At least 23 Afghan security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on a joint US-Afghan base in southwestern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as fighting continues amid a pause in peace talks between the insurgents and American negotiators.

Three days after Indian war planes hit a terror camp in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi drives home his government’s tough posture in dealing with terrorism and said “India will longer be helpless in the wake of terror.”

Pakistan's foreign minister says he would not attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Abu Dhabi this weekend because his Indian counterpart had been invited to the event.

With India and Pakistan standing on the brink of war this week, several false videos, pictures and messages circulated widely on social media, sparking anger and heightening tension in both countries.

Thousands of air travellers worldwide were left stranded yesterday after Pakistan closed its airspace in response to escalating tensions with India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday asked Indians to "stand as a wall" with anger boiling over Pakistan's capture of a pilot as a crisis escalates between the nuclear-armed rivals.

The United States, Britain and France proposed on Wednesday that the United Nations Security Council blacklist the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad, which said it attacked an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir killing forty.

A day after Indian and Pakistani fighter jets were engaged in aerial combat, Indian Ministry of Defence officials say airspace intrusion by Pakistan jets was an attempt to attack military installations.

Pakistan will return a captured pilot "as a peace gesture" to India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan says, amid efforts by the United States to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets.

British Secretary of State for Foreign and Common wealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt telephones Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

The United States, Britain and France have moved a fresh proposal in the United Nations Security Council to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

India has said Pakistan shelled and fired small arms on Indian army’s forward posts along the de facto border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.

A string of violent escalations have pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict, sparking global alarm and calls for restraint between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Pakistan's state media yesterday published a video showing an Indian fighter pilot who was captured after his jet was shot down when it entered Pakistani airspace in Kashmir.

A man accused by Sri Lanka's president of orchestrating a plot to assassinate him was cleared of any wrongdoing by a court in Colombo yesterday.

Pakistan and India say they have shot down each other's warplanes, in a dramatically escalating confrontation that has fuelled concerns of a catastrophic conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Pakistan too has said it has no intention of the situation to escalate amidst fire exchange and tensions with India along the Kashmir border.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday asked the country's armed forces and people to "remain prepared for all eventualities" after the Indian Air Force allegedly destroyed a terrorist camp across the Line of Control.

Pakistan's top civilian and military leaders rejects India's comments that it had struck "terror camps" inside Pakistan, vowing to prove wrong India's claims and warning that it will retaliate to Indian aggression.

The Immigration Department arrests 17 people, including a Bangladesh national, in a drive at a massage parlour on Jalan Dato Tahwil Azar in Malaysia.