Welcome back to ‘old Pakistan’

Over a month after the no-confidence motion was tabled against Prime Minister Imran Khan on March 8, members of the National Assembly finally cast their votes to make Imran Khan the first prime minister in the country’s history to be ousted through a vote of no confidence.
10 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Sri Lanka nearly out of medicine

Sri Lanka’s doctors warned yesterday they were nearly out of life-saving medicines and said the island nation’s economic crisis threatened a worse death toll than the coronavirus pandemic.
10 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Thailand sends Myanmar refugees back despite the threat of death

The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank on the Thai border, trapped between a country that does not want them and a country whose military could kill them.
9 April 2022, 19:03 PM

‘These leaders must go’

Tens of thousands marched on beleaguered Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office yesterday, in the biggest protest to date over the country’s dire economic and political crisis.
9 April 2022, 18:00 PM

North Korean nukes could ‘eliminate’ South

North Korea will use its nuclear weapons to “eliminate” South Korea’s army in the event they launch a pre-emptive strike, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un said yesterday. 
5 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Hong Kong leader to leave office

Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam announced yesterday that she will step down in June, ending a divisive term that saw democracy protests squashed and strict pandemic curbs plunge the business hub into international isolation.
4 April 2022, 18:00 PM

China to pursue Ukraine peace in its own way

China has offered the European Union assurances that it would seek peace in Ukraine but said this would be on its own terms, deflecting pressure for a tougher stance towards Russia.
2 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Rights groups criticises India

The deportation of a 36-year-old Rohingya woman by Indian authorities and fresh detention of Rohingya refugees in Indian-administered Kashmir has been criticised by human rights groups, who called New Delhi’s forcible return of refugees a “cruel disregard for human life and international law”.
2 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Blasts kill 5 in western Afghan city

At least five people were killed and 20 more wounded when two bombs exploded in quick succession in the western Afghan city of Herat on Friday, officials said.
2 April 2022, 18:00 PM

No-trust motion moved in House

Pakistan’s parliament took up a no-confidence motion moved by opposition lawmakers yesterday in a bid to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan, pushing the South Asian nation closer to political turmoil.
28 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Taliban ban Afghan women flying alone

The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country’s new rulers since seizing power.
28 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Philippines on alert as volcano indicating continued eruption near capital

A small but restive volcano near the Philippine capital Manila ejected two more plumes on Sunday, indicating continued eruption and prompting authorities to urge residents to stay out of harm's way.
27 March 2022, 11:48 AM

Myanmar junta vows to ‘annihilate’ coup opponents on crackdown anniversary

Myanmar's junta will "annihilate" coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said Sunday (March 27) as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests.
27 March 2022, 05:46 AM

N Korea has ‘likely more in store’: US

North Korea likely has “more in store” after successfully test-firing its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, a top US official said Friday, as Washington called for tougher international sanctions at the UN Security Council.
26 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Sri Lankan newspapers suspend print editions over lack of paper

Two major Sri Lanka newspapers are suspending their print editions because of a lack of paper, their owner said yesterday, the latest casualties in the island’s economic crisis.
25 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Rohingya genocide: US sanctions 5 individuals, 5 entities connected to Myanmar military

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated five individuals and five entities connected to Myanmar military regime.
25 March 2022, 16:36 PM

OIC Council unanimously adopts resolution on Rohingya

The OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad today unanimously adopted a resolution on the “Situation of the Rohingya Muslim Community in Myanmar” to keep the momentum in exerting continuous pressure on Myanmar authorities.
23 March 2022, 15:26 PM

Myanmar junta rejects US terming military operations as Rohingya genocide

Myanmar's junta on Tuesday said it "categorically rejects" a United States declaration that its armed forces committed genocide against the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority during a military crackdown five years ago.
22 March 2022, 16:14 PM

UN Member States should acknowledge Rohingya genocide in Myanmar: Fortify Rights

United Nations Member States should publicly acknowledge the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar and ensure the UN Security Council refers the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Fortify Rights today.
21 March 2022, 19:07 PM

Attacks against Rohingya were ‘systematic’ with intent to destroy the Muslim minority: Blinken

The United States formally determined that Myanmar's army committed genocide and crimes against humanity in its violence against the Rohingya minority, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, warning that as long as the junta was in power nobody in the country would be safe.
21 March 2022, 16:01 PM