Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday laid the foundation stone for a corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur — the final resting place of Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev — to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Gurdaspur district to facilitate visa-free movement of Indian Sikh pilgrims.

Allies of Sri Lanka's embattled President Maithripala Sirisena boycotted parliament yesterday as the country drifted into a second month of political turmoil.

The Maldives top court yesterday overturned a terrorism conviction against the country's first democratically elected leader Mohamed Nasheed, who fled into exile after being sentenced to 13 years behind bars.

Sri Lanka's ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday initiated moves to take control of state finances as a power struggle with the country's president entered a second month.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday urged Pakistan to take action against those responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks as Washington offered a new reward of $5 million for helping secure their capture.

Eight people were killed yesterday in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, capping off one of the deadliest weeks this year in a region already suffering its worst bloodshed in a decade.

Udhav Thackeray, the president of right-wing political party Shiv Sena in India's Maharashtra, yesterday said BJP will not be able to return to power in next year's general elections if it failed to fulfil its commitment of building the "Rama Temple" in Ayodhya.

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday reignited the power struggle that has crippled Sri Lanka's government for more than a month, vowing never to reappoint arch-rival Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister.

At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned yesterday after their bus plunged into a canal in India, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest roads.

Pakistan authorities launched a crackdown yesterday against hundreds of supporters of a hardline cleric whose party recently paralysed the country with violent protests over the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy.

Four people were killed yesterday when gunmen armed with hand grenades and a suicide vest stormed the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi, officials said, with the attack claimed by a separatist group which branded Beijing "an oppressor".

A mobile app launched by the Pakistan government to allow the public to voice their grievances over creaking infrastructure has been inundated with responses.

Sri Lanka's deposed prime minister secured control of a key committee in parliament yesterday, dealing a blow to the country's president in the latest twist in a month-long political crisis.

An explosion ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the country's volatile eastern Khost province as Friday prayers were drawing to a close, killing at least 26 soldiers and wounding 57, the military said.

Indian troops killed six separatist militants in a gunbattle in the disputed region of Kashmir yesterday, the army said, taking the death toll for the year to the highest in nearly a decade.

Sri Lankan police yesterday reversed a decision sacking a top detective investigating a string of high-profile gruesome cases involving the rich and powerful, following intense protests. The island nation has been politically paralysed since October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena controversially sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

An explosion at an ammunition dump in India killed six people yesterday, police said, underscoring concerns over the country's handling of military equipment. Staff were disposing of Russian anti-aircraft shells out of production since 2014 when a box was dropped and exploded, the Times of India reported.

A man hurled chilli powder at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal outside his office here yesterday. The attacker, identified as Anil Kumar, has been taken into custody, officials said.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has helped farmers of Uttar Pradesh by paying off their loans. The 76-year-old actor paid off loans of 1398 farmers from the state, that amounted to over Rs 4.05 crore.

An Indian soldier and four terrorists are killed today in an encounter between ultras and security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir state in India, officials say.