Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan left for Moscow yesterday to push for the construction of a long-delayed, multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline to be built in

UN Security Council members China and Russia, as well as Serbia have continued supplying Myanmar’s junta with weapons used to attack civilians since last year’s coup, a UN rights expert said yesterday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday he would like to have a televised debate with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to resolve differences between the two neighbours.

Women working in Afghan government departments must cover up -- even with a blanket if necessary -- or they may lose their jobs, the Taliban’s religious police said yesterday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday he would like to have a televised debate with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, to resolve differences between the two neighbours.

The United Nations children’s agency would pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organisation said, with salaries unpaid for months as the country is plunged into economic crisis due to sanctions on the Taliban administration.

Pakistan’s government has introduced a new cybercrime law that could see social media users jailed for up to five years for posting “fake news” about the military, judiciary or public officials.

The Taliban are creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, the official tasked with overseeing the military’s transformation said yesterday.

Myanmar’s military government has criticised calls for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ special envoy to the conflict-torn country to meet bodies that oppose last year’s coup, which the junta has declared as “terrorist” groups.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla today said his country and Bangladesh “are working on finalising agreements on rivers other than the Ganges water-sharing and exchanging best practices in areas of river embankments and addressing salinity of rivers”.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday admitted that the government made a mistake by allowing PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for medical treatment.

Sri Lanka’s High Court yesterday acquitted two top officials accused of “crimes against humanity” for failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people. 

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over an Indian girl, who was detained by Tentulia police yesterday near the border for trespassing into Bangladesh, after a company commander-level flag meeting with India's Border Security force (BSF) this afternoon. 

Pakistan’s military has stepped up operations along the Afghan border in recent weeks after a spate of militant attacks that has dashed any hope the frontier might see more peace and stability after the end of the war in Afghanistan.

A special Southeast Asian envoy to the crisis in Myanmar yesterday said he was seeking to visit the country next month and appealed to its military junta to give its blessing for him to talk with a shadow government it has labelled “terrorists”.

Liton Bhumij’s family in Bangladesh had begun to lose hope of finding the 25-year-old with special needs, when an activist found him at a tea garden in Assam’s Cachar -- years after Liton accidentally entered Indian territory in 2017.

Fortify Rights has urged ASEAN to support the establishment of a UN Security Council-mandated global embargo on the sale of weapons and military technology to Myanmar.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday dispelled the impression that Pakistan was more inclined towards China than any other country, clarifying that the country’s strategic direction was to “maintain relations with everyone”.

A mob lynched a man because he had allegedly burnt pages of the Holy Quran in central Pakistan and dozens of people have been arrested, police and officials said on Sunday.

Sri Lanka’s president banned strikes in the health and electricity sectors yesterday as trade union action that has crippled state-run hospitals entered its sixth day.