Bangladesh tribunal indicts ex-PM Sheikh Hasina for crimes against humanity during 2024 student stir
Jul 10, 2025, at 05:35 pm
Dhaka: A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday formally indicted ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of crimes against humanity linked to last year’s mass student uprising that claimed hundreds of lives, news agency AP reported.
Jul 09, 2025, at 04:41 pm
Ousted former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina had authorised the deadly crackdown on students during the July-August Uprising last year, which eventually led to her collapse, a leaked phone call has revealed.
Decomposed body of Pakistani actress recovered from Karachi flat
Jul 09, 2025, at 02:43 pm
The decomposed body of a 32-year-old Pakistani actress was found inside a flat in Karachi city, media reports said.
Global call grows to hold China accountable for '709' crackdown
Jul 08, 2025, at 07:36 pm
Ten years after China launched a sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers, Amnesty International, a prominent rights group, is urging immediate global action to hold the Chinese government accountable for the repression.
Pakistani court sends Mahrang, other BYC activists on 10-day physical remand
Jul 08, 2025, at 06:33 pm
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Pakistan on Tuesday sent Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) chief Dr Mahrang Baloch and other organisers of the group to 10 days police custody.
Marco Rubio, Obama wish Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday
Jul 07, 2025, at 05:45 pm
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday wished Dalai Lama on his 90th birthday and said he continues to inspire people by embodying a message of unity, peace, and compassion.
Jul 05, 2025, at 06:33 pm
Pakistani authorities have seized 13 illegally kept lions and arrested five individuals for violating wildlife regulations.
Microsoft shuts down Pakistani operations after 25 years, ex-President Alvi expresses concern
Jul 05, 2025, at 10:19 am
Tech giant Microsoft on Friday announced shutting down its office in Pakistan, ending its 25-year journey in the country.
Jul 04, 2025, at 11:59 pm
Pakistani politician Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has claimed Islamabad does not know where Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar is, adding that Islamabad would be "happy to" arrest him if India can provide information on his whereabouts in his country.
New UN report shows shelter and safety elude Afghan women returnees from Iran and Pakistan
Jul 04, 2025, at 03:03 pm
As returns of Afghan refugees and those living in refugee-like conditions from Iran and Pakistan increase – many forcibly – women and girls are arriving in a country where their rights, safety, and futures face severe threats, according to a new UN-led report.
Afghanistan's Taliban regime rejects its involvement in disappearance of Afghan-American citizen
Jul 04, 2025, at 02:50 pm
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has denied involvement in the disappearance of Afghan-American citizen Mahmood Shah Habibi.
Jul 04, 2025, at 12:55 pm
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's close aide Rana Sanullah has said his country had only "30-45 seconds" to determine, whether India's BrahMos attack during Operation Sindoor carried a nuclear warhead, and respond.
Pakistan: Blast in Bajaur leaves five, including an assistant commissioner, dead
Jul 02, 2025, at 06:53 pm
At least five people, including an assistant commissioner, were killed and 11 others were injured after a blast rocked a government vehicle in Pakistan's Bajaur district on Wednesday.
Contempt case: Court sentences former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina to six months in prison
Jul 02, 2025, at 03:10 pm
A court on Wednesday sentenced Bangladesh's ousted former PM Sheikh Hasina to six months in prison in a contempt of court case, media reports said.
Two Chinese nationals charged with espionage, attempting to recruit spies in US Navy
Jul 02, 2025, at 02:43 pm
Two Chinese nationals have been charged in the USA for acting as agents of the Chinese government without prior notification to the Attorney General, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
Pakistan: Teen killed, two terrorists eliminated as government offices attacked in Balochistan
Jul 01, 2025, at 06:54 pm
Pakistani security forces on Wednesday eliminated two terrorists in the Mastung district of Balochistan on Tuesday.
Afghanistan: Surging returns from Iran overwhelm fragile support systems, warns UN
Jul 01, 2025, at 03:05 pm
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on Afghanistan’s overstretched support systems.
Jun 30, 2025, at 06:30 pm
Maulana Hidayatur Rehman, the Jamaat-i-Islami’s Balochistan emir, has announced a long march from Quetta city to Islamabad on July 25 to protest against the federal government for “depriving the people of the province of their due rights”.
Pakistan, China working on proposal to form new bloc that can potentially replace SAARC
Jun 30, 2025, at 02:51 pm
Pakistan and China, the all-weather allies, are working on a proposal to form a regional organisation that will potentially replace the now defunct South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which also included India, media reports said.
Taliban rejects Pakistan's claim that India is using Afghanistan's soil to operate against it
Jun 29, 2025, at 11:53 pm
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has rejected Pakistan's claim that India is using its territory to operate against Islamabad.
Pakistan: Two terrorists killed in Balochistan
Jun 29, 2025, at 10:12 pm
Pakistani security forces on Sunday killed two terrorists and apprehended two others during an operation conducted in the Balochistan region, media reports said.
Pakistan finalises $3.7 billion loan deals with China
Jun 29, 2025, at 10:04 pm
China has signed a $3.7 billion equivalent commercial loan deal with Pakistan, which has pulled the South Asian country's foreign exchange reserves back to the double-digits from the critically low level of $8.9 billion last week, media reports said.
Hindu woman raped in Bangladesh, BNP leader among five arrested
Jun 29, 2025, at 03:50 pm
Police have arrested five people, including a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, for raping a Hindu woman in Bangladesh’s Comilla district on Saturday night, media reports said.
Jun 28, 2025, at 05:36 pm
Dipankar Das, owner of the Bangladesh-based bookstore Baatighar, was briefly detained by the Chattogram's Kotwali police over a case filed against him in connection with the July-August mass uprising in 2024, which led to the fall of the former PM Sheikh Hasina-led government.
Jun 28, 2025, at 04:50 pm
Pakistan is re-establishing the terror camps and terrorist launchpads that were destroyed by the Indian Armed Forces during Operation Sindoor last month.
Pakistan: 13 soldiers killed in suicide blast in KP
Jun 28, 2025, at 03:20 pm
At least 13 soldiers died and several others were injured after a suicide bomb blast rocked Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, close to the Afghanistan border, on Saturday, media reports said.
Jun 27, 2025, at 02:02 pm
The Indian government has criticised Bangladesh for the demolition of the makeshift Durga Temple in Dhaka's Khilket area.
Bangladesh: Hearing in ousted PM Hasina's crimes against humanity case scheduled on July 1
Jun 25, 2025, at 10:32 am
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 will hear on framing charges against ousted former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina in a case filed over crimes against humanity committed during the July-August uprising last year.
Pakistan: Banned BLA claims responsibility for killing tribal leader Mir Attaur Rehman Mengal
Jun 24, 2025, at 06:39 pm
The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) outfit has claimed responsibility for killing tribal leader Mir Attaur Rehman Mengal in Pakistan's Khuzdar district.
Unknown gunmen burn down government offices, attack the Levies post in Pakistan
Jun 23, 2025, at 07:15 pm
Unknown gunmen burned down several government offices, attacked a Levies post and blocked the Quetta-Karachi Highway in Khadkocha and Kirdgab areas of Mastung district in Pakistan, media reports said.