Two international journalists who were on an assignment for the UN refugee agency have been detained in the Afghan capital, the UNHCR said yesterday.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said yesterday.

A pregnant Pakistani woman had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who said it would guarantee she gave birth to a boy, a doctor said Wednesday.

South Korean Hyundai Motor Company today regretted the offence caused to Indians by “unauthorised Kashmir-related social media posts” by its distributor in Pakistan and said the action was against firm’s global policy.

South Korea's Hyundai Motor faced calls on Monday for a boycott of its cars from Indians incensed over a tweet from the account of its Pakistan partner that expressed solidarity for the people of the disputed territory of Kashmir.

At least 19 people were killed by an avalanche on Monday while crossing a remote mountain pass from Afghanistan to Pakistan, a Taliban official said.

Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned to a junta court yesterday after skipping a previous hearing because she felt unwell, a source with

Sri Lanka marked its independence day yesterday with an appeal to its diaspora to send money home to overcome the island’s worsening economic

The United Nations has demanded the Taliban provide information on two more women activists allegedly detained by the group this week from Kabul

The United Nations has about $135 million in the bank in Afghanistan but is unable to use it because the Taliban-run central bank cannot convert it to the afghani currency, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.

At least 10 miners died in Afghanistan after being trapped underground when a coal mine collapsed in the northern province of Baghlan, an official said yesterday.

Insurgents in the Pakistani province of Balochistan attacked two military bases overnight, killing seven soldiers while losing 13 of their own men, the army said

International banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups are allowed to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without fear of breaching sanctions on the Taliban, the United States said on Wednesday.

The UN Security Council called Wednesday (Feb 2) for an "immediate cessation of all forms of violence" in Myanmar and expressed hope that a special envoy would be allowed to travel there to mediate the crisis.

Myanmar’s shadow government, set up after last year’s military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority.

Afghanistan’s public universities opened yesterday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.

Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex.

Sri Lanka’s navy yesterday said it had arrested 21 Indian fishermen after a confrontation with two trawlers poaching in the island’s territorial waters.

The Taliban have arrested two Afghan journalists working for a local news channel, rights groups and the United Nations said yesterday, weeks after two women activists went missing.