamist movement has attacked positions of the Afghan security forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving 16 servicemen dead and some more injured, a local source told Sputnik on Friday.
Bangladesh: Death toll in Narayanganj mosque blast touches 31
Sep 11, 2020, at 04:15 pm
Dhaka: The death toll due to the explosion of the air-conditioner in a mosque in Bangladesh's Narayanganj region has now touched 31, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Security officials rescue kidnapped 10-year-old boy
Sep 11, 2020, at 04:01 pm
Kabul: Security officials have rescued a 10-year-old who was kidnapped from Afghanistan's Injeel district in Herat province.
Sep 10, 2020, at 03:45 am
Beijing: A Uyghur doctor, who is currently in exile, has revealed that he was forced to perform operations on women in China as part of the country’s attempts to control its ethnic Turkic minority population.
PoK: People protest against construction of dams by China, Pakistan
Sep 10, 2020, at 03:31 am
The people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) are irked by the construction of two mega dams by China and Pakistan in the region.
Pakistan is moving from US towards China's sphere: Ayesha Siddiqa
Sep 10, 2020, at 02:43 am
Islamabad: A top defence analyst has said Pakistan is slowly drifting away from the US towards China as Beijing is the only hope for Islamabad for economic assistance.
Two Afghan police officers killed in Taliban attack in Helmand province
Sep 10, 2020, at 01:38 am
Kabul/Sputnik: At least two Afghan police officers were killed and two civilians were injured in a Taliban attack in the Nawa district of Helmand on Wednesday, a security source said.
Bangladesh registers 1,827 new COVID cases, 41 deaths
Sep 10, 2020, at 01:08 am
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh reported 1827 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours while 41 lives were lost in the same period.
Bangladesh: Boat capsizes, 10 dead
Sep 10, 2020, at 01:03 am
Dhaka/UNI: At least 10 bodies were recovered after a boat carrying dozens of people sank in the river of Gumai in Bangladesh's Netrokona district, some 158 km north of the capital Dhaka, on Wednesday.
Blasphemy charges: Pakistani court sentences Christian man to death
Sep 09, 2020, at 02:29 pm
Lahore: A Court in Pakistan's Lahore city on Tuesday sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed "blasphemy", media reports said.
Bangladesh AC explosion: Death toll touches 28
Sep 09, 2020, at 02:11 pm
Dhaka: The death toll in the air-conditioner blasts incident at a Narayanganj mosque in Bangladesh has reached 28 as another victim died on Tuesday, media reports said.
Poor conditions rife in Pakistani women’s prisons: Human Rights Watch
Sep 09, 2020, at 04:30 am
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Human Rights Ministry has issued a report that says women in prison face poor conditions and receive inadequate medical care, Human Rights Watch has said.
Sep 09, 2020, at 02:02 am
Beijing: A noted scholar has claimed that China’s communist regime embezzles the COVID-19 crisis to muzzle the voice of dissents in Xinjiang and Tibet.
Sri Lanka to replace brakes on faulty Chinese train compartments
Sep 08, 2020, at 11:20 pm
Colombo: The Sri Lankan Railway department has said the brakes on faulty Chinese train compartments will be replaced, media reports said.
Sep 08, 2020, at 06:15 pm
Thailand, a key ally of China, is slowly pushing back against Beijing and recently the country decided to not only postpone the procurement of two submarines from China but has also shelved the Chinese proposal for building a canal in the Bay of Bengal replacing it with its own project, media reports said.