India was on high alert yesterday fearing a Pakistani backlash after its military carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC).

Islamabad is open to using tactical devices — a reference to tactical nuclear weapons that Pakistan is believed to possess — against India if it feels its safety is threatened, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in an interview to Pakistani TV channel SAMAA.

Indian Army's "surgical strikes" on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control has sent a message to Pakistan to not take India for

Villages along Punjab's border with Pakistan are put on high alert after Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on the LoC.

India’s ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party and main opposition Congress hail the armed forces’ surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the de facto border with Pakistan.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a key choice in the coming weeks about who should run Pakistan's powerful military, one

Nepal government says that a conducive environment be created soon to ensure participation of all member states in the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam says the decision to boycott Islamabad Saarc summit is purely Bangladesh's own decision.

Asian Development Bank will give $1.5 billion to Bangladesh to extend its rail link and bring the tourism hub district of Cox’s Bazar inside the network.

x In a historic move, Pakistan's parliament has passed the much-delayed bill to enable the country's minority Hindu community

Pakistan will treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked the Indus Water Treaty regulating river flows between the two nations, Pakistan's top foreign official says.

Six top Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh activists, including four wanted in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case, are arrested from West Bengal and Assam in India.

India, the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, will ratify the Paris climate change pact next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, bringing the deal a step closer to reality.

Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.

India signs a deal Friday to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets for 7.9 billion euros ($8.8 billion), France's biggest ever such sale, as it seeks to bolster its military against an increasingly assertive China.

At least six militants of Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers (KPLT) are killed and an army man is injured in an encounter with security forces inside a forest in northeastern state of Assam, India, according to the local media reports.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lashed out at India over escalating tensions in Kashmir, telling the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that New Delhi was an obstacle to peace.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session, says his country wants peace with India but maintained it is "not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue".

For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday's attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan, the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.

At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple -- her only ticket out of poverty -- as the government moves to close India's multi-million dollar surrogacy industry.